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by Carmelo Esterrich, John R. Baldwin, Phillip J. Chidester
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropicália movement in Brazil, the...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
"This groundbreaking study examines the connection between what are arguably the two most distinguishing phenomena of the modern world: the unprecedented surges in global mobility and in the creation of politically bounded spaces and identities."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers...
Lessons from Latin America
Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks. This book addresses that gap, providing a fascinating...
Food for the Few
Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Recent decades have seen tremendous changes in Latin America's agricultural sector, resulting from a broad program of liberalization instigated under pressure from the United States, the IMF, and the World Bank. Tariffs have been lifted, agricultural markets have been opened and privatized, land reform...
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World
Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that...
by Carlos de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays AEMDNMOin this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and...
Translocalities/Translocalidades
Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines,...
Latin Explorations (Routledge Revivals)
Critical Studies in Roman Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Latin Explorations, first published in 1963,offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies – Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail, isolated from contemporary ideas about poetry and...
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America’s cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world’s fairs and food....
The Tango War
The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" • A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September • One of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2018"
"Masterful...not only filled with engrossing history but includes a cast of characters who could be the...
Latin American Democracies
Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Using the cases of Columbia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela, Peeler compares the evolution and maintenance of liberal democratic regimes in the Latin American context. These regimes are shown to be products of the normal Latin American political processes, under particular conditions that have permitted...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political...