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  • FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

    Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

    by Fredrick B. Pike ...
    A study of how and why US-Latin American relations changed in the 1930s: " Brilliant . . . [A] charming and perceptive work." ― Foreign AffairsDuring the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies ... Read more

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  • The United States and Latin America

    Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature

    by Fredrick B. Pike ...
    The lazy greaser asleep under a sombrero and the avaricious gringo with money-stuffed pockets are only two of the negative stereotypes that North Americans and Latin Americans have cherished during several centuries of mutual misunderstanding. This unique study probes the origins of these stereotypes and myths and explores how they have shaped North American impressions of Latin America from the ... Read more

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  • For Glory and Bolívar

    The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz

    by Pamela S. Murray ...
    She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simón Bolívar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in her own right. Yet authors generally have chosen either to romanticize Manuela Sáenz or to discount her altogether. For Glory and Bolivar: The Remarkable of Life of Manuela Sáenz, by contrast, offers a comprehensive and clear-eyed biography of her. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Latin America's Middle Class

    Unsettled Debates and New Histories

    by Abel Ricardo López-Pedreros, J. Pablo Silva, Bill French, Brian P. Owensby, Fredrick B. Pike, John J. Johnson, Mario Benedetti, Andrew Hunter Whiteford, Charles Wagley, Francisco López-Cámara, Rodolfo Barros ...
    As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth ... Read more

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  • Dreaming Up America

    by Russell Banks ...
    With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history. ... Read more

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  • Latin America

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
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    A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand.Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end ... Read more

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  • Cedric J. Robinson

    On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance

    by Cedric J. Robinson ...
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    Cedric J. Robinson is considered one of the doyens of Black Studies and a pioneer in study of the Black Radical Tradition. His works have been essential texts, deconstructing racial capitalism and inspiring insurgent movements from Ferguson to the West Bank.For the first time, Robinson's essays come together, spanning over four decades and reflective of his diverse interests in the ... Read more

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  • The American Radical

    Edited by Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Harvey J. Kaye ...
    The American Radical tells the story of American democracy from the late 18th century to the present through the lives of the women and men who have fought to advance it. ... Read more

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  • Liberal Fascism

    The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

    by Jonah Goldberg ...
    “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist ... Read more

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

    by John Womack ...
    This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. ... Read more

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