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EL DOLOR PARAGUAYO - Y lo que son los yerbales THE PARAGUAYAN PAIN - And what yerba mate plantations are
ISBN 978-987-614-213-7 2010 Pages: 144 15 x 21 cm CDD 980 Historia de América Latina
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PRELIMINARY STUDY: Osvaldo Bayer The paraguayan pain and What yerba mate plantations are, were first published in Montevideo, short after the death of their author, the Spanish anarchist Rafael Barrett. During his short stay in America he became a revolutionary, wrote a dozen of unforgettable books and founded a literary style. A style considered to be brilliant by the likes of Augusto Roa Bastos and Jorge Luis Borges. This unique edition of Barrett’s two great books has the added value of Osvaldo Bayer’s essay, especially made for the occasion. “This work has deeply moved me, and I need to say it and to write it -confesses Bayer-. Barrett’s wisdom invades us, showing to us the very images of unfairness, the perfidy of a system that divides human beings between those who hold power, those who are subdued and those who resist.” Author: RAFAEL BARRETT Born in Spain in 1876, arrived to Argentina in 1903 and one year later to Paraguay. A militant anarchist, he fought against poverty and unfairness and, in the meantime, he managed to write a handful of unparaleled books. “Barrett is the most brilliant intellectual of the European generation to put a foot on Argentine and Paraguayan soil”, as writer and historian Osvaldo Bayer says about him in the study especially written for this edition.
HISTORIA ECOLOGICA DE IBEROAMERICA - De los Mayas al Quijote A HISTORIC REVIEW OF THE HISPANIC AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT - From the Mayas to Don Quixote
ISBN 987-1181-45-0 2006 Pages: 240, 18 x 25 cm CDD 577098 Iberoamericana
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This book narrates the conflict between nature and society and its social consequences in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, from the Mayas to Cervantes. History and ecology go together. In Europe, from the cities, housing, food and plagues during the Middle Age; woodlands and farming and deforestation; the matter of water and transhumant cattle in Cervantes’ Spain. In America, references go from the irrigated lands of Teotihuacan and the Maya environmental crisis, to the giant stone heads in Easter Island. The bison’s culture and solar urbanism in North America. The conquest of Central America and its ecological changes. Slaver farms and the Portuguese Empire islands. An analysis based upon the notion of symbiosis and shared evolution between human societies and ecosystems. A historical review of the destruction of the environment and to the Darwinian concept of evolution, where the strongest ones prevail with the subsequent domination of men over nature. Author: ANTONIO ELIO BRAILOVSKY Political Economy graduate from Buenos Aires University (UBA), he is an outstanding figure in Argentine ecology. His professional commitment to the environmental studies has been expressed both in teaching, on public duty and in the writing of many books, some of them emblematic. Current lecturer at UBA and Belgrano University, he has also been constituent conventional, general director of the Ecology Commission at Buenos Aires’ legislative body and assistant ombudsman with regard to Environment and Urbanism.
FUNDADORES DE LA IZQUIERDA LATINOAMERICANA FOUNDERS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN LEFTIST Salvador Allende, Che Guevara, José Carlos Mariátegui, José Martí, Augusto Sandino, Luis Carlos Prestes, Camilo Torres, Rafael Barrett, Luis Emilio Recabarren, Raúl Sendic, Farabundo Martí, Emiliano Zapata.
ISBN 978-987-614-077-5 2008 Pages: 320 15 x 21 cm CDD 320098 Political Sciences
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A compilation that joins together an account of the lives of the twelve key characters of Latin American Leftist: from the sensible poet José Martí to the Comandante Che Guevara and the Chilean Salvador Allende, passing through José Carlos Mariátegui, Augusto Sandino, Luis Carlos Prestes, Camilo Torres, Rafael Barrett, Luis Emilio Recabarren, Raúl Sendic, Farabundo Martí and Emiliano Zapata. All of them were founders of something. Ideas, political parties, people’s alliances, trade unions, armies, armed groups, agrarian leagues, newspapers and magazines. And all of them are remembered by somebody at some corner of the continent. Common people, next door neighbours, peasants, workers, students, intellectuals, people from the Motherland. Author: CLAUDIA DUBKIN (COMPILATION): Capital Intelectual summoned a qualified team of journalists (Luis Sicilia, Hernán Brienza, Cristina Noble, Catriel Etcheverri, Sergio Góngora y Daniel González) to face an unprecedented challenge: to reunite the Founders of Latin American Left in the same collection.
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