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“jacob blanc”

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  • The Interior

    Recentering Brazilian History

    Edited by Frederico Freitas, Jacob Blanc ...
    A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers appeared content to remain “clinging to the coastline, like crabs.” From their perspective, the vast Brazilian interior seemed like an untapped expanse waiting to be explored and colonized. This divide between a thriving coastal area ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Transnational Communism across the Americas

    by Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood, Jacob A. Zumoff, Jacob Blanc, Tanya Harmer, Patricia Harms0, Lazar Jeifets1, Victor Jeifets2, Adriana Petra3, Frances Peace Sullivan4, Kevin A Young5 ...
    Transnational Communism across the Americas offers an innovative approach to the study of Latin American communism. It convincingly illustrates that communist parties were both deeply rooted in their own local realities and maintained significant relationships with other communists across the region and around the world. The essays in this collection use a transnational lens to examine the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Searching for Memory

    Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil

    by Jacob Blanc ...
    This biography of Brazilian journalist and activist Aluízio Palmar (b. 1943) tells the remarkable story of a revolutionary who, after surviving torture as a political prisoner during his country’s military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, would devote the second half of his life to investigating human rights abuses. With an eye to the intricacies of how Palmar has narrated his life across ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Before the Flood

    The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil

    by Jacob Blanc ...
    In Before the Flood Jacob Blanc traces the protest movements of rural Brazilians living in the shadow of the Itaipu dam—the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. In the 1970s and 1980s, local communities facing displacement took a stand against the military officials overseeing the dam's construction, and in the context of an emerging national fight for democracy, they elevated ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Che Guevara

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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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  • Foreign Policy Decision Making Under The Geisel Government

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
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    A Critical Assessment

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  • Sandinista

    Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

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