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  • Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments

    Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence

    Edited by Kyla Sankey, Steve Ellner, Ronaldo Munck ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This book examines the tensions and convergences between social movements and twenty-first century progressive Latin American governments. Focusing on feminist, indigenous, environmental, rural, and labor movements, leading scholars present a well-rounded picture on a controversial topic and argue against the accepted view that robust Latin American social movements are independent of the state. ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Latin American Extractivism

    Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective

    Edited by Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This cutting-edge book presents a broad picture of global capitalism and extractivism in contemporary Latin America. Leading scholars examine the cultural patterns involving gender, ethnicity, and class that lie behind protests in opposition to extractivist projects and the contrast in responses from state actors to those movements. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Latin America's Pink Tide

    Breakthroughs and Shortcomings

    Edited by Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This timely book analyzes the governing experiences of the nine major pro-leftist governments in Latin America. The individual country case study chapters are preceded by chapters that frame the discussion by considering the theoretical implications of the Pink Tide experience relating to globalization, the state, and neo-extractivism. The contributors examine the Pink Tide policies and rhetoric ... Read more

    $38.99 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

    $25.19 USD

  • Latin America's Radical Left

    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

    $42.99 USD

  • Venezuela

    Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy"

    Edited by Miguel Tinker Salas, Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This authoritative book offers a comprehensive assessment of contemporary Venezuela. Analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of Hugo Chávez, leading scholars move beyond his flamboyant style to focus on the concerns of popular social and political movements. The book challenges the misleading notions that for several decades glorified Venezuelan "exceptionalism" and minimized the role of important ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    Repression during World Upheaval

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime.Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regime of Getúlio Vargas ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Spain In Our Hearts

    Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed.For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore

    A Story of American Rage

    by Jared Yates Sexton ...
    “Sexton grapples with the Trump campaign from the perspective of the crowds reveling in the candidate’s presence and message. It is a useful vantage point given the increasingly blatant bigotry in the months since the election.” —The Washington PostThe People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Meaning of Marxism

    by Paul D'Amato ...
    “In [D’Amato’s] able hands, Marxist politics come alive and leap before us, pointing a way toward a better world. It’s a knockout.”—Dave Zirin, author of What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United StatesIn this lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, with historical and contemporary examples, D’Amato argues that Marx’s ideas of globalization, oppression, and ... Read more

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  • The Irish Paradox

    How and Why We Are Such a Contradictory People

    by Sean Moncrieff ...
    What does it mean to be Irish?'We've been clever and stupid, principled and corrupt. We can be kind and cruel, guilty of dopey optimism and chronic fatalism. We're friendly, but near impossible to get to know. We're proud to be Irish but often crippled with self-loathing. We think we're great, but not really. We find ourselves fascinating. Of course we do. We're a paradox.'There's something about ... Read more

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  • Everything You Need to Know About Latino History

    2008 Edition

    by Himilce Novas ...
    The popular primer to Latino life and culture.Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making, including:• New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s announced candidacy for the 2008 presidential election• ... Read more

    $7.99 USD