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Americas : Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean (3RD 06 Edition)
by Peter Winn  Publisher Comments Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, and from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political...
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Modern Latin America 4TH Edition
by Thomas E Skidmore Publisher Comments This popular text, now in its fourth edition, is a lively interpretive history that has been brought up to date in all areas, including the ongoing war against international drug trafficking, the difficulties and promises of NAFTA, the increasing trend...
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Drugs and Democracy in Latin America
by Coletta A. (edt) Youngers Publisher Comments While the U.S. has failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin entering its borders, it has, however, succeeded in generating widespread, often profoundly damaging, consequences on democracy and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean....
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In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by Gilbert M Joseph Publisher Comments Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have...
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Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America Since Independence (Jaguar Books on Latin America)
by William E French Publisher Comments This innovative volume of original primary research integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality--rather than simply supplementing existing...
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The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism
by Jay Kinsbruner Publisher Comments The colonial Spanish-American city, like its counterpart across the Atlantic, was an outgrowth of commercial enterprise. A center of entrepreneurial activity and wealth, it drew people seeking a better life, with more educational, occupational...
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Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930
by Ronn Pineo Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book explores the relationship between the impact of urbanization on the working class in Latin American cities and the variety of responses by that group in the years between 1870 and 1930. Unlike urban geographies or political...
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Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul
by Michael Reid Publisher Comments Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa's moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the...
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Latin America in a New World (Inter-American Dialogue Book)
by Abraham F Lowenthal Publisher Comments "This comprehensive overview, presenting the views of eminent scholars and practitioners, explores in useful detail the new Latin America's changing relationships with the United States, Europe, Japan, and other regions. It is excellent and most timely".-...
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Negotiating NAFTA #173: Negotiating NAFTA: A Mexican Envoy's Account
by Hermann Von Bertrab Publisher Comments In his foreword to the book, Sidney Weintraub argues that the negotiations leading to the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may be the most important between the United States and Mexico since the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe...
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Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
by John Charl Chasteen Publisher Comments How did the disparate nationalisms of Latin America's many countries--elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery--arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European,...
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Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers
by Javier Santiso Publisher Comments The political and economic transformation now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies....
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Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830
by Robert Harvey Publisher Comments The definitive history of Latin America's break from Europe follows seven extraordinary young men who made it possible. Their fight is one of the greatest and least-known epics of history, told in "Liberators" in unprecedented detail. 38 photos. 6 maps....
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Identity and Struggle - PB
by Ald Lauria-santiago Publisher Comments Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria...
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The Language of Passion
by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments Ten years of world-class journalism from one of Latin America’s most influential and controversial men of letters Since 1977, Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain’s major newspaper, El País. Dubbed “...
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Latin American Civilization: History & Society, 1492 to the Present
by Benjamin Keen Publisher Comments The sixth edition of Latin American Civilization (the third published with a Westview Press imprint) is a compact update of a classic book of readings that teachers and students of Latin American history have used and appreciated since its first...
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Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America
by O Hugo Benavides Publisher Comments Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operas--telenovelas--have found enthusiastic audiences throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as in...
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The Spanish Seaborne Empire
by J H Parry Publisher Comments The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three...
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Hovering Giant (Pitt Latin American Series)
by Cole Blasier Publisher Comments In the first edition of The Hovering Giant, Cole Blasier analyzed U.S. response to revolutions in Latin America from Madero in Mexico to Allende in Chile. He explained why U.S. leaders sponsored paramilitary units to overthrow revolutionary...
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An Environmental History of Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)
by Shawn Willia Miller Publisher Comments This book narrates 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...
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