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  • Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World

    Series series Global Indigenous Issues
    Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colonies: Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Flores, and Portuguese Timor. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analyses, the book investigates how colonial land policies and interventions were not ... Leer más

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    Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies

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  • The Caribbean

    A History of the Region and Its Peoples

    An "illuminating" survey of Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a ... Leer más

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  • What if Latin America Ruled the World?

    How the South Will Take the North Through the 21st Century

    For too many of us, Latin America exists "below the fold," an echobarely heard beyond the roar of U.S. economics, politics, and culture;the source of little more than dance steps, mesmerizing soccer, spicyfood, and questionable politics.But Latin America has been a vital part of the global community sincethe seventeenth century, when the Spanish silver peso became theworld's first global currency ... Leer más

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  • New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration

    Uncertain Futures at the Periphery of Europe

    Edición de Cláudia Pereira, Joana Azevedo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. It looks at Portuguese emigrants who, after the crisis of 2008, moved both intra-EU, such as UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain, but also into countries with historical links, such as the USA and Canada, and to Portuguese speaking countries such as Brazil, Angola ... Leer más

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  • Bolivia

    Processes of Change

    Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people have responded to the processes of change that have taken place in the country over the last few ... Leer más

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  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

    de B. W. Higman ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonisation, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution ... Leer más

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  • The Portuguese immigrant in Curaçao

    immigration, participation and integration in 20th century

    The rapid industrialization of Curacao, based on oil refining, resulted in an urgent need for labor which the small community could not provide sufficiently. The Portuguese, mostly from Madeira, were among the immigrant laborers who came by the thousands from the 1920s until the 1950s. A small group managed to stay either at the refinery or in the agricultural and grocery sector while others came ... Leer más

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  • This Land Is Ours Now

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  • Colonialism and Postcolonial Development

    Spanish America in Comparative Perspective

    de James Mahoney ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being. Mahoney contends that differences in the extent of ... Leer más

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  • The Last Empire

    Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonization

    This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field to analyse and debate the process of Portuguese decolonisation, which was then 25 years old, and the ... Leer más

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  • Liberty for Latin America

    How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression

    Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled ContinentIn Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a prescription for finally getting the region on the road to both genuine prosperity and the protection of human rights.When the economy in Argentina- ... Leer más

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