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  • The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

    Collective Memory and Cultural Production

    by A. Ros ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Cuba

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Julia E. Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Evo Morales

    The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia

    by Martín Sivak ...
    The fascinating Bolivian president Evo Morales is vying with the brash and provocative leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to be the most influential figure in South American politics today. Since coming into office four years ago, Morales has been intensely critical of the United States, speaking out against the drug war at the United Nations and implementing socialist programs at home, including ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nemesis

    One Man and the Battle for Rio

    by Misha Glenny ...
    The astonishing story of an ordinary man forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside downHow did Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, a hardworking young father, become the king of Rocinha, the largest slum in Rio; the head of a drug cartel; and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal, known to all as “Nem”? Nemesis is the riveting account of his ruthless ascent in Rio’s terrifying ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Corruption in Cuba

    Castro and Beyond

    by Sergio Díaz-Briquets, Jorge F. Pérez-López ...
    While Fidel Castro maintained his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself would be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered was how the new government would deal with the corruption that has become endemic in Cuba. Even though combating corruption cannot be ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Liberation Theology

    The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Liberation theology has become an essential component of almost every major debate over Latin America today. It has changed the face of political life in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Haiti; contributed to the rise of “people power” in the Philippines; even played a role in the growing discontent of debt-plagued Brazil.Now, using the plainspoken approach that made his Inside Central America the ... Read more

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  • Cuba Under Siege

    American Policy, the Revolution and Its People

    by K. Bolender ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    For more than 50 years America's unrelenting hostility toward the Cuban Revolution has resulted in the development of a siege mentality among island leadership and its citizens. In a vibrant new look at Cuban-American relations, Keith Bolender analyzes the effects this has had on economic, cultural, and political life. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America

    To Govern and To Serve

    Edited by Guillermo Perry, Ramona Angelescu Naqvi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability. The innovative, multi-disciplinary studies in this volume discuss the outcomes of decentralization, school autonomy, participatory budgeting at the local level and other accountability mechanisms. Rich ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America

    Edited by Kay B. Warren, Jean E. Jackson ...
    Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are responding to state violence and pro-democracy social movements by asserting their rights to a greater measure of cultural autonomy and self-determination. This volume's rich case studies of movements in Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil weigh the degree of success achieved by indigenous leaders in influencing national agendas when governments display ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Transnational Governance and South American Politics

    The Political Economy of Norms

    by Alejandro M. Peña ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the interface between transnational private governance and domestic politics in South America. It explores the social and political factors that condition how ‘global’ private norms, discourses, and initiatives dealing with sustainability and CSR regulation are engaged with, hybridized, and challenged by local actors in Argentina and Brazil. Inverting the conventional approach ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Dispersing Power

    Social Movements as Anti-State Forces

    by Raúl Zibechi ...
    Translated by Ramor Ryan ...
    Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society through anti-state movements?... the most important practical ... Read more

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  • Hemispheric Giants

    The Misunderstood History of U.S.-Brazilian Relations

    by Britta H. Crandall ...
    Tracing the full arc of U.S.-Brazilian interaction, Hemispheric Giants thoroughly explores the enigmatic and often-misunderstood nature of the relationship between the two largest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Britta H. Crandall asks the crucial question of why significant engagement between the United States and Brazil has been so scarce since the inception of the bilateral relationship in ... Read more

    $97.19 USD