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Aloha Betrayed
Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
Häftad, 2004
310 kr
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In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to …
Adiós Muchachos
A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution
Häftad, 2011
408 kr
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AdiÓs Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio RamÍrez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the …
World of Lucha Libre
Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
Av Heather Levi
Häftad, 2008
301 kr
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The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters, …
Close Encounters of Empire
Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Av Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1678 kr
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New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, …
Close Encounters of Empire
Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Av Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
468 kr
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New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, …
Rural Revolt in Mexico
U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics
Häftad, 1998
651 kr
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Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico …
Dictator Next Door
The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945
Häftad, 1998
454 kr
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The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic …
Impossible Triangle
Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s
Häftad, 1999
295 kr
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During the 1920s, Mexico was caught in a diplomatic struggle between the ideologies of two strong states. In The Impossible Triangle Daniela Spenser explores the tangled relationship between Russia and Mexico in the years following their own dramatic revolutions, as well as the role played by the …
Imposing Decency
The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920
Häftad, 2000
396 kr
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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 …
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History
Inbunden, 2000
1620 kr
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In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt …
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History
Häftad, 2000
396 kr
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In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt …
Between Hollywood and Moscow
The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991
Häftad, 2000
396 kr
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In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. However, as Stephen …
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution
Av Christina Duffy Burnett, Burke Marshall
Häftad, 2001
405 kr
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In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship.More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. …
Fragments of a Golden Age
The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
Av Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
441 kr
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During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. …
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History
Essays from the North
Häftad, 2001
454 kr
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Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s …
Georges Woke Up Laughing
Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home
Av Nina Glick Schiller, Georges Eugene Fouron
Häftad, 2001
441 kr
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Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism, the voicelessness of certain citizens, and the impotency of government in an …
In the Shadows of State and Capital
The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995
Häftad, 2001
396 kr
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Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin …
Empire of Care
Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Häftad, 2003
310 kr
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In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so …
Emperors in the Jungle
The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama
Häftad, 2003
385 kr
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Emperors in the Jungle is an exposÉ of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a …
American Colonial State in the Philippines
Global Perspectives
Häftad, 2003
396 kr
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In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as …
Making Jazz French
Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Häftad, 2003
310 kr
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Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms …
Banana Wars
Power, Production, and History in the Americas
Av Steve Striffler, Mark Moberg
Häftad, 2003
441 kr
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Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought …
Financial Missionaries to the World
The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930
Häftad, 2004
632 kr
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Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book PrizeFinancial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"-the use of international lending and advising-to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. …
September 11 in History
A Watershed Moment?
Inbunden, 2003
1266 kr
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Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign …
September 11 in History
A Watershed Moment?
Häftad, 2003
441 kr
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Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign …
Crude Chronicles
Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
Häftad, 2004
385 kr
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Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it …
Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
Häftad, 2004
651 kr
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Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against …
Silence on the Mountain
Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
Häftad, 2004
280 kr
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new in paperbackSilence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were “disappeared”) at the hands …
Continental Crossroads
Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
Av Samuel Truett, Elliott Young
Häftad, 2004
651 kr
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Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. …
School of the Americas
Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
Av Lesley Gill
Häftad, 2004
338 kr
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Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the …
