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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “brian loveman”
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  • For la Patria

    Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America

    Edited by Brian Loveman ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    Defending 'la patria,' or 'homeland,' is the historical mission claimed by Latin American armed forces. For la Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defense and security. Latin American civil-military relations and the role of the armed forces in politics, like those of all modern nation-states, are framed by constitutional and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Times Gone By

    Memoirs of a Man of Action

    by Vicente Pérez Rosales, John H. R. Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • No Higher Law

    American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776

    by Brian Loveman ...
    Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, No Higher Law is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America from independence to the present. From the nation’s earliest days, argues Brian Loveman, U.S. leaders viewed and treated Latin America as a crucible in which to test foreign policy and from which to expand ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Addicted to Failure

    U.S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region

    Edited by Brian Loveman ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    For supplementary documentation and useful websites, click here.This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and the war on terror to be conflated? Why do U.S. policies—ostensibly designed to promote the rule of law, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Times Gone By

    Memoirs of a Man of Action

    by Vicente Pérez Rosales, John H. R. Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Politics of Antipolitics

    The Military in Latin America

    Edited by Thomas Davies, Brian Loveman ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    Latin America is moving toward democracy. The region's countries hold elections, choose leaders, and form new governments. But is the civilian government firmly in power? Or is the military still influencing policy and holding the elected politicians in check under the guise of guarding against corruption, instability, economic uncertainty, and other excesses of democracy? The editors of this work ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

    Translated by Frances R. Aparicio, Jackie White ...
    by César Miguel Rondón ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music — and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production — was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy César ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Negotiating Paradise

    U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America

    by Dennis Merrill ...
    Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill’s comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates that empire is a more textured, variable, and interactive system of inequality and resistance ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • A Concise History of Bolivia

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • My Name is Victoria

    The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity

    by Victoria Donda ...
    Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the regime. Analía was one of these children, raised without ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Aztecs

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Carrasco ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Revolutionizing Motherhood

    The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

    by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subversives, as tens of thousands were abducted, tortured, and disappeared, a group of women forged the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and changed Argentine politics forever. The Mothers began in the 1970s as an informal group of working-class ... Read more

    $40.49 USD