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Lorsque les Espagnols arrivèrent au Pérou en 1532, l'Empire des Incas s'étendait depuis le Cuzco jusqu'à la Colombie au nord, jusqu'au Chili et l'Argentine au sud. Ce livre retrace l'histoire de l'expansion de cette tribu qui est parvenue à dominer l'ensemble des Andes en moins d'un siècle. À la lumière des fouilles archéologiques les plus récentes et des sources documentaires nouvelles, il décrit la civilisation inca si éloignée de la civilisation européenne et révèle ainsi sa puissante originalité.

Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America

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En los últimos años, nuevos datos históricos sobre los africanos y afrodescendientes en México y países de América Central han aparecido en las investigaciones del periodo virreinal. Ello ha dado lugar a diversos debates y formas de interpretación sobre el papel que desempeñó la población de origen africano en la construcción de las sociedades americanas. Este libro, coordinado por María Elisa Velázquez, reúne artículos de investigadores de varios países y de distintas corrientes historiográficas; están presentes autores clásicos, pero también otros de nuevas generaciones interesados en incursionar en las experiencias de los descendientes de africanos. Tres grandes temas forman parte de este libro: las redes de comunicación y comercio en las que estuvieron inmersos "negros y mulatos" de la época colonial; reflexiones y polémicas sobre las categorías y denominaciones que existieron y existen para identificarlos y, finalmente, experiencias de la vida cotidiana y de las características de las comunidades domésticas a las que pertenecieron. Así, la reflexión comparativa entre países, y también entre diversas interpretaciones sobre procesos históricos, abre nuevos debates sobre la participación de los africanos y afrodescendientes en el pasado y presente.

Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- africanos --- época colonial --- México --- afrodescendientes --- América Central

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Latin America's crime rates are astonishing by any standard--the region's homicide rate is the world's highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for comprehensive reform and the public demand for immediate action, usually meaning iron-fisted police tactics harking back to the repressive pre-1980s dictatorships. In Policing Democracy, Mark Ungar situates Latin America at a crossroads between its longstanding form of reactive policing and a problem-oriented approach based on prevention and citizen participation. Drawing on extensive case studies from Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras, he reviews the full spectrum of areas needing reform: criminal law, policing, investigation, trial practices, and incarceration. Finally, Policing Democracy probes democratic politics, power relations, and regional disparities of security and reform to establish a framework for understanding the crisis and moving beyond it.

Violence --- Police --- Crime prevention --- Internal security --- History of the Americas --- Prevention. --- Citizen participation.

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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Histoire du Canada et des Canadiens sous la domination anglaise" verfügbar.

Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France). --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Canada --- History --- Canada, Eastern --- New France --- Québec (Province) --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

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Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate tool of punishment. The death penalty has achieved an unparalleled prominence in our public life and left an indelible imprint on our politics and culture. It has also provoked intense scholarly debate, much of it devoted to explaining the roots of American exceptionalism.America’s Death Penalty takes a different approach to the issue by examining the historical and theoretical assumptions that have underpinned the discussion of capital punishment in the United States today. At various times the death penalty has been portrayed as an anachronism, an inheritance, or an innovation, with little reflection on the consequences that flow from the choice of words. This volume represents an effort to restore the sense of capital punishment as a question caught up in history. Edited by leading scholars of crime and justice, these original essays pursue different strategies for unsettling the usual terms of the debate. In particular, the authors use comparative and historical investigations of both Europe and America in order to cast fresh light on familiar questions about the meaning of capital punishment. This volume is essential reading for understanding the death penalty in America.Contributors: David Garland, Douglas Hay, Randall McGowen, Michael Meranze, Rebecca McLennan, and Jonathan Simon.

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