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Green Guerrillas: Environmental Conflicts in Latin America - A Reader
by Helen Collinson  Publisher Comments A war on the environment, driven by free-market policies, is sweeping Latin America. Thousands of local disputes over the control and use of natural resources have flared up as a result. This wide-ranging anthology provides an up-to-date guide to this...
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Making the Americas (07 Edition)
by Obrien Synopsis Americans' belief in their economic, political, and cultural superiority launched them on a mission to transform Latin America that has evolved into a global process of Americanization. From corporate and philanthropic initiatives to military...
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A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Diana Sorensen Publisher Comments A Turbulent Decade Remembered studies the 1960s—the continental moment that marked Latin America's full entry into both modernity and post-modernity in the international arena. Delving into scenes of importance for the intersection of aesthetics...
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The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Essential Histories)
by Marshall C. Eakin Publisher Comments From the Americas before Columbus through the economic development, rising political participation, and the search of identity over the last century, this book offers readers a political, economic and cultural history of Latin America. It is the perfect...
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Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America: Seminar on Feminism and Culture in Latin America
by Emilie Bergmann Publisher Comments The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of...
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Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States During the Castro Era
by Christopher M White Publisher Comments The relationship between Mexico and Cuba grabbed international headlines early in the twenty-first century due to a rift in a relationship generally understood to be unique, special, and friendly since Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba in 1959. Much...
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The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
by Paul Craig Roberts Publisher Comments The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sparked considerable interest and speculation on the part of Western observers. Less noted, though hardly...
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The Idea of Race in Latin America: 1870-1940 (Critical Reflections on Latin America Series)
by Richard Graham Publisher Comments From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On the one hand, they aspired to an ever-closer connection to Europe and North America, where, during much of this period...
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Latin American Societies in Transition
by Robert C Williamson Publisher Comments This is an examination of the social structures that shape Latin American societies. Knowledge of demography, rural and urban life, and ethnic and status relationships is critical for understanding the political and economic fabric of those societies...
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Times Gone by: Memoirs of a Man in Action (Library of Latin America)
by Vicen Perez Rosales Publisher Comments These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Perez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis...
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Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?
by Eric Hershberg Publisher Comments A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America. <BR>""Where have the economic policies succeeded? This is not a matter of ideology, it is political, technical, a matter of practical judgment.""--Manuel Lopez...
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Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin American Since 1945 (Issues in the History of American Foreign Relations)
by Alan Mcpherson Publisher Comments Over the last sixty years, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has been marred by ideological conflict, imbalances of power, and economic disparity. The U.S.-sponsored coup in Guatemala, the near lynching of Vice President...
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Jaguar Books on Latin America #0010: Democracy in Latin America: Patterns and Cycles: Patterns and Cycles
by Roderic Ai Camp Publisher Comments Events such as the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement have made it imperative for students to grasp the history and possible directions of Latin American political change. This title gives readers both the background and the analytical...
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Bibliographies & Indexes in Women's Studies #25: Index to Translated Short Fiction by Latin American Women in English Language Anthologies
by Kathy S Leonard Publisher Comments During the past 10 years, the situation of women writers in Latin America has dramatically changed as has the interest the reading public has shown in their work. In the United States, the rise of women's studies programs has fostered a heightened...
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Latin America in Crisis
by John W Sherman Publisher Comments Latin America in Crisis builds a clear-eyed consideration of the fundamental economic and political realities of Latin America today onto a framework of introductory history. It is a concise core text for Latin American survey courses that require both a...
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Selected Writings of Andres Bello (Library of Latin America)
by Fran Lopez-morillas Publisher Comments Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major...
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Warnings from the Far South: Democracy Versus Dictatorship in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile
by William Colum Davis Publisher Comments This work examines three advanced Latin American republics with long records of democracy, political stability, and economic prosperity which degenerated into instability and military dictatorship--and issues a warning for other democratic peoples...
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Latin American Heroes
by Jerome Adams Publisher Comments Many North Americans are unaware of the history and politics of Latin America, and Latin American Heroes goes a long way to redress this lack of knowledge. These profiles of twenty-three history makers offer a unique view of Latin America through the...
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Reframing Latin America: A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Erik Ching Publisher Comments Providing an extensive introduction to cultural studies in general, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting provocative, essential readings from Latin American writers of the last two centuries, Reframing Latin America brings much-...
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Death, Dismemberment, and Memory : Body Politics in Latin America (04 Edition)
by Lyman L. (ed.) Johnson Publisher Comments The long history of the politically symbolic use of the bodies, or body parts, of martyred heroes in Latin America....
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