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Writings of Simon BolivarGeneral Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "e;George Washington"e; of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar became Columbia&'s first...

A Very Short IntroductionThis Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of...

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Strange Likeness examines how Old English was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Poets discussed include Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney, whose translation of  Beowulf is for the first time fully contextualized within the rest of his work....

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of        weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of        coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all        about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging...