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  • Debts Unpaid

    Two Centuries of Trouble and Conflict in Mexico's Economy

    by Louise E. Walker ...
    Series series Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Power struggles between debtors and creditors about unpaid debts have animated the history of economic transformation from the emergence of capitalist relations to the recent global financial crashes. Illuminating how ordinary people fought for economic justice in Mexico from the eve of independence to the early 2000s, this study argues that conflicts over small-scale debts were a stress test for ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Waking from the Dream

    Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968

    by Louise E. Walker ...
    When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party struggled to recover its legitimacy, but instead saw its support begin to erode. In the ... Read more

    $28.79 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

    $44.59 USD

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  • Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America

    Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy

    by Stephen Haber ...
    Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Distant Tyranny

    Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

    by Regina Grafe ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian capital city of Madrid drew resources from surrounding Spanish regions as it pursued its quest ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Discrimination In Latin America: An Economic Perspective

    by Nopo Hugo; Chong Alberto; Moro Andrea ...
    Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Poor People's Politics

    Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita

    by Javier Auyero ...
    “Political clientelism” is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People’s Politics to analyze the political practices of the Peronist Party among shantytown dwellers in contemporary Argentina.Looking closely at ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Making of a Market

    Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850–1900

    by Juliette Levy ...
    During the nineteenth century, Yucatán moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucatán and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tort Law in Portugal

    by Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira ...
    Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in Portugal. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each person's most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale. ... Read more

    $82.39 USD

  • The Construction of the Maras

    Between Politicization and Securitization

    by Antonia Does ...
    Series series eCahiers de l’Institut
    High levels of crime and violence in Central America’s northern triangle are a major preoccupation of politicians, policy-makers and citizens. Public authorities in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have sought repressive measures to increase public safety and to contain such violence, for which youth gangs (maras) are principally held responsible. Substantiated by interviews with key ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Indigenous Dispossession

    Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico

    by M. Bianet Castellanos ...
    Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas, traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Banking on Health

    The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America

    by Shiri Noy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and Washington DC, this book argues that the answer to this puzzle is twofold. First, the World Bank has ... Read more

    $23.79 USD