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The Chile reader : history, culture, politics /
Perfect for the student or traveler, The Chile Reader covers more than 500 years of Chilean history, with an emphasis on the past half-century. Its many selections include interviews, travel diaries, diplomatic cables, cartoons, and photographs.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Latin America readers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- No better land in the whole wide world / Pedro de Valdivia
- The poetry of place / Gabriela Mistral
- Chile's "crazy geography" / Benjamín Subercaseaux
- Catastrophe and national character / Rolando Mellafe
- Deforestation in Chile : an early report / Claudio Gay
- "Catastrophe in Sewell" / Pablo Neruda
- A call to conservationism in Chile / Rafael Elizalde MacClure
- In defense of the forests / Ricardo Carrere
- Pollution and politics in greater Santiago / Saar Van Hauwermeiren
- The Inca meet the Mapuche / Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales
- A conquistador pleads his case / Pedro de Valdivia, Letter to the King
- Exalting the noble savage / Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana
- Debating Indian slavery / Melchor Calderón and Diego de Rosales
- "To sell, give, donate, trade, or exchange" / Certification of Indian Enslavement, 1657
- Portrait of late Colonial Santiago / Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche.
- From war to diplomacy / The Summit of Tapihue
- "The Insolence of peons" / Mine owners of Copiapó
- A revolutionary journalist / Camilo Henríquez, Fundamental notions of the rights of peoples
- An Englishwoman observes the new nation / Maria Graham, Journal of a residence in Chile in 1822
- The authoritarian republic / Diego Portales
- A political catechism / Francisco Bilbao, The American Gospel
- A literature of its own / Alberto Blest Gana, Martín Rivas
- The university and the nation / Andrés Bello, address delivered at the inauguration of the University of Chile
- A Polish scientist among the Mapuche / Ignacio Domeyko, Araucanía and its People
- German immigrants in the South / Vicente Pérez Rosales, Times gone by
- "A peculiar race of men" : gold, copper, and sweat / Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary.
- How to run an hacienda / José Manuel Balmaceda, The landowner's handbook
- A Franco-Chilean in the Gold Rush / Pedro Isidoro Combet, Memories of California
- The worst misery
- Letters to the Santiago orphanage
- A race of vagabonds
- Augusto Orrego Luco, the social question
- Race, nation, and the "roto chileno" / Nicolás Palacios
- The war of the Pacific, 1879-1893 / Alejandro Fierro
- The pacification of the Araucanía / Pascual Coña
- Gallery : Chile and its "others"
- Balmaceda and the civil war of 1891, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Alessandri
- The politics of reform, the manifesto of the Democratic party to the Chilean people, 1888
- The Catholic Church and the social question / 1893 pastoral letter of Archbishop Mariano Casanova
- Workers' movements and the birth of the Chilean left / Luis Emilio Recabarren.
- Nitrate workers and state violence : the massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique / Elias Lafertte
- Women, work, and labor politics / Esther Valdés de Díaz
- The Lion of Tarapacá / Arturo Alessandri
- The decay of Chile's parliamentary republic / Alberto Edwards
- Military intervention and the end of the parliamentary republic / 1924 military coup pronunciamiento
- Poetic creationism / Vicente Huidobro
- "Mother of Chile" and poet of Chilenidad / Gabriela Mistral
- Industrialization and Chile's Arab immigrants / interview with Juan Yarur and the Arab community in Chile
- Social change and the crisis of the Catholic Church / Alberto Hurtado, "Is Chile a Catholic Country?"
- "I told myself I must find work, I cannot continue here" / interview with Elba Bravo, domestic service activist.
- Fundamental theoretical principles of the Socialist Party / The Chilean Socialist Party, 1933
- Chile's public health crisis / Salvador Allende
- The Popular Front / Pedro Aguirre Cerda
- Rural workers, landowners, and the politics of compromise / The League of Poor Campesinos of Las Cabras and the Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura
- Chile's "frustrated development" / Aníbal Pinto
- The Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women (MEMCH) / interview with Elena Caffarena
- Autobiography and poems / Pablo Neruda
- Miners' strikes and the demise of the Popular Front / U.S. State Department cables.
- "Our constitution and our laws contain iniquitous precepts" / Elena Caffarena
- Rural-urban migration and the founding of a Santiago shantytown / Juan Lemuñir
- Klein-Sacks : Chile's first experiment with neo-liberalism (image)
- Between capitalism and communism / Eduardo Frei, The Mission of Social Christianity in Chile
- Property and production / a brochure promoting Christian Democracy's agrarian reform
- The Christian left / Jacques Chonchol and Julio Silva Solar, Toward a Communitarian World
- The new song movement / interview with Inti-Illimani
- Lyrics of the new song movement / Violeta Parra and Victor Jara
- Gallery : The election of 1970
- The United States and the election of Salvador Allende / de-classified U.S. government documents
- A Mapuche land takeover / Peasants and landowners of Rucalán
- "We take the factory" / Workers at the Yarur Cotton Mill
- "Informing the people" / President Salvador Allende Gossens.
- "Women's power" against Allende / interview with Carmen Saenz
- "So that Chile can renew its march forward" / Chilean Business and Professional Associations' Demands
- "The Demands of the people" / Movement of the Revolutionary Left
- A treasonous history / A group of retired generals and admirals
- United States policy and covert action against Allende / The Church Committee, 1975
- "Everyone knows what is going to happen" / Radomiro Tomic to General Carlos Prats
- "These are my final words" / President Salvador Allende Gossens
- The military takes Santiago / Peter Winn
- The new military regime justifies intervention / Government Junta of the Armed Forces and Carabineros of Chile
- Pinochet's caravan of death / Patricia Verdugo
- Women and torture / The National Commission on Political Detention and Torture
- Transnationalization of terror : Operation Condor / US Federal Bureau of Investigations
- The 1980 Constitution / Jaime Guzmán
- Shantytown protest / The Pobladores speak
- The Chilean Women 's Movement / Julieta Kirkwood
- The kids of Barrio Alto / Alberto Fuguet
- Sexuality and soccer / Pedro Lemebel
- Dictatorship as revolution / Joaquín Lavín and Ernesto Tironi
- The whole world was watching / The observer group of the Latin American Studies.
- Justice "to the degree possible" / Patricio Aylwin Azócar
- "The custody of the eyes" / Diamela Eltit
- Legislating gender equality / Pilar Molina Armas
- Gallery : social movements in transition
- The credit-card citizen / Tomás Moulin, Chile Today: Anatomy of a Myth
- "Chile's greatest addition to the Spanish language" / John Brennan and Alvaro Taboada
- "I never looked for power" / Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
- Historians critique Pinochet's "Anti-history" / eleven Chilean historians (also signed by 73 other scholars)
- The Mapuche nation and the Chilean nation / Elicura Chihuailaf
- Growth with equity / Alejandro Foxley
- The politics of concertación / Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt
- "Chile : a Catholic country?" / Antonio Delfau, S.J.
- "To never again live it, to never again deny it" / President Ricardo Lagos, The Valech report
- The Chilean army after Pinochet / Army General and Commander in Chief Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa
- La Presidenta de Chile, President Michelle Bachelet, 2006- 2010
- Gallery : bicentennial embraces.