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“robert andolina”

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  • Indigenous Development in the Andes

    Culture, Power, and Transnationalism

    by Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie, Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development paradigms have emerged with the goal of supporting indigenous cultures while enabling ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • A Damn Close-Run Thing: A Brief History of the Falklands War

    by Russell Phillips ...
    In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.They were wrong.Britain ... Read more

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  • Bolivar

    American Liberator

    by Marie Arana ...
    A brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American general and statesman Simón Bolívar.Simón Bolívar—El Libertador—freed six countries from Spanish rule and is still the most revered figure in South America today. He traveled from Amazon jungles to the ... Read more

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  • The Catholic Church

    A Short History

    by Hans Kung ...
    Series Book 5 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes; and the expansion of a global Church infrastructure. The book concluded with a searching assessment of how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Angels with Dirty Faces

    How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever

    by Jonathan Wilson ...
    The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian SoccerLionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St'fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Argentina's rich, volatile history -- by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic -- is mirrored in the style and swagger of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Behold the Black Caiman

    A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

    by Lucas Bessire ...
    In 2004, one of the world's last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers' bulldozers. Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire's intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against ... Read more

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  • A Revolution for Our Rights

    Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952

    by Laura Gotkowitz ...
    A Revolution for Our Rights is a critical reassessment of the causes and significance of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Historians have tended to view the revolution as the result of class-based movements that accompanied the rise of peasant leagues, mineworker unions, and reformist political projects in the 1930s. Laura Gotkowitz argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Cities From Scratch

    Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

    Edited by Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Javier Auyero ...
    This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Nanny and the Iceberg

    A Novel

    by Ariel Dorfman ...
    Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a Don Juan father and a country preparing for the five-hundredth anniversary of America’s "discovery." Into Gabriel’s quest for manhood and identity ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics

    Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines

    by Joel F. Ariate Jr, Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo, Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Ma Glenda S. Lopez Wui, Thandika Mkandawire, Ronald C. Molmisa, Sharon M. Quinsaat ...
    The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society sector. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of Green Man

    My Journey from Poverty and Hunger to Food Security and Hope

    by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Per Andreassen ...
    “My parents couldn’t read or write, we barely had clothes to wear. All we had were stories. We listened and absorbed them, and found our own place in the narrative.”  And what a narrative it is. Join the wonderfully colorful and poetic Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, or Regi, as he weaves together stories from his upbringing in revolution-torn Guatemala, the vision of a regenerative form of farming ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Don’t Come Back

    by Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas ...
    Series series 21st Century Essays
    In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home.Don’t Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major ... Read more

    $16.59 USD