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  • Colombia's Political Economy at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century

    From Uribe to Santos and Beyond

    Series series Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
    This volume examines Colombia’s political economy at the outset of the twenty-first century. A group of leading experts explores various issues, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges that Colombia faces today. This volume is a major contribution to the field and provides a current ... Read more

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  • Che's Travels

    The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America

    Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, ... Read more

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    Excerpts from Books by Glenn Alan Cheney

    Excerpts from books by Glenn Alan Cheney. Excerpts are from:-- Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America-- Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil-- Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something-- Passion in an Improper Place-- Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil's lost nation of fugitive slaves-- Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis ... Read more

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  • Outlawed

    Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City

    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein describes those in this precarious position as ... Read more

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  • Between the Guerrillas and the State

    The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon

    Translated by Andy Klatt ...
    Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region’s cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers. More than 200,000 campesinos marched that summer to protest the heightened threat to their ... Read more

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  • Contracultura

    Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

    Christopher Dunn’s history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on ... Read more

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  • New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico

    Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering the colonial period to the present day, the case studies in this collection suggest that, even if ... Read more

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  • Object and Apparition

    Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes

    When Christianity was imposed on Native peoples in the Andes, visual images played a fundamental role, yet few scholars have written about this significant aspect. Object and Apparition proposes that Christianity took root in the region only when both Spanish colonizers and native Andeans actively envisioned the principal deities of the new religion in two- and three-dimensional forms. The book ... Read more

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  • Feeding the City

    From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860

    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2011Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, ... Read more

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  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

    by Amy Lind ...
    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... Read more

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  • Tropical Babylons

    Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

    Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz ...
    The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called “sugar revolution.” The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a ... Read more

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  • Five Years in Texas

    by Thomas North ...
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