Latin America category: 3090 books
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....
When Sugar Ruled
Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Two tropical commodities—coffee and sugar—dominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916 presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many...
by Ángel J. Cappelletti
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
No comprable history exists.
Available material in English tends to be fragmentary and country-specific. This is the first regional history ever published in English.
Less a comprehensive history than an overview that dips into fascinating, detailed anecdotes about and biographies of historical events and figures.
by Eduardo Galeano
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
“An epic work of literary creation . . . There could be no greater vindication of the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America than Memory of Fire.” —The Washington Post
Eduardo Galeano’s monumental three-volume retelling of the history of the New World begins with Genesis,...
The Mestizo Mind
The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.
Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization...
The Hour of Eugenics"
Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1996
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology...
by Jethro Soutar, Tim Girven, Tim Vickery
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A prison team in Argentina, a transvestite team in Colombia, a kidnapped team in Bolivia; Quechua women playing in bowler hats in the Andes, a Latino immigrant league in New York, Chilean hooligans on an away trip to Buenos Aires... A collection of creative non-fiction writing from Latin America takes football as its starting point, on a journey to the heart of Latin American society.
The Generation of '72
Latin America's Forced Global Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical...
by Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America’s plans for neo-liberal imperialism,...
No Higher Law
American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, No Higher Law is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America from independence to the present. From the nation's earliest days, argues Brian Loveman, U.S. leaders viewed and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study analyzes contemporary civil-military relations in three Latin American countries: Brazil, El Salvador, and Uruguay. Since 2010, each country has elected a president who was previously...
Violent Peace
Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
When is military force an acceptable tool of foreign policy? Why do democracies use force against each other? David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive their...
The Other West
Latin America from Invasion to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on historical...
International Relations in Latin America
Peace and Security in the Southern Cone
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This work studies the development of bilateral relations in two pairs of states (dyads): Argentina-Brazil and Argentina-Chile. It takes on a moderate constructivist approach that incorporates into the analysis of international relations the role of identities, ideas and perceptions as well as of material...