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Caribbean Revolutions
Cold War Armed Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book provides both a historical introduction and a comparative analysis of the five most important guerrilla movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. The authors argue that the Cold War shaped and fueled...
Do the Poor Count?
Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by...
by D.H. Figueredo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Aimed at beginners, this book looks at the history, folklore, and traditions of Hispanics in the United States and Latin America from the 16th century to the present day.
by John Dos Passos
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his experiences in Brazil, presents the people and landscapes...
Venezuela - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
An influential oil producer with a colorful and charismatic president at its helm since 1999, Venezuela is a vast, sometimes frustrating, but never dull country. It is one of the most complex countries in Latin America and one of the least understood. An ambitious attempt to benefit the poor and redistribute...
Idea of a New General History of North America
An Account of Colonial Native Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A Spaniard originally from Italy, the polymath Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci (1702–1753), known as Boturini, traveled to New Spain in 1736. Becoming fascinated by the Mesoamerican cultures of the New World, he collected and copied native writings—and learned Nahuatl, the language in which most of...
Violent Delights, Violent Ends
Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony—colonial institutions...
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city"...
Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors...
Theater of a Thousand Wonders
A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during...
by Frank C. Newby
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
The story of Central America is one of plunder and pillage by the nations of the world: The gunboat diplomacy of the United States; the influence of the CIA; the greed of giant international corporations; the tragedy of slavery and conquest.This part of the world has never known stability or peace....
To Be a Worker
Identity and Politics in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and...
Puerto Rico
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much of its recent...
Brazil in the Making
Facets of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What memories bind them...