Latin America category: 3090 books
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Empire and Dissent
The United States and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Since the early nineteenth century, the United States has repeatedly intervened in the affairs of Latin American nations to pursue its own interests and to “protect” those countries from other imperial powers or from internal “threats.” The resentment and opposition generated by the encroachment...
by Benno Weiser Varon
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
In 1932, Benno Weiser was studying medicine in Vienna. During a brawl he rescued a fellow Jewish student by cracking the skull of a huge Nazi with two outsized metal keys, while some thirty Nazis watched. He considers this event his rite of passage — proving to himself that “Jews are no cowards.”...
Disciplinary Conquest
U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Disciplinary Conquest Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the origin story of Latin American studies by tracing the discipline's roots back to the first half of the twentieth century. Salvatore focuses on the work of five representative U.S. scholars of South America—historian Clarence Haring, geographer...
Latin America's Radical Left
Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist militants and intellectuals in South America. This new generation, formed primarily by people who in the late 1960s were still under the age of thirty, challenged traditional politics and embraced...
Colonial Spanish America
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people—people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand...
Golazo!
The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of How Soccer Shaped Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading.
“Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that...
Gringo
A Coming of Age in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Gringo charts two journeys, both of which began a decade ago. The first is the sweeping transformation of Latin American politics that started with Hugo Chávez's inauguration as president of Venezuela in 1999. In that same year, an eighteen-year-old Chesa Boudin leaves his middle-class Chicago life...
The Banana Wars
United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides...