Latin America category: 3090 books
American Extremes
Extremos de América
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In this notable collection of essays, written in the middle of the twentieth century, a towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world. This perceptive examination of many political and economic topics...
Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America
Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across...
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s
Beyond the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.--American Political Science Review
"These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American...
Beyond Civil Society
Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century...
by Adriana Cerletti, Silvia Citro, Carlos Molinero
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical developments advanced by the current affective turn. Contributors deal with the relationship between music,...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
Brazil, 1964-1985
The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central...
Latin America since Independence
Two Centuries of Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This innovative text offers a clear and concise introduction to Latin America since independence. Thomas C. Wright traces continuity and change in five central colonial legacies: authoritarian governance; a rigid social hierarchy based on race, color, and gender; the powerful Roman Catholic Church;...
Sovereign Emergencies
Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights...
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America’s cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world’s fairs and food....
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 Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
What are the implications of ideology in the endurance of competitive authoritarian regimes? This study aims to study this connection through a comparison of two recent studies in Latin America,...
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,...
by Blair Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
A comprehensive, timely, and entertaining account of the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of more than thirty discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, providing students with the most recent information possible. The information is presented in an objective,...