Latin America category: 3090 books
State Terrorism in Latin America
Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Set in the larger context of the evolution of international human rights, this cogent book examines the tragic development and ultimate resolution of Latin America's human rights crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Thomas Wright focuses especially on state terrorism in Chile under General Augusto Pinochet...
History of Modern Latin America
1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Latin America offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rich cultural and political history of this vibrant region from the onset of independence to the present day.
Includes coverage of the recent...
by George Reid Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.
Continuity Despite Change
The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change...
by Michelle Frances Carmody
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional—it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation. Contextualizing cultural and political shifts...
by June Carolyn Erlick
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This concise book provides an accessible overview of the history of the telenovela in Latin America within a pan-Latino context, including the way the genre crosses borders between Latin America and the United States. Telenovelas, a distinct variety of soap operas originating in Latin America, take...
The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America
The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
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Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Its sound scholarship combines evidence-based...
Forgotten Continent
A History of the New Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the...
Close Encounters of Empire
Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1998
New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters...
Chavez's Children
Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Most publications on the political situation in Venezuela are journalistic and lack a scientific, and particularly sociological, approach. Chavez’s Children: Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America is the first sociological work on the ideological system in Venezuela. This book deals with...
Independence in Latin America
Contrasts and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in the mid-1820s. How did this come about? Not all Latin Americans desired such a change, and the independence wars were civil wars, often cruel and always violent....
The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America
Chile, Argentina, and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the 1980s and 1990s, nations throughout Latin America experienced the dual transformations of market liberalizing reforms and democratization. Since then, perhaps no issue has been more controversial among those who study the region than the exact nature of the relationship between these two processes....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
As new social actors have emerged in Latin America, the process of dealing with the legacy of still-unresolved human rights abuses has been significantly reinvigorated. This powerful text provides the first systematic analysis of the second wave of memory and justice mobilization throughout the region....