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  • Populism in Latin America

    Second Edition

    by Michael L. Conniff, Jorge Basurto, Steve Ellner, Joel Horowitz, William Francis Robinson, Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, Steve Stein, Kurt Weyland, Paul Drake, Dr. Kenneth Roberts, Ph.D0 ...
    A scholarly analysis of the origins, evolution, and enduring impact of populism in Latin American political life.This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.For more than one hundred years—from the beginning of the twentieth to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    A Story of American Rage

    by Jared Yates Sexton ...
    “Sexton grapples with the Trump campaign from the perspective of the crowds reveling in the candidate’s presence and message. It is a useful vantage point given the increasingly blatant bigotry in the months since the election.” —The Washington PostThe People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Irish Paradox

    How and Why We Are Such a Contradictory People

    by Sean Moncrieff ...
    What does it mean to be Irish?'We've been clever and stupid, principled and corrupt. We can be kind and cruel, guilty of dopey optimism and chronic fatalism. We're friendly, but near impossible to get to know. We're proud to be Irish but often crippled with self-loathing. We think we're great, but not really. We find ourselves fascinating. Of course we do. We're a paradox.'There's something about ... Read more

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  • Travels with Harley

    Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity

    by Christopher Holshek ...
    Far more than an account of an 8,000 mile motorcycle adventure across the United States, Travels with Harley is a stirring memoir of an Army veteran’s 30-year quest for peace and personal and national identity. Only through service to others, he learns, can Americans of all ages find their identity and step up to national and global citizenship, starting in their own communities, and move the ... Read more

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  • Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror

    U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia

    by Oliver Villar, Drew Cottle ...
    Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollarsin aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug tradeand State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result hasbeen a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilizeColombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the officialreasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Speaking Rights to Power

    Constructing Political Will

    by Alison Brysk ...
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. How can "Speaking Rights to Power" construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns and using an innovative analysis of the politics ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Exploring the Andes and the Inca Ruins, Illustrated

    by E G Squier ...
    E G Squier, noted 19th century archeologist and newspaper editor, was appointed United States Commissioner to Peru in 1863. In that capacity he traveled extensively in the mountains of Bolivia and Peru, making the arduous journey across the Andes on the back of a mule. In his travels he took extensive notes and photographs of the Inca monuments then extant. This collection is a series that ... Read more

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  • Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance

    A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy

    by Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook ...
    Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945

    Repression during World Upheaval

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime.Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regime of Getúlio Vargas ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Civitas by Design

    Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

    by Howard Gillette Jr. ...
    Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these visionaries have sought to deepen civitas, or the shared community of citizens.In Civitas by ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Tribute of Blood

    Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945

    by Peter M. Beattie, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Women and Guerrilla Movements

    Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba

    by Karen Kampwirth ...
    The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new men" who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show ... Read more

    $27.89 USD