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“daniel hellinger”

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  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Futebol Nation

    The Story of Brazil through Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.Futebol Nation is an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dancing with Dynamite

    Social Movements and States in Latin America

    by Benjamin Dangl ...
    Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Incas

    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
    The publication of the text of the Sarmiento manuscript in the Library of Gastingen University, has enabled the Council to present the members of the Hakluyt Society with the most authentic narrative of events connected with the history of the Incas of Peru. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Securing Sex

    Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil

    by Benjamin A. Cowan ...
    In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Drawing on little-tapped archival records, he shows that by midcentury, conservatives — individuals and organizations, civilian as well as military — were firmly situated in a transnational network of right-wing cultural activists. They subsequently joined the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • La Patria del Criollo

    An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala

    Translated by W. George Lovell, Susan M. Neve ...
    by Severo Martínez Peláez ...
    This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemala’s ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • A Mother's Cry

    A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship

    by Lina Sattamini, Marcos P. S. Arruda ...
    Translated by Rex P. Nielson ...
    During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil’s dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in São Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured. A Mother’s Cry is the harrowing story of Marcos’s incarceration and his family’s efforts to locate ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Blackness in the White Nation

    A History of Afro-Uruguay

    by George Reid Andrews ...
    Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country. Afro-Uruguayans played important roles in Uruguay’s national life, creating the second-largest black press in Latin America, a racially defined political party, and numerous social and civic organizations.Afro-Uruguayans ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Embodying the Sacred

    Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

    by Nancy E. van Deusen ...
    In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred, Nancy E. van Deusen considers how women created and navigated a spiritual existence within the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Dragon in the Tropics

    Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez

    by Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold ...
    This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Underdevelopment and the Development of Law

    Corporations and Corporation Law in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

    by Robert C. Means ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development. He shows that Colombia’s corporate law provisions for commercial codes held only a tenuous relationship to reality and that, even today, Colombia’s commercial development continues to be ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Landowners in Colonial Peru

    by Keith A. Davies ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surrounding area. At first, like many other Spaniards in the Americas, they relied primarily on Indian producers; by the late 1500s they had acquired land and established small farms and estates. This, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD