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  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Brazil

    An Economic and Social History from Early Man to the 21st Century

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. Drawing from a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, it provides a comprehensive overview of the major developments that defined the evolution of Brazil. Beginning with the original human settlements in pre-Colombian society, it moves on to discuss the Portuguese Empire and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

    by Naomi Klein, Marisa J. Fuentes, Christina Sharpe, Michelle Commander, Jennifer Flynn Walker, Bela August Walker, Marcia Gallo0, Carmen Vázquez1, Kathleen C. Riley2, Smruthi Bala Kannan3, Stacy S. Klein4, Ellen Malenas Ledoux5, Basuli Deb6, Leslye Amede Obiora7 ...
    Series series The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
    From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others.This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Modern Brazil

    A Social History

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna present a sweeping narrative of social change in Brazil that documents its transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an overwhelmingly urban, modern, and literate society in the twenty-first century. Tracing this radical evolution reveals how industrialization created a new labor force, how demographic shifts reorganized the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson, III ...
    This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Brazilian Crops in the Global Market

    The Emergence of Brazil as a World Agribusiness Exporter Since 1950

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with low-yield levels in 1950 to its current position as a leading world producer.The first section of the book examines the modernization of Brazilian ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Citizenship After Trump

    Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era

    by Bradley S. Klein, Scott G. Nelson ...
    In Citizenship After Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus pandemic.With both Trumpism and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the political, economic and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020

    by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Social Science History
    In the 1950s–80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "developing" countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial product. This volume draws on social, economic, and demographic data to document the accelerated ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Bolivia

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Bolivia is an unusually high-altitude country created by imperial conquest and native adaptions – today, it remains one of the most multi-ethnic societies in the world with one of the largest Amerindian populations in the Americas. It has seen the most social and economic mobility of Indian and mestizo populations in any country in Latin America. This work, having also appeared in Spanish, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Can We Reach Nirvana?

    by Kimberley S Klein ...
    Two, young-looking men, both rockstars and werewolves, deal with their lot in life in very different ways. Ray, the “youngest” of the duo, is in a stage of his condition where is he depressed that he’s been forced to transform into a beast once a month while Marston parties like it’s 1985, which is the year he was turned. Marston tries to get Ray to accept himself while Ray does his best to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hispanics in the United States

    A Demographic, Social, and Economic History, 1980–2005

    by Laird W. Bergad, Herbert S. Klein ...
    In 1980 the US government began to systematically collect data on Hispanics. By 2005 the Latino population of the United States had become the nation's largest minority and is projected to comprise about one-third of the total US population in 2050. Utilizing census data and other statistical source materials, this book examines the transformations in the demographic, social, and economic ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Bolivia

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD