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  • The Second World War and the Rise of Mass Nationalism in Brazil

    Class, Race and Citizenship

    by Alexandre Fortes ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book reexamines the socioeconomic and political transformation that occurred in Brazil during the 1940s as a result of the Second World War. Integrating social and political history, the author explores the adoption of new policies around state-sponsored industrialisation, the consolidation of Brazilian labour law institutions, and the expanded influence of ‘racial democracy’ in the country's ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • New Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy

    by Fernando Atique, Alexandre Fortes, Olival Freire Junior, Dennison de Oliveira, Ursula Prutsch, Alexandre Busko Valim, Ana Maria Mauad, Vinícius Marcondes Araújo, Adriana Mendonça Cunha0, Francisco César Alves Ferraz1, Maria Girardello Gatti2, Luis Felipe Kojima Hirano3, Simone Petraglia Kropf4, Aline Vanessa Locastre5, Érica Gomes Daniel Monteiro6, Eliza Mitiyo Morinaka7, Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo8, Richard Cándida Smith9, Antonio Pedro Tota0 ...
    The Second World War was a watershed moment in US–South American relations. Yet the Good Neighbor Policy—the driving force behind many of the changes during this time—remains underanalyzed, especially from a South American perspective. Examining topics ranging from literary fashions and trends in the press to science, militarism, and gender categories, New Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States

    by Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Alexandre Fortes, Thomas D. Rogers, Gillian McGillivray, Larissa Rosa Corrêa, Jerry Dávila, Glaucia Cristina Candian Fraccaro0, Michael M. Hall1, Rebecca Herman2, Barbara Weinstein3 ...
    Workers in Brazil and the United States have followed parallel and entangled histories for many centuries. Recent experiences with progressive, popular presidents and authoritarian, populist presidents in the two most populous countries in the hemisphere have underscored important similarities. The contributors in this volume focus on the comparative and transnational histories of labor between ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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    A Short History, 1910-1920

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    "An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!" (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959).The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was ... Read more

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  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later.Balances a comprehensive overview of the political and economic events of the revolution with a look at the revolution’s social impactProvides a lively, on-the-ground look at the lives of ordinary peopleFeatures both U.S. and Cuban ... Read more

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  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

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    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

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  • Story of a Death Foretold

    The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973

    by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ...
    On the fortieth anniversary of revolution and rebellion in Chile, a searching history of the rise and fall of the world's first and only democratically elected Marxist president.On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The coup had been in the works for months, even years. Shortly after giving a farewell speech to his ... Read more

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  • A Century of Revolution

    Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Friedrich Katz, Jocelyn Olcott ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin ... Read more

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  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo’s founding—this ... Read more

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  • Sandinista

    Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

    by Matilde Zimmermann ...
    “A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITEDSandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post–1959 ... Read more

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