Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era, vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century, vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government, vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions, vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture. Essential reference for regional history –Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Cross-cultural Approach To Advanced Spanish Puntos de encuentro: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Advanced Spanish is an innovative task- and content-based textbook that rethinks advanced Spanish instruction. Based on research on second language acquisition in the classroom, it combines language-as-discourse instruction with content-based learning. This text emphasizes the analysis of spoken and written texts drawn from…
Hispanic Essays In Honor Of Frank P. Casa This Festschrift, composed of essays written by prominent Golden Age Hispanists from the United States, Canada, Spain, and Mexico, honors one of the most important Comedia scholars in North America, Frank P. Casa. It contains representative essays on the early drama and prose of Renaissance Spain, important works on canonical…
Evaluación De La Implementación De La Declaración Ministerial Prevenir… Esta publicación detalla el progreso de los gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe en la implementación de los compromisos asumidos en la Declaración Ministerial Prevenir con Educación . Esa declaración es un acuerdo histórico firmado por los Ministros de Salud y Educación de América Latina y el Caribe con…
Regional Economic Outlook, April 2012 Growth in much of Latin America remains solid, although it slowed during the second half of 2011 as result of the combined effects of policy tightening and global uncertainties. Under our baseline, we expect growth in Latin America and the Caribbean to moderate to about 3¾ percent in 2012, from…
Spanish Education System 2009 One of the main tasks of the Institute for Teacher Training and Educational Research and Innovation (IFIIE), is, since decades, the periodic preparation of reports describing the Spanish education system in a detailed and up-to-date way. This report constitutes a brief version of the one recently carried out by the…
Guaman Poma Y Su Cronica Ilustrada Del Peru Colonial Published on the occasion of the opening of the full digital edition of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayalas Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) on the website of the Royal Libary, Copenhagen, this new book by one of the worlds most prominent Guaman Poma-scholars contains a…
