South America

Podcast Brian Glanville

The World Cup story

Barry Cunliffe and David Abulafia

Living with the oceans

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Violeta Parra and the birth of ‘New Song’

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Percy Fawcett and the lost city of Z: The history behind the film

Monument to Alexander von Humboldt

Books interview with Andrea Wulf: “Alexander von Humboldt is the forgotten father of environmentalism”

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Historic San Felipe de Barajas castle is one of the main attractions in Cartagena, Colombia. (Image: Thinkstock by Getty Images)

General prehistory

My favourite place: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

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My favourite place: Miranda Kaufmann

Brazil's soccer star Pele is hoisted on the shoulders of his teammates and fans after Brazil won the ninth World Cup final against Italy. (AP Photo)

Brazil: where sport and politics have always mixed

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Bolívar: The Epic Life of the Man who Liberated South America

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Rio de Janeiro 1820

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General prehistory

The Maya and the apocalypse

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In the 16,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, societies in Eurasia and the Americas followed radically different trajectories. Here, an Aztec priest offers the heart taken from a living person to the god of war, Huitzilopochtli. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

General prehistory

The old world and the new

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A c1870 engraving of diamond miners in Brazil in c1800. Despite abolitionists' best efforts, British companies used slaves in their South American mines until the 1880s. (Getty Images)

Britain’s slaves in Latin America

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