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“alejandro lugo”

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  • Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts

    Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border

    by Alejandro Lugo ...
    Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2008Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, 2009Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Roots of Brazil

    by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Translated by G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Latin American Politics

    An Introduction

    by David Close ...
    Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru

    by Moisés Arce ...
    Series Book 349 - Pitt Latin American Series
    Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Despite its residents reporting the third-highest level of protest participation in the region, Peru has been largely ignored in these discussions ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ethnicity and the Persistence of Inequality

    The Case of Peru

    by R. Thorp, M. Paredes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Investigating the case of Peru, this book explores how inequality is embedded in institutions that constitute the interface between the economy, the polity and geography of the country. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • 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

  • Raúl Castro and Cuba

    A Military Story

    by H. Klepak ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book tells the story of the military life of Raúl Castro, an impressive military commander and highly original thinker who is also the longest-serving minister of defense of any country in recent times. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Colombian Agency and the making of US Foreign Policy

    Intervention by Invitation

    by Alvaro Mendez ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis
    This book studies a significant event in US relations with Latin America, shedding light on the role of dependent states and their foreign policy agency in the process by which local concerns become intertwined with the dominant state’s foreign policy. Plan Colombia was a large-scale foreign aid programme through which the US intervened in the internal affairs of Colombia, by invitation. It proved ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Seriously Funny

    Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance

    by Samuel Schmidt ...
    Translated by Adam Schmidt ...
    Political jokes exist around the world and across many types of political systems. But what purposes do they serve? Do they have an impact on politics—or on politicians? Surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to these significant questions. And, until the publication of this book, no one had ever systematically studied political humor in Mexico. When the first edition of this work was ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America

    by Phil Gunson ...
    First published in 1989, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America provides a guide to the most important organizations, figures, events and themes in the contemporary politics of South America. The countries covered are Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Suriname and Guyana, as well as the French overseas department of French ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Toward a North American Legal System

    Edited by J. McHugh ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Toward a North American Legal System is a collection of scholarship that looks at a timely issue in public policy. Two decades after NAFTA, the team assembled by James T. McHugh works through both philosophical and practical questions related to a possibly more integrated legal system on the North American continent. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy

    Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005

    by Thomas C. Wright ...
    Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto Pinochet and the Argentine military employed state terrorism in their quest to eradicate Marxism and other forms of “subversion.” Pinochet constructed an iron shield of impunity for himself and the military in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD