Latin America category: 3090 books
by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity is a revealing probe into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's most famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book helps to illuminate the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico. Cantinflas (Moreno's film persona)...
Until the Rulers Obey
Voices from Latin American Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Bringing together voices from the movements behind the wave of change that swept Latin America at the turn of the 21st century, this unique collection of interviews features five dozen leaders and grassroots activists from 15 countries, presenting their work and debating pressing questions of power,...
Neither Peace nor Freedom
The Cultural Cold War in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Patrick Iber tells the story of left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars who worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations during the Cold War. Ultimately, they could not break free from the era’s rigid binaries, and found little room to promote their social democratic ideals without compromising them.
In Their Own Best Interest
A History of the U.S. Effect to Improve Latin Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
For over a century the U.S. has “improved” the peoples of Latin America by promoting everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. How did this paternalistic practice evolve and spread globally and what are the troubling consequences for a country with a habit of giving—and for others with a habit of receiving?
Odyssey to Ushuaia
A Motorcycling Adventure from New York to Tierra del Fuego
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
What makes a man sell all he owns and ride a motorcycle 22,000 miles from his hometown in upstate New York to the southernmost tip of South America? Some call it craziness; Latinos call it “cojones.” This funny, fast-paced narrative follows a young man in his search for meaning, adventure, and...
Cuba & Jamaica Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Cuba makes you feel like you have emerged from a time machine into the Latin America of a bygone age. Classic U.S. motorcars from the 1960s are a common sight on the streets. Fidel Castro’s brand of Soviet communism still survives. Pictures of the revolutionary Che Guevara adorn huge buildings....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as...
Frontiers of Citizenship
A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians,...
Argentine Caudillo
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas, is John Lynch's new edition of his 1981 book, which is now out of print. The original has been shortened, making it well-suited for classroom use. The figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people. The colonizers’ intent was to homogenize these cultures and make all of them “Indian.” The creation of those new identities is the subject of...
The Mobility of Modernism
Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the...
Underdevelopment and the Development of Law
Corporations and Corporation Law in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development. He shows that Colombia's corporate law provisions for commercial codes held only a tenuous...
Solidarity Under Siege
The Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970–1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
El Salvador's long civil war had its origins in the state repression against one of the most militant labor movements in Latin American history. Solidarity under Siege vividly documents the port workers and shrimp fishermen who struggled yet prospered under extremely adverse conditions during the...
Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas
The Politics of Observation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary...