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Utopia Unarmed
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left?...
From Tejano to Tango
Essays on Latin American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development...
Francisco de Miranda
A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Before there was Sim-n Bol'var, there was Francisco de Miranda. He was among the most infamous men of his generation, loved or hated by all who knew him. Though his roots are deeply entrenched in Latin America, he was a true world citizen-residing for extended periods in the United States and in Europe....
Colonial Spanish America
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people—people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand...
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...
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,...
by Jerry Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
This is a collection of songs in Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian French from 19 countries including Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, and Uraguay. All Lyrics appear in their original languages as well as in singable transliterated English. Each song is presented as...
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...
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 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 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...