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A Place in Politics
São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of São Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world’s foremost coffee-producing region from the outset of this period and home to more than six million people by 1930, São Paulo...
The Tribute of Blood
Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive...
The Plebeian Republic
The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Combining social and political history, The Plebeian Republic challenges well-established interpretations of state making, rural society, and caudillo politics during the early years of Peru’s republic. Cecilia Méndez presents the first in-depth reconstruction and analysis of the Huanta rebellion...
The Revolution Has Come
Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the leadership,...
Patients of the State
The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration...
Stringing Together a Nation
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865–1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military...
Embodying the Sacred
Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred,...
Creating Our Own
Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the “folkloric arts”—particularly music, dance, and drama—in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role that these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza...
by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known...
by John Beverley
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
In Latinamericanism after 9/11, John Beverley explores Latinamericanist cultural theory in relation to new modes of political mobilization in Latin America. He contends that after 9/11, the hegemony of the United States and the neoliberal assumptions of the so-called Washington Consensus began to...
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad
Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1996
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story...
A Time for Tea
Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women...
The French Atlantic Triangle
Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on...
by Marcus Rainsford
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of this momentous event. This new edition is the first to appear since the original publication...