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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “miguel centeno”
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  • War and Society

    by Miguel A. Centeno, Elaine Enriquez ...
    Series series Political Sociology
    War is a paradox. On the one hand, it destroys bodies and destroys communities. On the other hand, it is responsible for some of the strongest human bonds and has been the genesis of many of our most fundamental institutions.War and Society addresses these paradoxes while providing a sociological exploration of this enigmatic phenomenon which has played a central role in human history, wielded an ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Blood and Debt

    War and the Nation-State in Latin America

    by Miguel Angel Centeno ...
    What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today in regions as varied as the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa.The book's illuminating review of the ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • How Worlds Collapse

    What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Future

    Edited by Miguel Centeno, Peter Callahan, Paul Larcey, Thayer Patterson ...
    As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks—such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics—what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future? How Worlds Collapse offers case studies of societies that either collapsed or overcame cataclysmic adversity. The authors in this volume find commonalities between past civilizations and our ... Read more

    Was $67.99 CAD Now $60.45 CAD

  • Global Capitalism

    A Sociological Perspective

    by Miguel A. Centeno, Joseph N. Cohen ...
    Series series Economy and Society
    The global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic ideologies and policies. After thirty years of reshaping the world to conform to the market, governments and societies are now calling for a retreat to a yet undefined new economic order.In order to provide a guide to what the twenty-first-century economy might look like, this book revisits the great project of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 3

    The Neoliberal State and Beyond

    Edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro ...
    Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Other Mirror

    Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America

    Edited by Miguel Angel Centeno, Fernando López-Alves ...
    If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon which most grand theory is based. Here a distinguished group of scholars reevaluates widely accepted theories of state, ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 2

    Edited by Agustin E. Ferraro, Miguel A. Centeno ...
    In 1960, Latin America and Spain had the same level of economic and social development, but, in just twenty years, Spain raced ahead. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the design and implementation of developmental state policies in both regions and examines the significant variance in success between Latin America and Spain. The second volume in a trilogy, this collection of studies on ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 1

    Edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro ...
    The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Democracy Within Reason

    Technocratic Revolution in Mexico

    by Miguel Angel Centeno ...
    During the 1980s the Mexican regime faced a series of economic, social, and political disasters that led many to question its survival. Yet by 1992 the economy was again growing, with inflation under control and the confidence of international investors restored. Mexico was now touted as an example for regimes in Eastern Europe to emulate.How did Carlos Salinas and his team of technocrats manage ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • States in the Developing World

    by Dinsha Mistree ...
    What should states in the developing world do and how should they do it? How have states in the developing world addressed the challenges of promoting development, order, and inclusion? States in the developing world are supposed to build economies, control violence, and include the population. How they do so depends on historical origins and context as well as policy decisions. This volume ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • The Long Year

    A 2020 Reader

    by Andy Horowitz, Éric Charmes, Max Rousseau, Adam Tooze, Joan Wallach Scott, Andrew Lakoff, Keisha N. Blain, Natalia Molina, Marcia Chatelain, Michelle Cera, Gilles Guiheux, Ye Guo, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guérin, Mathieu Ferry, Marine Al Dahdah, Neha Vora, Sulfikar Amir, Sherihan Radi, Mustafa Dikeç, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Rachel Nolan, David Schmidt, Julie Livingston, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Xiaowei Wang, Priscilla Wald, Evan Lieberman, Warwick Anderson, Julia Foulkes, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Sophie Lewis, Guobin Yang, Sophie Gonick, Margaret O'Mara, Alfonso Fierro, Erick Corrêa, Ananya Roy, Gianpaolo Biaocchi, Jake Carlson, Quentin Ravelli, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, Selen A. Ercan, Miguel Centeno, Gautam Bhan, Joanne Randa Nucho, Yarimar Bonilla, Jacob A.C. Remes, Warren Breckman, Cordula Dittmer, Daniel F. Lorenz, Kathryn Cai, Eric Klinenberg, David S. Barnes, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Merlin Chowkwanyun ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality.Is the w... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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