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Author : Robert Southey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Tale of Paraguay written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gimlette
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307806529
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig written by John Gimlette and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.” Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book–equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide–breaches the boundaries of this isolated land,” and illuminates a little-understood place and its people. It is a wonderfully animated telling of Paraguay's story: of cannibals, Jesuits, and sixteenth-century Anabaptists; of Victorian Australian socialists and talented smugglers; of dictators and their mad mistresses; bloody wars and Utopian settlements; and of lives transplanted from Japan, Britain, Poland, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, and the United States. The author travels from the insular cities and towns of the east, along ghostly trails through the countryside, to reach the Gran Chaco of the west: the “green hell” covering almost two-thirds of the country, where 4 percent of the population coexists–more or very-much-less peacefully–with a vast array of exotic wildlife that includes jaguars, prehistoric lungfish, and their more recently evolved distant cousins, the great fighting river fish. Gimlette visits with Mennonites and the indigenas, arms dealers and real-estate tycoons, shopkeepers, government bureaucrats and, of course, Nazis. Filled with bizarre incident, fascinating anecdote, and richly evocative detail, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a brilliant description of a country of eccentricity and contradiction, of beguilingly individualistic men and women, and of unexpected and extraordinary beauty. It is a vivid, often riotous, always fascinating, journey.
Author : Susan Hood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481430955
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Ada's Violin written by Susan Hood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A town built on a landfill. A community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a vision. An ingenious idea.
Author : Marisa Palacios Knox
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003855547
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America written by Marisa Palacios Knox and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, as well as their ancient past, inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate, as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell’s Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and James Mill's "Emancipation of Spanish America."
Author : William F. Jaenike
Publisher : Kirk House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Robes in Paraguay written by William F. Jaenike and published by Kirk House Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slice of 17th and 18th century western history is a saga of love, savage violence, and betrayal that reads like fiction. While it is centered on a famous Roman Catholic order, its international and religious scope makes it of interest to armchair historians of all beliefs including Protestants, Jews, agnostics and secular humanists. In colonial South America the Jesuits established missions among the Guarani. As the Portuguese and Spanish slavers descended on Paraguay, the Jesuits sought to protect these stone-age Indians in their missions. Their resistance to the colonists? attacks contributed to the political problems of the church with Catholic monarchs back in Europe. As a consequence, the monarchs pressured a frightened pope to abolish the Jesuit order. In the long, tortured history of European colonization of the Americas, these Jesuit ?Black Robes? in Paraguay stood out as a breed apart, even from their fellow Jesuits elsewhere. Leaders of the anti-Catholic, anti-Jesuit Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Raynal rallied to the side of these extraordinary Paraguay missionaries. Raynal wrote that never has so much good been done for mankind with so little evil. Ironically, the ?heretic? monarchs of Russia and Prussia invited hundreds of the former Jesuits to run their colleges. In doing so, they inadvertently saved these outcasts to become the nucleus around which a reinvigorated papacy would re-establish the Jesuit order forty years after its abolition.
Author : Marc André Bernier
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442663499
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas written by Marc André Bernier and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain’s American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a study that examines the full range of that work in a comparative perspective. Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers the first comprehensive examination of such writings and the role they played in solidifying images of the Americas. The collection also provides a much-needed re-examination of the work of the Jesuits in relation to Enlightenment ideals and the modern social sciences and humanities – two systems of thought that have in the past appeared radically opposed, but which are brought together here under the rubric of modern ethnographic knowledge. Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways.
Author : Eloise Hanner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935925415
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Posted in Paraguay written by Eloise Hanner and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their late forties, Eloise and Chuck Hanner decided they wanted to do something new and challenging for the second half of their lives. To the amazement of their friends and family, they walked away from their stock-brokerage careers and joined the Peace Corps--again. Twenty-five years before, they had gone to Afghanistan as volunteers and had loved it. They had thought it would be fun to do it again when they were older. But, Eloise and Chuck discover that it's one thing to join the Peace Corps as carefree college graduates and quite another to go as middle-aged business professions, obligated to family and accustomed to stateside amenities. Hanner's humorous and insightful tale will take you on a tropical journey to the middle of South America--to a small village called General Artigas, where life delivers unexpected adventures, adversities and friendships.
Author : Robert Southey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Southey written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book The Eclectic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Corinne Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135019339
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Travel and Ethics written by Corinne Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form’s parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?
Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040247083
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838 Vol 4 written by Tim Fulford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to any reappraisal of Southey’s mid to late career, is 'Roderick'. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey’s wider oeuvre. The four-volume edition also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index.
Author : Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748641610
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826 written by Rebecca Cole Heinowitz and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination.
Author : John Hoyt Williams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292770170
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800–1870 written by John Hoyt Williams and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1979-08-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then came the terrible War of the Triple Alliance, and by 1870 Paraguay had virtually been destroyed. John Hoyt Williams re-creates the era’s people, places, and events in rich detail and a vigorous style, but this is much more than a mere narrative. His archival research in Paraguay and several other countries enables him to offer new facts and interpretations, correct a number of misapprehensions, and explode a few myths. He also provides the clearest, most objective portraits available of the three extraordinary men who ruled Paraguay during this time: Dr. José Gaspar de Francia, “El Supremo”; Carlos Antonio López, “the Corpulent Despot”; and López’s flamboyant son Francisco Solano López. Discussions of social, economic, and cultural conditions round out a masterly account of a remarkable historical period.
Author : David Simpson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922367
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger written by David Simpson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are “different” has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. In Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger, David Simpson locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from antiquity to today. Simpson shows that debates about strangers loomed large in the French Republic of the 1790s, resulting in heated discourse that weighed who was to be welcomed and who was to be proscribed as dangerous. Placing this debate in the context of classical, biblical, and other later writings, he identifies a persistent difficulty in controlling the play between the despised and the desired. He examines the stranger as found in the works of Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and Southey, as well as in depictions of the betrayals of hospitality in the literature of slavery and exploration—as in Mungo Park's Travels and Stedman's Narrative—and portrayals of strange women in de Staël, Rousseau, and Burney. Contributing to a rich strain of thinking about the stranger that includes interventions by Ricoeur and Derrida, Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger reveals the complex history of encounters with alien figures and our continued struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown.
Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783487409030
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Poetical Works written by Robert Southey and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Southey
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Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The poetical works written by Southey and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
