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This Land Is Ours Now
Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations...
Revolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers
The Golden Age of Banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American Southwest, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully ― Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the...
Edge of Empire
Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Río de la Plata
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires....
Peasants on Plantations
Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the...
Blood of the Earth
Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Conflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century. "Resource nationalism"—the conviction that resource wealth should be used for the benefit of the "nation"—has often united otherwise disparate groups, including mineworkers,...
Finding Voice
A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows how hands-on work in the arts with learners of all ages and...
Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Unlike most other emerging South American democracies, Venezuela has not succumbed to a successful military coup d'etat during four decades of democratic rule. What drives armed forces to follow the orders of elected leaders? And how do emerging democracies gain that control over their military establishments?...
Haints of the Hills
North Carolina's Haunted Hundred Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Daniel W. Barefoot’s colleagues in the North Carolina General Assembly call him their “resident historian.” Now, he’s their resident folklorist, too. North Carolina’s Haunted Hundred, Barefoot’s three-volume series, is a sampler of the diverse supernatural history of the Tar Heel State....
The United States and Brazil
A Long Road of Unmet Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
This book is a succinct overview of the history of US-Brazilian relations over the past two decades.
Monica Hirst considers economic relations between the two countries, presenting pertinent statistical information and detailing key economic policy disputes between the two governments (as well...
The Moral Electricity of Print
Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section
Moral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
Freedom for Nelson Mandela
The Release of Nelson Mandela after 27 Years of Imprisonment as Reported by Times Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Collected Times Media photographs and articles documenting the days prior, the day of, and the immediate reaction to the release of freedom fighter and the world's most famous prisoner. This collection documents one of the most significant days in South African history. Exclusive glimpses and photographs provide insight to how this momentous event.
Document Raj
Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research...
Aids To Scouting
for N.-C.O.s and Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual filled with personal stories of intrigue and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the...