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Indians, Oil, and Politics
A Recent History of Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
"It is indispensable that Ecuador has peace, but to have peace you need freedom and to have freedom you need justice. And the Indian population needs justice."-President Gustavo Noboa, January 23, 2000 For five centuries, the Indians had very little voice in Ecuador. Now they are major protagonists...
Living with Lupus
Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus...
The Chaco War
Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In 1932 Bolivia and Paraguay went to war over the Chaco region in South America. The war lasted three years and approximately 52,000 Bolivians and Paraguayans died. Moving beyond the battlefields of the Chaco War, this volume highlights the forgotten narratives of the war. Studying the environmental,...
The Mexican Revolution's Wake
The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution,...
Blacks of the Land
Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made...
Modern Panama
From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Few have a complete understanding of the recent history of Panama, markedly since the signing of the Carter–Torrijos Treaties in 1977. Although the Treaty set the stage for the country to finally control all of its territory, little is known about how Panama has fared, both as a manager of a major...
Tango Lessons
Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's...
by Brian R. Hamnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
This concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico's struggle to break out of the colonial past and assert its viability as a sovereign state in a competitive world. In this third edition, Hamnett adds new material on Mexico's regional and international...
Death Squads or Self-Defense Forces?
How Paramilitary Groups Emerge and Challenge Democracy in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In an era when the global community is confronted with challenges posed by violent nonstate organizations--from FARC in Colombia to the Taliban in Afghanistan--our understanding of the nature and emergence of these groups takes on heightened importance. Julie Mazzei's timely study offers a comprehensive...
Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault
Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862-1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Though the law and courts of nineteenth-century Peru were institutions created by and for the ruling elite, women of all classes used the system to negotiate the complexities of property rights, childrearing, and marriage, and often to defend their very definitions of honor. Drawing on the trial transcripts...
This City Belongs to You
A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later...
by Roman Plesky
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Cuba is a fascinating country that is very different from the other countries in Latin America. Many people who think of Cuba, spontaneously have sugar cane, palm trees, salsa, coffee, rum, cigars, orchids, sun and crystal clear water in front of their eyes. But the island offers much more. Here is...
Escape to Miami
An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands of Cubans who had launched...
Purchasing Whiteness
Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al...