Latin category: 3540 books
Violent Peace
Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
When is military force an acceptable tool of foreign policy? Why do democracies use force against each other? David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive their...
The Other West
Latin America from Invasion to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on historical...
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...
Between the Middle East and the Americas
The Cultural Politics of Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora traces the production and circulation of discourses about "the Middle East" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent...
Carpe Diem
How to Become a Latin Lover
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Liber prosperissimus et mirabilis ex Britannia ad Americam tandem advenit! Umquam vexatus es quando homo inritans "sine qua non" aut "mea culpa" dicit Aut postmeridiana tempora vetera, quando verba obscura ediscere conatus es, terrunt.
Nil desperandum!
Linguae Latinae...
International Relations in Latin America
Peace and Security in the Southern Cone
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This work studies the development of bilateral relations in two pairs of states (dyads): Argentina-Brazil and Argentina-Chile. It takes on a moderate constructivist approach that incorporates into the analysis of international relations the role of identities, ideas and perceptions as well as of material...
by John Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This book presents the histories of the revolutions in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as the latest demonstrations of the price the popular masses pay for the absence of a correct revolutionary strategy. The goal of the leaders of the revolutionary movements in all three countries was to create a...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the church and political structures. Exploring...
Armies without Nations
Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua....
ETYMA Two
An Introduction to Vocabulary Building from Latin and Greek
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
ETYMA II is an undergraduate or advanced high school textbook for English vocabulary-building. It is divided into three parts, beginning with a brief history of foreign words in English, including information on families of languages, the Indo-European relations of English, and the development of...
by Dirk Bontes
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The Aeneid was composed by the Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro and consists of twelve books. This sixth book about the marvelous travels of the Trojan hero Aeneas is the longest, most read and most popular of the twelve. It also very much is a stand alone book.
Once there was the hidden world...
by Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2008
Kelly Donahue-Wallace surveys the art and architecture created in the Spanish Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata from the time of the conquest to the independence era. Emphasizing the viceregal capitals and their social, economic, religious, and political contexts, the author...
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...