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Antiquities. --- America --- America. --- History --- Antiquities

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« Une vision renouvelée des conquistadors et de leur épopée qui a changé le monde. Les conquistadors, premiers explorateurs et colonisateurs de l'Amérique latine, sont devenus un sujet de légende et de cauchemars. A leur époque, ils ont été glorifiés en aventurier héroïques, propageant la culture chrétienne et contribuant à bâtir un empire comme le monde n'en avait encore jamais vu, pour le compte de l'empereur Charles Quint et de ses successeurs. Aujourd'hui, à l'inverse, ils sont devenus l'emblème de la cruauté et de l'exploitation. Ces hommes, parmi les premiers génocidaires, ont décimé les civilisations pluriséculaires des Aztèques et des Incas et commis des atrocités sans nom dans leur quête d'or et de gloire. L'historien mexicain Fernando Cervantes taille dans les couches sédimentées par le temps du mythe et de la fiction, démêle des idées reçues devenues des pseudo-vérités et immerge le lecteur dans le monde de l'impérialisme du Moyen Âge tardif. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Conquerors America. --- Conquerors --- America --- Discovery and exploration

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Aborda a judicialização de questões que envolvem políticas públicas, conflitos políticos e valores morais e políticos fundamentais, como um dos fenômenos mais significativos das democracias que atravessaram o século XX em direção ao século XXI. Sob o viés dos estudos da ciência política, os autores apresentam uma variedade de perspectivas sociojurídicas e empíricas sobre temas cruciais. São objetos de análise o papel dos tribunais e a ampla gama de instituições que fazem parte do sistema de justiça, como promotores e defensores públicos, além de outros atores, dispositivos e movimentos que atuam nesse contexto em que se articulam as decisões legais. A leitura instiga uma reflexão sobre o papel da justiça e das instituições judiciárias na América Latina, perante os desafios econômicos, sociais e políticos ou diante de contextos nocivos a direitos e práticas democráticas.

Constitutional history. --- Democracy --- Latin America. --- Latin America

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It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. Drawing upon multiple comic book series, this collection includes Captain America's very first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which Steve Rogers, the newly resurrected hero of World War II, searches to find his place in a new and unfamiliar world. As the contents reveal, the transformations of this American icon thus mark parallel transformations in the nation itself.

Captain America --- Super-héros.

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"Central America is a region defined primarily by its geographical configuration as a canal-friendly isthmus, and its three-century history as the Spanish Kingdom of Guatemala. Having gained independence in 1821, the Kingdom broke up into the nations of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica after two turbulent decades as a federated republic. Political instability and violence, poverty and inequality, ethnic strife, military rule, and a historic economic dependence on the export of coffee and bananas marked the region's history. Owing both to its isthmian geography and habitual political strife, Central America became the most frequent target of US government intervention. Intense US political, economic and military action both preceded and accompanied the revolutionary civil wars of the 1970s and '80s. Devastating in their human costs, they delivered modest political reforms but world-record levels of criminal violence tied to drug trafficking. With British Honduras' independence from Great Britain in 1981 as Belize, and the acquisition by Panama of full sovereignty over its territory in 1999, Central America increasingly defined itself as region of seven countries. The Oxford Handbook of Central American History offers critical analyses of major themes in the historiography of this seven-nation region of Latin America. Essays written by leading scholars of Central America engage both the neophyte's search for basic orientation and context, and the experienced scholar's interest in evaluative critiques of the historical literature. Individual chapters interpret the histories of each of the seven countries, but most focus on themes that cut across national boundaries, beginning with the history of the region's extraordinarily diverse natural environment, and continuing with the indigenous peoples, the Spanish conquest and colonial rule, and the independence process. Other chapters interpret economic history, US relations, the armed forces, the Cold War, religion and literature, illuminating Central America's regional coherence within Latin America while emphasizing its diversity within and across national boundaries"--

Central America --- History.