Latin America category: 3090 books
Gangster Warlords
Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
"Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on . . . Americans would do well to read [Gangster Warlords]." --The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
From the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives...
How to Travel without Seeing
Dispatches from the New Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
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A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman concludes that...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors,...
by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known...
by Todd Hartch
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Winner of 2014 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology from the American Society of Missiology Winner of the 2015 Christianity Today Award for Missions/Global Affairs Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission Studies Predominantly Catholic...
by John Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how...
The Penguin History Of Latin America
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina,...
Fútbol!
Why Soccer Matters in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Get ready for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics—both held in Brazil—with the story of Latin America’s most popular sport. Fútbol! explains why competitors and fans alike are so fiercely dedicated to soccer throughout the region.
From its origins in British boarding...
Negotiating Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates...
El Mall
The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region’s “coming of age”? El Mall is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption...
Falling Behind
Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural...
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political...
by Rory Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and reappraises its impact on the Latin American states....
Rural Social Movements in Latin America
Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
"A remarkable collection. The chapters provide extremely useful information on a range of social movements generally not well covered in academic work--and the coverage is provided by people who are either activists within the movements themselves or long-time supporters."--Wendy Wolford,...