Latin America category: 3090 books
by Marc Becker
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. This clear and concise text extends our understanding with a critical narrative analysis of key case studies: the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution; the 1944–1954 Guatemalan Spring; the 1952–1964 MNR-led revolution...
Neighborly Adversaries
Readings in U.S.–Latin American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This comprehensive reader traces the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the early nineteenth century to the administration of Barack Obama. Thoroughly revised and updated, the book includes six original essays published exclusively for this edition. A new culture section...
by Glenn A. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
At the turn of the twentieth century, Honduras witnessed the expansion of its banana industry and the development of the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit into multinational corporations with significant political and economic influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. These companies relied...
The Sovereign Colony
Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial experience, however, Puerto Ricans managed to secure national Olympic representation in the 1930s and in...
Imposing Decency
The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, attempts at reforming marriage, and working-class ideas about...
by Gregory Bond
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
A trip to Cuba will take you back to the Latin America of a bygone age. American motorcars from the 1960s drive the streets and Fidel Castro’s brand of communism survives. Pictures of the revolutionary Che Guevara adorn huge buildings. The American embargo partially continues. Meanwhile, the friendly...
Crescent over Another Horizon
Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved...
by OAJ
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
REVISED EDITION: NOW IT'S SAFE TO BRING TO WORK! (well, kinda).
The original Adventures Of The Traveling Sex Bunnies was too graphic in nature. Despite the popularity of the original, we decided to tone it down for all mature readers.
We tamed the beast but did not lose its essence....
Hacking Coyote
Tricks for Digital Resistance
Language: German
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Good-bye, rational culture! Let Guatemalan writer Alan Mills welcome you to the philosophy of tricksters. Follow him on a tour through indigenous mythology, classical education, and the literary canon, thoroughly mixed with hacking theory and with popular culture-from Star Wars and Breaking Bad to...
Latin American Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students...
Dramatists in Revolt
The New Latin American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater. Playwrights discussed are those who have made outstanding contributions to Latin American theater during the post–World War II period and who have been particularly sensitive...
Translocalities/Translocalidades
Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines,...
Latin American Democracies
Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Using the cases of Columbia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela, Peeler compares the evolution and maintenance of liberal democratic regimes in the Latin American context. These regimes are shown to be products of the normal Latin American political processes, under particular conditions that have permitted...
The Inter American Press Association
Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting...