Paulo Drinot: 2 books
The Allure of Labor
Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
In The Allure of Labor, Paulo Drinot rethinks the social politics of early-twentieth-century Peru. Arguing that industrialization was as much a cultural project as an economic one, he describes how intellectuals and policymakers came to believe that industrialization and a modern workforce would transform...
Che's Travels
The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina...