Latin category: 3540 books
The Indian in Latin American History
Resistance, Resilience, and Acculturation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American Indians have displayed remarkable resilience. They have resisted cultural hegemony with rebellions and have initiated petitions to demand remedies to injustices, while consciously...
The Politics of Antipolitics
The Military in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Latin America is moving toward democracy. The region's countries hold elections, choose leaders, and form new governments. But is the civilian government firmly in power? Or is the military still influencing policy and holding the elected politicians in check under the guise of guarding against corruption,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Perhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion, identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a historical and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America. From the late nineteenth century to the present,...
by Eduardo Mendieta, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America’s—and the world’s—most important philosophers, and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneering work...
American Extremes
Extremos de América
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In this notable collection of essays, written in the middle of the twentieth century, a towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world. This perceptive examination of many political and economic topics...
Close Encounters of Empire
Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1998
New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters...
Chavez's Children
Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Most publications on the political situation in Venezuela are journalistic and lack a scientific, and particularly sociological, approach. Chavez’s Children: Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America is the first sociological work on the ideological system in Venezuela. This book deals with...
Rural Social Movements in Latin America
Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
"A remarkable collection. The chapters provide extremely useful information on a range of social movements generally not well covered in academic work--and the coverage is provided by people who are either activists within the movements themselves or long-time supporters."--Wendy Wolford,...
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s
Beyond the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.--American Political Science Review
"These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American...
by Mario Tiberi
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The ones who studied latin have idioms and phrases in mind that they would like to reuse without, at times, having a clear memory of them. The ones who, instead, couldn't study it often find quotes, because that is the language in which those thoughts were born. Here we have those concepts, useful...
Independence in Latin America
Contrasts and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in the mid-1820s. How did this come about? Not all Latin Americans desired such a change, and the independence wars were civil wars, often cruel and always violent....
Dramatists in Revolt
The New Latin American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater. Playwrights discussed are those who have made outstanding contributions to Latin American theater during the post–World War II period and who have been particularly sensitive...
The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America
Chile, Argentina, and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the 1980s and 1990s, nations throughout Latin America experienced the dual transformations of market liberalizing reforms and democratization. Since then, perhaps no issue has been more controversial among those who study the region than the exact nature of the relationship between these two processes....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
As new social actors have emerged in Latin America, the process of dealing with the legacy of still-unresolved human rights abuses has been significantly reinvigorated. This powerful text provides the first systematic analysis of the second wave of memory and justice mobilization throughout the region....