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  • Latin America's Middle Class

    Unsettled Debates and New Histories

    by Abel Ricardo López-Pedreros, J. Pablo Silva, Bill French, Brian P. Owensby, Fredrick B. Pike, John J. Johnson, Mario Benedetti, Andrew Hunter Whiteford, Charles Wagley, Francisco López-Cámara, Rodolfo Barros ...
    As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ennis B. Edmonds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the major population centres and many outposts of the world. Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Empire Trap

    The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013

    by Noel Maurer ...
    How the United States became an imperial power by bowing to pressure to defend its citizens' overseas investmentsThroughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Imposing Decency

    The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920

    by Eileen J. Suárez Findlay ...
    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, attempts at reforming marriage, and working-class ideas about free love, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Banana Wars

    United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934

    by Lester D. Langley ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction, placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • State Violence and Genocide in Latin America

    The Cold War Years

    Edited by Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, Daniel Feierstein ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
    This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States’ hegemonic position on the continent.Using case studies based on the regimes of Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay, this book shows how U.S foreign policy – far from promoting long term political stability and democratic institutions – has ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • José Martí Reader

    Writings on the Americas

    by José Martí ...
    This anthology of the writing of José Martí’s features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.José Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban independence and died on the battlefield. His dedication to the goal of Cuban freedom made his name a synonym for liberty throughout Latin America.This collection of the writing of José Martí’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Church in Colonial Latin America

    Edited by John F. Schwaller ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    The Church in Colonial Latin America is a collection of essays that include classic articles and pieces based on more modern research. Containing essays that explore the Catholic Church's active social and political influence, this volume provides the background necessary for students to grasp the importance of the Catholic Church in Latin America. This text also presents a comprehensive, analytic ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • No Apocalypse, No Integration

    Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America

    by Martin Hopenhayn, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by Cynthia M. Tompkins, Elizabeth Rosa Horan ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in a region marked by incomplete modernization, new waves of privatization, great masses of excluded peoples, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Resurgence of the Latin American Left

    Edited by Steven Levitsky, Kenneth M. Roberts ...
    Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region in the twenty-first century.The Resurgence of the Latin American Left asks three central questions: Why have left-wing parties and candidates flourished in Latin America? How have these leftist ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas

    The Politics of Observation

    by Nina Gerassi-Navarro ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Inspired by the writings of Alexander von Humboldt these women, in their travels, expand ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution

    by Malick W. Ghachem ...
    The Haitian Revolution (1789–1804) was an epochal event that galvanized slaves and terrified planters throughout the Atlantic world. Rather than view this tumultuous period solely as a radical rupture with slavery, Malick W. Ghachem's innovative study shows that emancipation in Haiti was also a long-term product of its colonial legal history. Ghachem takes us deep into this volatile colonial past, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD