Latin category: 3540 books
The Banana Wars
United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides...
The Making of Modern Colombia
A Nation in Spite of Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1993
Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells...
Beyond the Eagle's Shadow
New Histories of Latin America's Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection...
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy
The Alliance for Progress in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations,...
The Faces of Honor
Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
A contemporary of Columbus noted "those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives." This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, privilege, and rank became cornerstones of the colonial social order. Honor had many faces. To a freed black woman...
by Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. In addition, New Spain's economy and culture were also changing radically....
Riots in the Cities
Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era. The actual political power wielded by the underprivileged city dwellers before the twentieth century has...
The Naming of the Shrew
A Curious History of Latin Names
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Latin names – frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel – have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century.
Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus...
Domesticating Empire
Enlightenment in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide range of topics of mutual interest,...
by Susan Migden Socolow
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women.
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...
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives...
Rethinking the Informal City
Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities...
Making Out In Spanish
(Spanish Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Making Out in Spanish is a fun, accessible and thorough Spanish phrase book and guide to the Spanish language as it's really spoken.
Te adoro! Cuando puedo volver a verte?—(I adore you! When can I see you next time?) Answer this correctly in Spanish, and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly,...