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  • Mañana es San Perón

    A Cultural History of Perón's Argentina

    by Mariano Ben Plotkin ...
    Series series
    The regime of Juan Perón is one of the most studied topics of Argentina's contemporary history. This new book—an English translation of a highly popular, critically acclaimed Spanish language edition—provides a new perspective on the intriguing Argentinian leader. Mariano Plotkin's cultural approach makes Perón's popularity understandable because it goes beyond Perón's charismatic appeal and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America

    Hybrid Networks in Argentina and Brazil

    by Piroska Csúri, Mariano Ben Plotkin, Nicolás Viotti ...
    Series series Therapeutic Cultures
    By focusing on quantitative and qualitative research in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, this book expands on the notion of "therapeutic culture."Usually considered a global phenomenon disseminated from North to South, and associated to "modern" forms of "psychologized" subjectivity, "therapeutic culture" has become a key notion to understanding contemporary culture. However, this path-breaking ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Redeemers

    Ideas and Power in Latin America

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  • Current and Future Perspectives of Ethnomathematics as a Program

    by Milton Rosa, Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Daniel Clark Orey, Lawrence Shirley, Wilfredo V. Alangui, Pedro Palhares, Maria Elena Gavarrete ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This survey on the modernity of ethnomathematics addresses numerous themes related to both ethnomathematics and mathematics education. It offers a broader view of mathematics, including ideas, procedures, concepts, processes, methods, and practices rooted in distinct cultural environments. In addition, by reflecting on the social and political dimensions of ethnomathematics, another important ... Read more

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  • Foreign Policy Decision Making Under The Geisel Government

    by Letícia Pinheiro ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    This thesis seeks to provide an explanation for the contents of three foreign policy decisions implemented under the government of General Ernesto Geisel (1974-1979). It does so by analyzing the decision-making process which led Brazil: 1) to abstain in the Meetings of Consultation of American Foreign Ministers for voting the lifting of sanctions against Cuba; 2) to restore diplomatic relations ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Edited by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

    by Geo Maher ...
    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Portuguese Revolution

    State and Class in the Transition to Democracy

    by Ronald H. Chilcote ...
    Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well as representative and popular democracy. Exploring ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Writings for a Liberation Psychology

    by Ignacio Martín-Baró ...
    “In your country,” Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, “it’s publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and perish.” In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Electric Santería

    Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

    by Aisha Beliso-De Jesús ...
    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Spain

    From Dictatorship to Democracy

    by Javier Tusell ...
    Series Book 14 - A History of Spain
    This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century.A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present dayTusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During ... Read more

    $42.00 USD