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  • The United States and Latin America

    A History with Documents

    The United States and Latin America presents a complex and dynamic view ofthe relationship between the United States and Latin America. Through acombination of targeted, thematic chapters and a range of freshly-translateddocuments, Jeffrey F. Taffet and Dustin Walcher illuminate the historicalcontinuities and conflicts that have defined the vital relationship. Givingequal weight to Latin American ... Leer más

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  • Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy

    The Alliance for Progress in Latin America

    Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations, meant to help promote economic growth and political reform, with the long-term goal of countering ... Leer más

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    Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but also love victims? And why, though the Mexican people traditionally avoid conflict, is there so much violence in a country where many leaders have died by assassination?In this shrewd and fascinating book, the ... Leer más

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  • Exposing the Real Che Guevara

    And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

    A debunking of liberal myths about one of the most bloodthirsty icons of the twentieth century.Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the mainstream media celebrate Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a saint, a sex symbol, and a selfless martyr. But their ideas about Che—whose face adorns countless T-shirts and posters—are based on the lies of Fidel Castro's murderous dictatorship.Che's hipster fans are classic ... Leer más

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  • Camilo Cienfuegos

    Born in Havana on February 6 1932 into an immigrant working-class family of Spanish anarchists, Camilo Cienfuegos —who firmly believed in the libertarian tenets of anarchism (if not himself an anarchist) — will, forever, be inseparably linked to the idealistic period of the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Wounded and arrested in anti-Batista demonstrations in the mid-1950s Camilo sought exile in New ... Leer más

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  • Che Guevara

    A concise biography of one of the most iconic revolutionaries of all time. ... Leer más

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  • Black in Latin America

    The third installment of Gates's documentary trilogy on the Black Experience, following America Behind the Color Line and Wonders of the African World.Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, ... Leer más

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  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edición de Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Leer más

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  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    Series series Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and ... Leer más

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  • Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay

    Honor and Egocentrism

    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The first serious biography of Francisco Solano López in English for decades, this richly researched book tells the dramatic story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler. Despite the heroic stature he gained after his death, López was a monumentally flawed leader who made the disastrous decisions in 1864 and 1865 to invade Paraguay's powerful neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, initiating the most ... Leer más

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  • Modern Architecture in Latin America

    Art, Technology, and Utopia

    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    **Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language.Runner-up, University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, 2015**Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that ... Leer más

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  • The Boys from Dolores

    Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

    Series series Vintage Departures
    From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership. Instead, they were swept into war, revolution, and exile by two of their own number, Fidel and ... Leer más

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