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  • Cuban Film Media, Late Socialism, and the Public Sphere

    Imperfect Aesthetics

    by Nicholas Balaisis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice. It shows how economic and material scarcity as well as political uncertainty is expressed aesthetically in films from the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a characteristic described as imperfect aesthetics. The films examined in the book draw attention to the unique temporal ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Everything You Need to Know About Latino History

    2008 Edition

    by Himilce Novas ...
    The popular primer to Latino life and culture.Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making, including:• New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s announced candidacy for the 2008 presidential election• ... Read more

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  • Brazil

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Riordan Roett ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia,' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Republics of the New World

    The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

    by Hilda Sabato ...
    A sweeping history ofLatin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, they embarked on a political experiment of an unprecedented scale outside the newly formed United States. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Lavil

    Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince

    Edited by Peter Orner, Evan Lyon ...
    Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, all but ignored by the international community. At the center of this crisis is Lavil—“The City” in Kreyol, as Port-au-Prince is known to Haitians—the cultural, political, and economic capital of Haiti ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Mexico's Economic Dilemma

    The Developmental Failure of Neoliberalism

    by James M. Cypher, Raúl Delgado Wise ...
    Series series Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series
    Written by two leading scholars, this book provides a detailed analysis of Mexico's political economy. James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise begin with an examination of Mexico's pivotal economic crisis of the 1980s and the consequent turn toward an export-led economy, later anchored by NAFTA. They show how Mexico, after abandoning frequently successful past practices of state-led development, ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Revolution at Querétaro

    The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917

    by E.V. Niemeyer Jr. ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917 came to grips with the basic problem of twentieth-century Mexico. They hammered out pragmatic solutions to establish the legal foundations of the Mexican Revolution, the definitive break between the old Mexico and the new, the constitutional bases for the socioeconomic changes from ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • INSIDE CENTRAL AMERICA

    The Essential Facts Past and Present on El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Since 1979, United States policy in Central America has been based on an assumption that revolutionary movements led by Marxists must represent a serious threat to U.S. interests and security. On this point, the difference between liberals and conservatives is merely one of emphasis or accent.Such an assumption is not shared by most governments in Western Europe and Latin America. In part, these ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Latin America

    Development, Hegemony, and Social Transformation

    by R. Munck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In a subtle but powerful reading of the shifting relationships between development, hegemony, and social transformation in post-independence Latin America, Ronaldo Munck argues that Latin American subaltern knowledge makes a genuine contribution to the current search for a social order which is sustainable and equitable. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • China on the Ground in Latin America

    Challenges for the Chinese and Impacts on the Region

    by E. Ellis ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    An analysis of the new physical presence of Chinese companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, the associated challenges that they face, and how they are impacting the region and its relationship with the PRC. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Latino Identity and Political Attitudes

    Why Are Latinos Not Republican?

    by Angel Saavedra Cisneros ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship. Despite hopes of the Republican Party for bringing in Latinos through religious and moral issues, Latinos in America consistently side with the Democratic Party. Two possible explanations based on social identity emerge as theories of Latino partisanship. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance

    Transnational Dynamics in Europe, South America and Southern Africa

    Edited by C. Roggeband ...
    Series series Gender and Politics
    This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD