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  • Transnational Communism across the Americas

    by Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood, Jacob A. Zumoff, Jacob Blanc, Tanya Harmer, Patricia Harms0, Lazar Jeifets1, Victor Jeifets2, Adriana Petra3, Frances Peace Sullivan4, Kevin A Young5 ...
    Transnational Communism across the Americas offers an innovative approach to the study of Latin American communism. It convincingly illustrates that communist parties were both deeply rooted in their own local realities and maintained significant relationships with other communists across the region and around the world. The essays in this collection use a transnational lens to examine the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders

    Social Work, Migration Management, and Resistance

    by Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, Theresa Becker, Viola Castellano, Roberta T. Di Rosa, Sergio Barciela Fernández, Norbert Frieters-Reermann, Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano, Eva Maria Greber, Alexandra Kattein, Diana Marciele Kerber, Michalis Psimitis0, Nikos Xypolytas1, Jessica Washburn3, Paul Stubbs4, Petra Danková5, Tanja Kleibl7, Robel Abay9 ...
    Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance addresses the topics of social work and international migration, with specific focus on the consequences of EU border externalization policies. The increasingly authoritarian character of EU border management raises a number of issues related to the role of social work within a context that ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

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  • Foreign Policy Decision Making Under The Geisel Government

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

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    by Lillian Guerra ...
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  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
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  • The Portuguese Revolution

    State and Class in the Transition to Democracy

    by Ronald H. Chilcote ...
    Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well as representative and popular democracy. Exploring ... Read more

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  • Sandinista

    Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

    by Matilde Zimmermann ...
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  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
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  • Story of a Death Foretold

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    by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ...
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  • Mañana es San Perón

    A Cultural History of Perón's Argentina

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    The regime of Juan Perón is one of the most studied topics of Argentina's contemporary history. This new book—an English translation of a highly popular, critically acclaimed Spanish language edition—provides a new perspective on the intriguing Argentinian leader. Mariano Plotkin's cultural approach makes Perón's popularity understandable because it goes beyond Perón's charismatic appeal and ... Read more

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