Latin category: 3540 books
Everynight Life
Culture and Dance in Latin/o America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1997
The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist...
The Penguin History Of Latin America
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina,...
Fútbol!
Why Soccer Matters in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Get ready for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics—both held in Brazil—with the story of Latin America’s most popular sport. Fútbol! explains why competitors and fans alike are so fiercely dedicated to soccer throughout the region.
From its origins in British boarding...
Negotiating Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates...
El Mall
The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region’s “coming of age”? El Mall is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption...
by Kendall Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable...
Continuity Despite Change
The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change...
by Michelle Frances Carmody
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional—it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation. Contextualizing cultural and political shifts...
by June Carolyn Erlick
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This concise book provides an accessible overview of the history of the telenovela in Latin America within a pan-Latino context, including the way the genre crosses borders between Latin America and the United States. Telenovelas, a distinct variety of soap operas originating in Latin America, take...
New Maricón Cinema
Outing Latin American Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and empathic relationship with queer identities. Referring to these films as New Maricón Cinema, Vinodh...
The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America
The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
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Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia,...
by John Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Why be interested in Latin if you're not a kid trying to get into a good college or a person of any age who wants to develop Harry Potter-type spells? Latinitas Memorabilis can help you: • Laugh and learn from the wisdom and foolishness of our ancestors and ourselves • Love and laugh more deeply...
by Andrés Bello
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of...
Falling Behind
Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural...