Book Description
Geared toward advanced beginners, these highlights from poetry, plays, and stories by noted Spanish-language writers include works by Gabriela Mistral, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Lope de Vega.
Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0486121771
Geared toward advanced beginners, these highlights from poetry, plays, and stories by noted Spanish-language writers include works by Gabriela Mistral, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Lope de Vega.
Author : Albert A. Nofi
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 1997-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780938289579
The Spanish American War of 1898 is often viewed as a disjointed series of colorful episodes; young Americans who would later become famous, fighting a Spanish colonial army putting up a token resistance. Military commentator and historian Albert A. Nofi presents the war as a coherent military narrative, showing the confluence of the American command's Civil War experience and recent developments in technology. Serious attention is also given to the Spanish forces, the army of an empire in decline, but well-equipped and tactically sophisticated.Detailed coverage is given of both American and Spanish aims, assumptions and strategy. The author's colorful narrative is supplemented by 50 illustrations, most of which have not appeared in print since the era of the war.Specially commissioned maps highlight the most tactically significant land and naval engagements, such as the Spanish defense of El Caney and the Spanish fleet's dramatic but futile attempt to break out of Santiago harbor.Military operations are placed in the context of a growing American nation in a wider world, 35 years after the Civil War. The Spanish American War features a detailed treatment of the war in Puerto Rico. This theater was under the command of Indian fighter Nelson A. Miles and included some of the best tactical maneuvering of the war. The Puerto Rican aspect has not been covered in detail in modern works.Albert Nofi has made use of works covering the Spanish that have not been widely used in English-language works, as well as American eyewitness accounts that have not been examined in nearly a century.
Author : Ernesto Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Spanish language
ISBN :
Author : Ernesto Nelson
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Descubre la riqueza cultural de América Latina con «Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader» de Ernesto Nelson Embárcate en un viaje literario a través de América Latina con la destacada antología de Ernesto Nelson. «Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader» es una colección esencial que reúne las voces más influyentes y las obras más representativas de la literatura hispanoamericana, proporcionando una visión amplia y profunda de su diversidad cultural y literaria. Sumérgete en los relatos y poemas de autores icónicos como José Martí, Rubén Darío y Gabriela Mistral, cuyas obras capturan el espíritu y las experiencias de sus respectivos países. Desde el modernismo hasta el realismo mágico, esta antología abarca una variedad de estilos y movimientos literarios, ofreciendo a los lectores una comprensión completa de la evolución de la literatura en América Latina. Ernesto Nelson, con su aguda selección y comentarios esclarecedores, guía a los lectores a través de los temas y motivos recurrentes que caracterizan la literatura hispanoamericana. Explorando temas como la identidad, la política, la naturaleza y el mestizaje, Nelson proporciona un contexto valioso que enriquece la apreciación de cada obra incluida. El tono del libro es accesible y educativo, ideal tanto para estudiantes como para aficionados a la literatura que buscan profundizar en la riqueza cultural de América Latina. La recepción crítica ha sido favorable, destacando la habilidad de Nelson para seleccionar textos que no solo son representativos, sino también profundamente conmovedores y significativos. En comparación con otras antologías, «The Spanish American Reader» se distingue por su enfoque inclusivo y su capacidad para presentar una imagen completa de la literatura hispanoamericana. Cada selección está cuidadosamente escogida para mostrar la variedad y la profundidad de la producción literaria de la región, haciendo de esta antología una herramienta invaluable tanto para el estudio académico como para el disfrute personal. A nivel personal, esta colección resuena por su capacidad para transportar al lector a través de diferentes épocas y paisajes de América Latina, permitiendo una conexión profunda con las voces y las historias que han dado forma a la identidad cultural de la región. La pasión de Ernesto Nelson por la literatura hispanoamericana se refleja en cada página, invitando a los lectores a compartir su fascinación y aprecio. En resumen, «Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader» es más que una simple colección de textos; es una celebración de la diversidad y la riqueza de la literatura hispanoamericana. No pierdas la oportunidad de explorar este tesoro literario. Adquiere tu copia hoy mismo y descubre la profundidad y la belleza de las letras hispanoamericanas. ¡No dejes pasar la oportunidad de sumergirte en la literatura hispanoamericana! Consigue tu ejemplar de «Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader» y descubre las voces y las historias que han dado forma a la identidad cultural de América Latina.
Author : Frederick Bliss Luquiens
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Eugenia Roldán Vera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Eugenia Roldan Vera's study explores the popularisation and spreading of knowledge and science in South American countries which received books from the British publisher Rudolph Ackermann from 1823 to 1830.
Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1612514146
The U.S. Navy's first two-ocean war was the Spanish-American War of 1898. A war that was global in scope, with the decisive naval battles of war at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba separated by two months and over ten thousand miles. During these battles in this quick, modern war, America s New Steel Navy came of age. While the American commanders sailed to war with a technologically advanced fleet, it was the lessons they had learned from Adm. David Farragut in the Civil War that prepared them for victory over the Spaniards. This history of the U.S. Navy s operations in the war provides some memorable portraits of the colorful officers who decided the outcome of these battles: Shang Dewey in the Philippines and Fighting Bob Evans off southern Cuba; Jack Philip conning the Texas and Constructor Hobson scuttling the Merrimac; Clark of the Oregon pushing his battleship around South America; and Adm. William Sampson and Commodore Scott Schley ending their careers in controversy. These officers sailed into battle with a navy of middle-aged lieutenants and overworked bluejackets, along with green naval militiamen. They were accompanied by numerous onboard correspondents, who documented the war.In addition to descriptions of the men who fought or witnessed the pivotal battles on the American side, the book offers sympathetic portraits of several Spanish officers, the Dons for whom American sailors held little personal enmity. Admirals Patricio Montojo and Pasqual Cervera, doomed to sacrifice their forces for the pride of a dying empire, receive particular attention. The first study of the Spanish-American War to be published in many years, this book takes a journalistic approach to the subject, making the conflict and the people involved relevant to today s readers. This work details a war in which victory was determined as much by leadership as by the technology of the American Steel Navy.
Author : Jennifer French
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810142651
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including José Martí, Bartolomé de las Casas, Rubén Darío, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic, and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow. The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought—recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth—can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic “New World” and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
Author : Ivan Musicant
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805035001
The definitive version of the Spanish-American War as well as a dramatic account of America's emergence as a global power.
Author : Ana del Sarto
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822333401
Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies.