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  • Immigration and Acculturation in Brazil and Argentina

    1890-1929

    by M. Bletz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    An exploration of questions of nationality in Brazil and Argentina, at the time when the cities were flooded with impoverished European immigrants. The author argues that processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant groups have to be examined within the historical context of the host nations. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    The Story of the Marvelous City

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    Rio de Janeiro’s is a lush, complex history that spans five centuries, and Marvelous City is the first full length retelling of that history written in English. From the beach life of the Ipanema and Copacabana to the struggles of the Rio’s infamous favelas, this is a story of contrast and contradiction. We are offered a glimpse into Rio’s high society and rich culture and are shown the endemic ... Read more

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  • How Wall Street Created a Nation

    The Untold History of the Panama Canal

    by Ovidio Diaz Espino ...
    How Wall Street Created a Nation: The Untold History of the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers the real story of how the United States obtained the rights to build the Canal through financial ... Read more

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  • Crude Nation

    How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

    by Raúl Gallegos ...
    Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc.Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela’s ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Church in Brazil

    The Politics of Religion

    by Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point dramatized by the rapid growth of other religious movements in Brazil—particularly Protestant ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Corruption in Cuba

    Castro and Beyond

    by Sergio Díaz-Briquets, Jorge F. Pérez-López ...
    While Fidel Castro maintained his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself would be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered was how the new government would deal with the corruption that has become endemic in Cuba. Even though combating corruption cannot be ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

    Mexico's PRI

    by Joy K. Langston ...
    When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources and without a strong national executive creates both opportunity and incentive for ambitious ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • China and Latin America in Transition

    Policy Dynamics, Economic Commitments, and Social Impacts

    Edited by Shoujun Cui, Manuel Pérez García ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the policy dynamics, economic commitments and social impacts of the fast evolving Sino-LAC relations. China’s engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean has entered into an era of strategic transition. While China is committed to strengthening its economic and political ties with Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin America as a bloc is enthusiastically echoing China’s ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Judicial Politics in Mexico

    The Supreme Court and the Transition to Democracy

    Edited by Andrea Castagnola, Saul Lopez Noriega ...
    Series series Law, Courts and Politics
    After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000. Unlike most other new democracies in Latin America, no special Constitutional Court was set up, nor was there any designated bench of the Supreme Court for constitutional adjudication. Instead, the judiciary saw ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance

    Edited by H. Haarstad ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical insight into states' and communities' relations to natural resource sectors, and show how resource dependencies continue to shape their political spaces. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Challenging the U.S.-Led War on Drugs

    Argentina in Comparative Perspective

    by Sebastián Antonino Cutrona ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    Challenging the U.S.-Led War on Drugs explores the cases that have resisted the U.S. pressure to adopt a militarized approach to fight against drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean.Through a sweeping narrative history from the recovery of democracy in 1983 to the present, Cutrona applies international relations and comparative politics theories to understand Argentina’s different ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Exile, Diaspora, and Return

    Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

    by Luis Roniger, Mario Sznajder, Leonardo Senkman, Saúl Sosnowski ...
    During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. Following the coups that toppled democratically elected governments or curtailed parliamentary oversight, the incoming military or civilian-military administrations assumed that, by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD