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Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
A Cultural History of Latin America
The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History on literature, music, and the visual arts in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays explore: literature, music, and art from c. 1820 to 1870 and from 1870 to c. 1920; Latin American fiction from the regionalist novel between the Wars to the post-War New Novel, from the 'Boom' to the 'Post-Boom'; twentieth-century Latin American poetry; indigenous literatures and culture in the twentieth century; twentieth-century Latin American music; architecture and art in twentieth-century Latin America, and the history of cinema in Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.
The Cambridge History of Latin America
This volume looks at Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.
Cruelty and Utopia
This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities -- the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America. Buenos Aires, So Paulo, Mexico City, Caracas, Havana, Santiago, Rio, Tijuana, and Quito are just some of the subjects of this diverse collection. How have desires to create modern societies shaped these cities, leading to both architectural masterworks (by the likes of Luis Barragn, Juan O'Gorman, Lcio Costa, Roberto Burle Marx, Carlos Ral Villanueva, and Lina Bo Bardi) and the most shocking favelas? How have they grappled with concepts of national identity, their colonial history, and the cont...
Designing Pan-America
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the countries of Latin America as plantations, farms, and mines to be accessed by new shipping lines and railroads. As their desire to dominate commerce and trade in the Western Hemisphere grew, these U.S. interests promoted the concept of "Pan-Americanism" to link the United States and Latin America and calle...
A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas
A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world. The book combines the latest scholarship about the indigenous past with an environmental history approach covering issues of climate, geology, and biology, so that you'll see the relationship between urban and rural in a new, more inclusive way. Author Clare Cardinal-Pett tells the story chronologically, from the earliest-known human migrations into the Americas to the 1930s to reveal information and insights that w...
É Preciso Ouvir o Homem [Nu]: Um Estudo sobre a Poética de Flávio de Carvalho
Carolina Lyra aborda a obra do arquiteto e artista de vanguarda brasileiro Flávio de Carvalho (1899-1973), a partir de duas perspectivas diversas. Naquela central, apresenta sua proposta urbanística "A Cidade do Homem Nu" e relaciona-a à arquitetura e cenografia, inserindo-a num mesmo quadro de referências – projetos e experiências do artista a partir de seu vínculo com a Antropofagia. Noutra, discorre especificamente sobre sua formação, sua inserção no meio como arquiteto com seus primeiros projetos e sua relação com Oswald de Andrade e sua obra. Esta formulação central representa uma maneira diferente de combinar esses aspectos da atuação do artista. O modo como se entrelaçam essas abordagens faz com que a obra revele o que a autora indica ser, nas próprias palavras de Flávio de Carvalho, seu poder de sugestão. Rui Moreira Leite Arquiteto e historiador da arte, curador das retrospectivas do artista em 1983 e 2010, organizador da reedição revista e ampliada do livro de impressões de viagem, de Flávio de Carvalho, Os ossos do mundo.
