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by Roderic Ai Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks not...
South American Indian Languages
Retrospect and Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
This book fills the crucial need for a single volume that gives broad coverage and synthesizes findings for both the general reader and the specialist. This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying...
Maya Figurines
Intersections between State and Household
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines these...
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy
Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto Pinochet and the Argentine military employed state terrorism in their quest to eradicate Marxism and other forms...
Political Attitudes in Venezuela
Societal Cleavages and Political Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Here is a benchmark study of voter attitudes in a Latin American country. This volume is based on extensive survey research conducted during the Venezuelan elections of 1973. The methods employed by Baloyra and Martz to poll an "unpollable" society successfully challenge previously established paradigms....
by Victoria Pagán
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Conspiracy theory as a theoretical framework has emerged only in the last twenty years; commentators are finding it a productive way to explain the actions and thoughts of individuals and societies. In this compelling exploration of Latin literature, Pagán uses conspiracy theory to illuminate the ways...
Blood of the Earth
Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Conflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century. "Resource nationalism"—the conviction that resource wealth should be used for the benefit of the "nation"—has often united otherwise disparate groups, including mineworkers,...
by Andrew M. Riggsby
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In the late Roman Republic, acts of wrongdoing against individuals were prosecuted in private courts, while the iudicia publica (literally "public courts") tried cases that involved harm to the community as a whole. In this book, Andrew M. Riggsby thoroughly investigates the types of cases heard by the...
Inventing the Savage
The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Luana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagined this as normal;...
by Roland H. Wauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The American Robin is North America's most widespread songbird, with a range extending from Alaska, Canada, and Newfoundland to the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala. Its ruddy red breast and cheerful song have also made it one of our most beloved birds—as American as apple pie, as familiar a harbinger...
Forests
A Naturalist’s Guide to Woodland Trees
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
First published in 1990, Forests explores the ecological, economic, and human influences on over thirty significant types of woodlands. Laurence Walker focuses especially on the effects of site factors—climate, physiography, biology, and soils—upon the growth of various kinds of trees. Projects for...
by Roderic Ai Camp
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In developing countries, the extent to which intellectuals disengage themselves in state activities has widespread consequences for the social, political, and economic development of those societies. Roderic Camps’ examination of intellectuals in Mexico is the first study of a Latin American country...
Border Citizens
The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Borders cut through not just places but also relationships, politics, economics, and cultures. Eric V. Meeks examines how ethno-racial categories and identities such as Indian, Mexican, and Anglo crystallized in Arizona's borderlands between 1880 and 1980. South-central Arizona is home to many ethnic...
How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk
Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to "secularize"...