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  • Subterranean Struggles

    New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America

    Edited by Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury ...
    Series series Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation
    Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America’s extractive economy, Subterranean Struggles closely examines the factors driving this ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • That Infernal Little Cuban Republic

    The United States and the Cuban Revolution

    by Lars Schoultz ...
    Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul

    by Michael Reid ...
    The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America by The Economist editor and author of Brazil.Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa's moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Revolution

    Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Friedrich Katz, Jocelyn Olcott ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Cumbia!

    Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

    Edited by Pablo Vila, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste ...
    Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas

    Edited by Lawrence A. Clayton ...
    This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Indians, and the single most important figure of the period after Columbus.Explores the period known as the Encounter, which was characterized by intensive conflict between Europeans and the people of the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico

    by Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban ...
    Translated by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Sergio Rivera-Ayala ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. In addition, New Spain's economy and culture were also changing radically. The spread of these French-inspired ideas and customs soon reached the rest of urban society. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Vital Enemies

    Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life

    by Fernando Santos-Granero ...
    Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, Vital Enemies offers a fascinating new approach to the study of slavery based on the notion of "political economy of life." Fernando Santos-Granero draws on the earliest available historical sources to provide novel information on Amerindian regimes of servitude ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Sponsored Migration

    The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States

    by Edgardo Meléndez ...
    Series series Global Latin/o Americas
    Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors affecting Puerto Rican migration to the United States from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Examining the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Latino/a American Dream

    by Matthew Green, Daniel Martinez, Jeremy Slack, Alex E. Chavez, Scott Whiteford, Enrique S. Pumar, Steven A. Tuch, Maria Mazzenga, Todd Scribner, Jessica Hamar Martinez, Phillip Connor ...
    The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility.Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of Latinos in their quest for the American Dream. The Latino/a American ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • LusoAnarchist Reader

    The Origins of Anarchism in Portugal and Brazil

    Edited by Plínio Góes ...
    Series series Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society
    No book has ever presented a selection of writings of anarchists from the Portuguese-speaking world to an English-speaking audience. In The Luso-Anarchist Reader, writings by feminist radicals such as Maria Lacerda de Moura and anarchist communists such as Neno Vasco are made available in English for the first time. Researchers and activists interested in achieving a more comprehensive ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Women and the Cuban Insurrection

    How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory

    by Lorraine Bayard de Volo ...
    Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD