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  • The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Stefan Rinke, Mario Rufer ...
    The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Entangled Heritages

    Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

    by Olaf Kaltmeier, Mario Rufer ...
    Series series InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
    Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Liberation Theology

    The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond

    by Phillip Berryman ...
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  • Lavil

    Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince

    Edited by Peter Orner, Evan Lyon ...
    Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, all but ignored by the international community. At the center of this crisis is Lavil—“The City” in Kreyol, as Port-au-Prince is known to Haitians—the cultural, political, and economic capital of Haiti ... Read more

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  • Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia

    by Jennifer S. Holmes, Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Kevin M. Curtin ...
    For decades, Colombia has contended with a variety of highly publicized conflicts, including the rise of paramilitary groups in response to rebel insurgencies of the 1960s, the expansion of an illegal drug industry that has permeated politics and society since the 1970s, and a faltering economy in the 1990s. An unprecedented analysis of these struggles, Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia ... Read more

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  • Latin American Elections

    Choice and Change

    by Richard Nadeau, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mathieu Turgeon, Eric Belanger, Francois Gelineau ...
    The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on electoral studies to evaluate the model’s applicability in this region. Analyzing data from the AmericasBarometer, a scientific public opinion survey ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru

    An Andean Town, 1870s-1970s

    by F. Wilson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Exploring how restrictions on citizenship helped create conditions for political violence in Peru, this book recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean town were persistently overruled, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the state and political centralism in Peru. ... Read more

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  • Immigration and Acculturation in Brazil and Argentina

    1890-1929

    by M. Bletz ...
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    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

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    Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. Avoiding the widely accepted but simplistic dichotomy of “good” and “bad” ... Read more

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    What Everyone Needs to Know®

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