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Mexico: Volume 1, From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest
Av Alan Knight
Häftad, 2002
468 kr
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This book is the first in a three-volume history of Mexico, a major work that conveys the full sweep of Mexican history in all its social, economic, and political diversity. Volume 1 charts the development of Mesoamerica from roughly 25,000 BC down to the Spanish Conquest in 1519-21. Analysing the …
The Mexican Revolution
A Very Short Introduction
Av Alan Knight
Häftad, 2016
116 kr
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The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. …
Mexico: Volume 1, From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest
Av Alan Knight
Inbunden, 2002
821 kr
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This book is the first in a three-volume history of Mexico, a major work that conveys the full sweep of Mexican history in all its social, economic, and political diversity. Volume 1 charts the development of Mesoamerica from roughly 25,000 BC down to the Spanish Conquest in 1519-21. Analysing the …
Mexican Revolution
A Very Short Introduction
Av Alan Knight
E-bok, 2016
126 kr
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The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. …
Mexican Revolution
A Very Short Introduction
Av Alan Knight
E-bok, 2016
126 kr
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The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. …
Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century
Av Jonathan C. Brown, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
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Mexico's petroleum industry has come to symbolize the very sovereignty of the nation itself. Politicians criticize Pemex, the national oil company, at their peril, and President Salinas de Gortari has made clear that the free trade negotiations between Mexico and the United States will not affect …
Negotiating Democracy
Politicians and Generals in Uruguay
Av Charles Guy Gillespie, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Uruguay was once the most stable democracy in Latin America, but in 1973 the military seized power for the first time. Political parties did not disappear, however, even though they were made illegal. By the 1980s Uruguay's generals were anxious to find a way to withdraw from power. Yet they …
Between Revolution and the Ballot Box
The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s
Häftad, 2006
623 kr
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Founded in 1891, the Unión Cívica Radical, generally known as the Radical Party, is the oldest national political party in Argentina. As a central component of Argentina's political history, the Radical Party has received much attention from historians. However, most accounts have concentrated on …
Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888
Av Laird W. Bergad, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2006
619 kr
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This 2000 book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settlement in the early eighteenth century until the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888. It utilizes the largest database ever assembled on a …
Power and the Ruling Classes in Northeast Brazil
Juazeiro and Petrolina in Transition
Av Ronald H. Chilcote, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2006
927 kr
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This case study of the structure of power and ruling-class domination in the heart of the sertão of Northeast Brazil is based upon six field trips over a period of fifteen years. Analysis of the political economy of Juazeiro, Bahia, and Petrolina, Pernambuco - two contiguous towns along the São …
Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865
Politics and Ideas
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Chile enjoyed unique prestige among the Spanish American republics of the nineteenth century for its stable and increasingly liberal political tradition. How did this unusual story unfold? The tradition was forged in serious and occasionally violent conflicts between the dominant Conservative …
Brazil's State-Owned Enterprises
A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur
Av Thomas J. Trebat, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2007
871 kr
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This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages private enterprise, but the government itself owns and operates such critical industries as petrochemicals, steel, electricity and telecommunications. The …
Deference and Defiance in Monterrey
Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950
Av Michael Snodgrass, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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The first comprehensive history of labour relations and the working class in twentieth-century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance explores how both workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution. Snodgrass's narrative covers a sixty-year period …
Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil 1850-1914
Av Richard Graham, Alan Knight
Häftad, 1972
672 kr
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This is a detailed study of British influence in Brazil as a theme within the larger story of modernization. The British were involved at key points in the initial stages of modernization. Their hold upon the import-export economy tended to slow down industrialization, and there were other areas in …
Brazil's State-Owned Enterprises
A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur
Av Thomas J. Trebat, Alan Knight
Inbunden, 1983
2113 kr
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This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages private enterprise, but the government itself owns and operates such critical industries as petrochemicals, steel, electricity and telecommunications. The …
Demographic Collapse
Indian Peru, 1520-1620
Av Noble David Cook, Alan Knight
Inbunden, 1982
1912 kr
