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  • From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals

    Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution

    by Leigh Binford ...
    From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN during El Salvador’s revolutionary war (1980-92). In the process they became transformed from popular intellectuals to insurgent intellectuals who put their organizational and cognitive skills at the service of a ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • The El Mozote Massacre

    Human Rights and Global Implications Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Leigh Binford ...
    In 1981, more than a thousand civilians around El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the country’s U.S.-trained army. The story was covered—and soon forgotten—by the international news media. In the first edition of The El Mozote Massacre, anthropologist Leigh Binford successfully restores a social identity to the massacre victims through his dissection of Third World human rights reporting ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

  • Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest

    Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy

    by Leigh Binford ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally, receive health benefits, contribute to pensions, are represented by Canadian consular officials, ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Obliging Need

    Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism

    by Scott Cook, Leigh Binford ...
    For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work producing products for direct consumption by their households and for exchange. This twofold household reproduction strategy, according to both Marxist and neoclassical approaches to development, should have disappeared from the global economy as labor ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

    Edited by Lesley Gill, Steve Striffler, Leigh Binford ...
    Series Book 28 - Dislocations
    Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

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  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

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    Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

    by Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets. Over time, institutional complementarities knit features of corporate governance and labor markets together and thus contribute to institutional resiliency. Political systems generally ... Read more

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  • Spain

    From Dictatorship to Democracy

    by Javier Tusell ...
    Series Book 14 - A History of Spain
    This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century.A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present dayTusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During ... Read more

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  • Power at the Roots

    Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side

    by Miranda J. Martinez ...
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    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
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