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Women Legislators in Central America
Politics, Democracy, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
During the years between 1980 and 1999, in the midst of war and economic crisis, a record number of women were elected to national legislatures in Central American republics. Can quantitative increases in the presence of elected women in Central America produce qualitative political changes?In this detailed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study focuses on the issue of the growing threat of transnational criminal gangs spreading throughout the Central America and the United States (U.S.). More specifically, the study addresses...
Spanish Central America
A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This new, fully updated edition of The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget is the ultimate guide to the region, covering all seven Central American countries in depth with Rough Guides' unique tell-it-like-it-is style. Rough Guides' intrepid authors have climbed up Mayan monuments, braved chicken...
by Marla Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
A comprehensive guide to travel in Central America, including packing tips, restaurant reviews and border crossing guidelines. A quick, informative journal packed with useful links and photographsTwo Months in Central America is a comprehensive guide of what to pack, where to eat, stay and play...
Land Beyond the River
The Untold Story of Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world.
In...
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Preface
During the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what purports to be an exhaustive research into the character and customs of the aboriginal inhabitants of the western portion of North America at the time they were first seen by their subduers....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
These excellent reports have been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Contents: The Central America Regional Security Initiative: Disrupt the Movement of Criminals and Contraband; Escalating Violence in El Salvador; El Salvador: Background and U.S. Relations.During...
Armies without Nations
Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua....
INSIDE CENTRAL AMERICA
The Essential Facts Past and Present on El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Since 1979, United States policy in Central America has been based on an assumption that revolutionary movements led by Marxists must represent a serious threat to U.S. interests and security. On this point, the difference between liberals and conservatives is merely one of emphasis or accent.
Such...
The Business of Empire
United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of...
by Frank C. Newby
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
The story of Central America is one of plunder and pillage by the nations of the world: The gunboat diplomacy of the United States; the influence of the CIA; the greed of giant international corporations; the tragedy of slavery and conquest.This part of the world has never known stability or peace....
by Maria Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Costa Rica is sometimes referred to as “the Switzerland of Central America” and no wonder…the comfortable lifestyle, peaceful government, and stunning natural wonders make this small Central American country the perfect vacation spot. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction To Costa...
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State
The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1998
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging...