Latin America category: 3090 books
The United States and Latin America
A History with Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The United States and Latin America presents a complex and dynamic view of
the relationship between the United States and Latin America. Through a
combination of targeted, thematic chapters and a range of freshly-translated
documents, Jeffrey F. Taffet and Dustin Walcher illuminate the historical
continuities...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region in the twenty-first century.
The Resurgence of the Latin American Left asks three central questions:...
Divergent Modernities
Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2001
With a Foreword by José David Saldívar
Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available...
No Apocalypse, No Integration
Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)
What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in...
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America
From Malaria to AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on the formation of national, racial, and ethnic identity, the culture of resistance, the effects of Eurocentrism, and the process...
For la Patria
Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Defending 'la patria,' or 'homeland,' is the historical mission claimed by Latin American armed forces. For la Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defense and security. Latin American civil-military relations and the role of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present. This publication is important; first, because of the historical and contemporary centrality of religion in the life of Latin America; second, for the rapid process...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, addresses the debate between those who believe in a general Islamic threat, as defined most eloquently by Samuel P. Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, and others...
A Century of Revolution
Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas. It is also a rare example of a cultural product that...
Thinking about Music from Latin America
Issues and Questions
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. The book addresses such topics as popular music, post-colonialism, women in Latin American music, tradition and...
by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization – Latin America –...
Pigmentocracies
Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original...