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Conquistadores de la Calle
Child Street Labor in Guatemala City
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations are...
by Alex Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The "free market" has been a hot topic of debate for decades. Proponents tout it as a cure-all for just about everything that ails modern society, while opponents blame it for the very same ills. But the heated rhetoric obscures one very important, indeed fundamental, fact—markets don't just run...
Varieties of Liberalism in Central America
Nation-States as Works in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Why do some countries progress while others stagnate? Why does adversity strengthen some countries and weaken others? Indeed, in this era of unprecedented movement of people, goods, and ideas, just what constitutes a nation-state? Forrest Colburn and Arturo Cruz suggest how fundamental these questions...
Checkerboards and Shatterbelts
The Geopolitics of South America
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Geography has always played a major role in world politics. In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North America and Eurasia and often forbidding internal terrain have given rise to a fascinating and unique...
Future
A Recent History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future—particularly that of America—in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the time.
In this...
The Kin Who Count
Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study...
The Eighth Day
Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are...
States of Nature
Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the economies of most countries in the Spanish Caribbean came to depend heavily on the export of plant products, such as coffee, tobacco, and sugar. After the...
The Keepers of Water and Earth
Mexican Rural Social Organization and Irrigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Agrarian reforms transformed the Mexican countryside in the late twentieth century but without, in many cases, altering fundamental power relationships. This study of the Tehuacán Valley in the state of Puebla highlights different strategies to manipulate the local implementation of federal government...
Palace Politics
How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Bringing rare interviews and meticulous research to the cloaked world of Mexican politics in the mid-twentieth century, Palace Politics provides a captivating look at the authoritarian Mexican state—one of the longest-lived regimes of its kind in recent history—as well as the origins of political...
Deception and Abuse at the Fed
Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan's Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
The Federal Reserve—the central bank of the United States—is the most powerful peacetime bureaucracy in the federal government. Under the chairmanship of Alan Greenspan (1987-2006), the Fed achieved near mythical status for its part in managing the economy, and Greenspan was lauded as a genius....
Butterflies Will Burn
Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"—sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came...
by Neil R. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In an era of increasing interdependence among nations, the foreign policies of poor countries are becoming a subject of critical interest to scholars and the public alike. Neil R. Richardson adopts a political economy perspective to examine the foreign policy repercussions of international economic dependence....
Café con leche
Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a caf con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well describes the racial composition of Venezuelan society, in which European, African, and Indian peoples have intermingled to produce a population in which almost...