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I Die with My Country
The Paraguayan War (1864?70) was the most extensive and profound interstate war ever fought in South America. It directly involved the four countries of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and took the lives of hundreds of thousands, combatants and noncombatants alike. While the war still stirs emotions on the southern continent, until today few scholars from outside the region have taken on the daunting task of analyzing the conflict. In this compilation of ten essays, historians from Canada, the United States, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay address its many tragic complexities. Each scholar examines a particular facet of the war, including military mobilization, home-front activities, the war?s effects on political culture, war photography, draft resistance, race issues, state formation, and the role of women in the war. The editors? introduction provides a balance to the many perspectives collected here while simultaneously integrating them into a comprehensible whole, thus making the book a compelling read for social historians and military buffs alike.
The Mosque
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Post-Truth
In an era where misinformation proliferates across various channels, this collection of essays emerges as a vital resource for understanding and addressing this complex phenomenon. Stemming from the International Congress of Post-truth held in Granada, this anthology features contributions from scholars and practitioners spanning communication, politics, technology, philosophy, history, law, and education. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, the collection navigates the intricacies of post-truth, exploring its sociocultural, technological, and epistemological dimensions. With chapters organized into distinct sections, readers delve into the intersections and differences between a wide range of disciplines. Assembled with expertise and rigor, this anthology provides insights into the challenges of our post-truth age and underscores the importance of collaborative efforts in promoting truth-oriented discourse. Aimed at researchers, policymakers, educators, and media professionals, this volume serves as a cornerstone for ongoing dialogue and action in confronting the complexities of post-truth in today’s society.
Behind Spanish American Footlights
Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with a fascinating array of information, sparkles with wit while giving the reader a fact-filled course in the history of Spanish American drama that he can get nowhere else. This is the first book in English ever to consider the theatre of all the Spanish American countries. Even in Spanish, the pioneer study that covers the whole field was also written by Jones. Jones sees the history of a nation in the history of its drama. Pre-Columbian Indian...
The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration
The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration provides a wide survey of theatre and performance practices related to the experience of global movements, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Given the largest number of people ever (over one hundred million) suffering from forced displacement today, much of the book centres around the topic of refuge and exile and the role of theatre in addressing these issues. The book is structured in six sections, the first of which is dedicated to the major theoretical concepts related to the field of theatre and migration including exile, refuge, displacement, asylum seeking, colonialism, human rights, globalization, and nomadism. The subsequent sections are devoted to several dozen case studies across various geographies and time periods that highlight, describe and analyse different theatre practices related to migration. The volume serves as a prestigious reference work to help theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators navigate the complex field of theatre and migration.
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Volume 1 of a comprehensive three-volume history of Latin American literature (including Brazilian): the only work of its kind.