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While many scholars have been interested in the size of the Indian population of the Americas at the time of first contact with Europeans, this book, first published in 1982, was the first to make a thorough examination of the question. Focusing on Peru, Professor Cook estimates population size on …
Economic Development of Latin America
Historical Background and Contemporary Problems
Häftad, 1977
586 kr
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This is an introductory survey of the history and recent development of Latin American economy and society from colonial times to the establishment of the military regime in Chile. In the second edition the historical perspective has been enlarged and important events since the Cuban Revolution, …
Early Latin America
A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil
Av James Lockhart, Stuart B. Schwartz m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
871 kr
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This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492-1825). It is both an introduction for the student at the college level and a provisionally updated …
Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
Bahia, 1550-1835
Av Stuart B. Schwartz, Alan Knight
Häftad, 1986
720 kr
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This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing on little-used archival sources, plantations accounts, and …
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador
Av Suzanne Austin Alchon, Alan Knight
Inbunden, 1992
972 kr
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This book examines the relationship between the indigenous peoples of northern Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. It addresses an important and often overlooked element in the history of Amerindian populations: their biological …
Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910-1942
Av Richard J. Walter, Alan Knight
Inbunden, 1993
1389 kr
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Buenos Aires is Argentina's national capital and largest city. This book, first published in 1994, describes the development of the city during the period from 1910 to the early 1940s. It focuses on the role of politics and local government in the evolution of the city, detailing elections, party …
Resistance and Integration
Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1976
Häftad, 1994
607 kr
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This book analyses the relationship between Peronism and the Argentine working class from the foundation of the Peronist movement in the mid 1940s to the overthrow of Peron's widow in 1976. It presents an account of such crucial issues as the role of the Peronist union bureaucracy and the impact of …
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
Av Laird W. Bergad, Fe Iglesias García m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1676 kr
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Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba, whose economy was based on the export of sugar from the slave-worked plantations. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on …
The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas
The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870
Häftad, 2002
607 kr
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In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires underwent rapid economic growth, only dwarfed by the even greater prosperity that occurred there at the end of the century. Previous studies have focused on the economy as a whole, or on a particular segment of the population; and most …
Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700
Av P. J. Bakewell, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2002
838 kr
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An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. In the first half of the book, the author describes the discovery of the mines, the establishment of the town, …
Demographic Collapse
Indian Peru, 1520-1620
Av Noble David Cook, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2004
636 kr
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While many scholars have been interested in the size of the Indian population of the Americas at the time of first contact with Europeans, this book, first published in 1982, was the first to make a thorough examination of the question. Focusing on Peru, Professor Cook estimates population size on …
Latin America and the Comintern, 1919-1943
Av Manuel Caballero, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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This study of relations between Latin America and the Third (Communist) International or Comintern examines the rather patchy start the organisation made in the region and analyses the definitely and, for some Latin American Communists, rather humiliatingly, peripheral position occupied by Latin …
The Province of Buenos Aires and Argentine Politics, 1912-1943
Av Richard J. Walter, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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Buenos Aires is Argentina's wealthiest, largest, and most populous province, and has long been the key prize in all major electoral struggles, has received little scholarly attention. This first account of its political history between 1912 and 1943 underscores its role as a vital factor in …
Odious Commerce
Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade
Av David R. Murray, Alan Knight
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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The Atlantic slave trade brought to Cuba the African slaves who created the dramatic transformation of the island from a relative backwater of Spain's colonial empire in the mid-eighteenth century to the world's richest plantation colony one hundred years later. Britain played a vital role in this …
The Struggle for Land
A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day
Häftad, 2002
699 kr
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Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With the advance of this frontier, the pioneering peasants, on the one hand, and large landowners and large economic enterprise, on the other, have become …
