Latin America category: 3090 books
Latin America's Middle Class
Unsettled Debates and New Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken...
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America
Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies...
Incomplete Democracy
Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
One of Latin America's leading sociologists, Manuel Antonio Garreton explores contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America in this work originally published in Spanish in 1995. He pays particular attention to the example of Chile, analyzing the country's return to democracy and its...
Subterranean Struggles
New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America’s...
by Stefan Rinke
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Using a broad variety of textual and visual sources, Latin America and the First World War goes beyond traditional diplomatic history and analyzes the global dimension of the history of the Great War. Filling a significant gap in transnational histories of the war, Stefan Rinke addresses political,...
by Shawn William Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's...
Writing across Cultures
Narrative Transculturation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments...
Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America
Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Strong, colorful personalities who impose their will upon laws, constitutions, courts, and congresses are an enduring feature of Latin American politics, beginning with the violent regional bosses (caudillos) of the early nineteenth century and continuing with the 'hyper-presidential' systems of today....
Revolution and Revolutionaries
Guerrilla Movements in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Few publications cover the full span of the history of revolutionary movements in Latin America. In Revolution and Revolutionaries, editor Daniel Castro examines all aspects of guerrilla warfare-from revolutionary programs to the repressive tactics used by various governments to rid themselves of...
by Alan McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day.
Engages in debates about the economic, military,...
Mothers Making Latin America
Gender, Households, and Politics Since 1825
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated from—or unimportant to—central developments in Latin American history since independence.
Presents nuanced issues in gender historiography for Latin...
by Joseph Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
From the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the Reagan Doctrine of the 1980s, the United States has presumed a position of political leadership and pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere. This has been made possible by two main factors: America's huge economy, which has made the U.S. the...
by Kendall Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable...
Latin America
Development and Conflict since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Bringing the story up-to-date, this expanded new edition takes into account recent developments including Argentina's 2001 debt default and the 2002 presidential election in Brazil. Latin America provides an introduction to the economic and political history of the region in the last half century.
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