Latin category: 3540 books
by Alan L. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Over the last sixty years, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has been marred by ideological conflict, imbalances of power, and economic disparity. The U.S.-sponsored coup in Guatemala, the near lynching of Vice President Richard Nixon in Venezuela, and the disastrous Bay of...
by Fernando Lopez-Alves
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led to the creation of a variety of states and regimes, from authoritarian military oligarchies to popular democracies. Using a rigorous logic of comparison,...
Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom
Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers...
Blood and Debt
War and the Nation-State in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today...
The First Export Era Revisited
Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a...
The Time of the Generals
Latin American Professional Militarism in World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The quarter century from 1964 to 1989 was the "time of the generals," the most clearly defined era of military rule and influence in the history of Latin America. The effects of this rule were most evident in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Chile, where French- and German-style military professionalism...
by Stephanie Alfaro, Jeffrey Blustein, Pascale Bonnefoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victims—including the dead—during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. In light of newly unearthed archival evidence, testimonial memories, and...
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
The Case for Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
As important as state-to-state and multi-state cooperation have long proven to be, many countries in the Global South have yet to fully explore its potentials. Despite their shared history of slavery, colonialism, and underdevelopment, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean currently show a lack...
The Third Century
U.S.–Latin American Relations since 1889
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This text focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America from the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century to the present. Providing a balanced perspective, it presents both the United States’ view that the Western Hemisphere needed to unite under a common democratic, capitalistic...
The Inter American Press Association
Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies...
Futbolera
A History of Women and Sports in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbolera is the first monograph on women’s sports in Latin America. Because sports evoke such passion, they are fertile ground for understanding the formation...
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers
From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1997
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers examines the lives of Latin American women who entered factory labor in increasing numbers in the early part of the twentieth century. Emphasizing the integration of traditional labor history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity,...
by Gilad Soffer
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
"1001+ Exercises English - Latin" is a collection of more than 1000 exercises for English speakers. Each exercise is a phrase in English and 5 translation options in Latin you should choose from. Exercises divided into sections such as numbers, colors, time, days, body, greeting, weather, shopping, health, emergency, restaurant and more.