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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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Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America (Dialogos)
by Jane Landers Publisher Comments Almost eleven of the twelve million Africans who survived the trauma of enslavement in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage, remade their lives in territories claimed by Spain or Portugal. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused sources, the...
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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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Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (Inter-American Dialogue Book)
by Jorge I. Dominguez Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-439) and index....
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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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We Say No : Chronicles 1963-1991 (92 Edition)
by Eduardo Galeano Publisher Comments The title of We Say No is drawn from a speech Galeano delivered in support of democracy in Chile in 1988, stating that by saying no to a global system of greed and exploitation, one says yes to equality and freedom. The 34 pieces comprising this book...
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Science and the Creative Imagination in Latin America
by Evelyn Fishburn Synopsis This book considers the relationship between the humanities and the sciences in a Latin American context. The geographical emphasis is important, given the prominent role of science in the formation of the regions nation-states and its strong presence in...
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Cultural Agency in the Americas
by Doris Sommer Publisher Comments "In titling itself as it does, "Cultural Agency in the Americas" makes a foundational gesture. The thing to be founded is a scholarly praxis, a blueprint for academic work committed to advancing energetic, creative, nonharmonious but nonviolent...
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When States Kill : Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (05 Edition)
by Cecilia Menjvar Publisher Comments Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken...
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Beyond Borders: The New Regionalism in Latin America: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America (Economic & Social Progress in Latin America)
by Inter American Devel Synopsis Although regional integration initiatives have a long history in the world economy, these efforts have expanded significantly since the 1990s. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a wave of regional integration initiatives has included free trade areas...
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Understanding Contemporary Latin America
by Richard S. (edt) Hillman Book News Annotation Intended for newcomers to the study of Latin America, this collection of 14 articles gives fundamental background issues, themes and directions in countries throughout this complex and largely misunderstood region, emphasizing its current political...
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Faces of Latin America
by Duncan Green Publisher Comments "Simple, unpretentious narrative makes this volume an accessible and inviting source for nonspecialists. Its many photographs enhance the appeal of the book and provide the faces referred to in the title. Throughout the volume, framed insets open up the...
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State Terrorism in Latin America (06 Edition)
by Wright Publisher Comments 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 (1973D1990) and in...
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Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
by Camilla Townsend Publisher Comments The United States and the countries of Latin America were all colonized by Europeans, yet in terms of economic development, the U.S. far outstripped Latin America beginning in the nineteenth century. Observers have often tried to account for this...
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Fear at the Edge
by J E Corradi Publisher Comments "A genuinely interdisciplinary work . . . the best attempt I have ever seen at a truly unified intellectuals' approach to an important issue."--Timothy Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University "Very seldom does a collected volume achieve the academic...
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Latin Americas Wars Volume 2 Age of the Prof
by Robert L Scheina Publisher Comments The second volume in Robert Scheina's definitive study of Latin American military history draws upon years of extensive research and teaching in the field. Although wags in the United States have quipped that if Latin America's military forces were not...
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