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  • Revolutionizing Repertoires

    The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

    by Robert S. Jansen ...
    Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit—they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new.Drawing on pragmatist theories of social action, Revolutionizing Repertoires sets out to examine what happens when the repertoire of practices ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Dancing with the Devil in the City of God

    Rio de Janeiro on the Brink

    by Juliana Barbassa ...
    From prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa comes a deeply reported and beautifully written account of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro as it struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games.Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find her ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Populism in Latin America

    Second Edition

    by Michael L. Conniff, Jorge Basurto, Steve Ellner, Joel Horowitz, William Francis Robinson, Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, Steve Stein, Kurt Weyland, Paul Drake, Dr. Kenneth Roberts, Ph.D0 ...
    A scholarly analysis of the origins, evolution, and enduring impact of populism in Latin American political life.This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.For more than one hundred years—from the beginning of the twentieth to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Marxism of Che Guevara

    Philosophy, Economics, Revolutionary Warfare

    by Michael Löwy ...
    Series series Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series
    In this seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking, Michael Löwy traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. Now revised and updated, this edition includes a chapter on Guevara's search for a new paradigm of socialism and a substantive essay by Peter McLaren on Che's continued ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced

    Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land

    by Nicole Fabricant ...
    The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia’s president in 2005 made him his nation’s first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivia’s MST activists seized ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Kalamata Diary

    Greece, War, and Emigration

    by Eduardo D. Faingold ...
    From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and contextualizes the major events in modern Greek history about which Salivaras writes in her diary. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Adoptive Migration

    Raising Latinos in Spain

    by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver ...
    Spain has one of the highest per capita international adoption rates in the world. Internationally adopted kids are coming from many of the same countries as do the many immigrants who are radically transforming Spain's demographics. Based on interviews with adoptive families, migrant families, and adoption professionals, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver examines the experiences of Latin American children ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Industrialization of São Paulo, 1800-1945

    by Warren Dean ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    São Paulo is one of the few places in the underdeveloped world where an advanced industrial system has grown out of a tropical raw-material-exporting economy. By 1960 there were 830,000 industrial workers in the state, producing $3.3 billion worth of goods. It had become Latin America’s largest industrial center.This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in São Paulo: how it was ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Café con leche

    Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela

    by Winthrop R. Wright ...
    For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well describes the racial composition of Venezuelan society, in which European, African, and Indian peoples have intermingled to produce a population in which almost everyone is of mixed blood. It also expresses a popular belief that within their blended society ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $28.99 USD

  • Of Love and Loathing

    Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825

    by Nicholas A. Robins ...
    Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast region that today encompasses Bolivia and parts of Peru, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. Intimacy ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Reading Rio de Janeiro

    Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century

    by Zephyr Frank ...
    Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual interest in literature as a source of evidence and, instead, uses the historical context to understand literature. By focusing on the theme of social integration through the novels of José de Alencar, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD