Contributions in Latin American Studies – serie
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12 produkter
Gunboats, Corruption, and Claims
Foreign Intervention in Venezuela, 1899-1908
Av Brian McBeth
E-bok, 2001
1204 kr
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The Cipriano Castro administration, which ruled Venezuela from 1899 to 1908, was characterized by a series of internal and external political crises which seemed capable of toppling it at any moment. In 1901, a number of foreign countries provided financial backing to Castro's former allies, united …
Tornel and Santa Anna
The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico 1795-1853
E-bok, 2000
1178 kr
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This is a study of one of the leading politicians of Independent Mexico, Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, whose loyalty to Santa Anna and whose skills as a writer led him to play a crucial role in enabling the caudillo's repeated rise to power during this period. This first biography of Tornel in …
Exiles, Allies, Rebels
Brazil'S Indianist Movement, Indigenist Politics, and the Imperial Nation-State
Av David Treece
E-bok, 2000
1178 kr
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This is the first global study of the single most important intellectual and artistic movement in Brazilian cultural history before Modernism. The Indianist movement, under the direct patronage of the Emperor Pedro II, was a major pillar of the Empire's project of state-building, involving …
Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic
Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Trujillos
E-bok, 2000
935 kr
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A study of the powerful impact that sugar had on U.S.-Dominican relations as the primary vehicle of reciprocal manipulation from 1958 to 1962, Sugar and Power examines the development of the sugar industry in the Dominican Republic. Hall uncovers new evidence that supports the belief that …
Troubled Harvest
Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002
E-bok, 2003
1169 kr
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During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to address the problems of rural poverty and underdevelopment. The Mexican Revolution led to a significant agrarian reform and created the State and elite …
Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital
E-bok, 2000
1204 kr
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The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based …
Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism
The United States and the Genesis of West Indian Independence, 1940-1964
Av Cary Fraser
Inbunden, 1994
1095 kr
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Until recently, historians have defined the Commonwealth Caribbean territories by their relationship with Britian and have attributed little importance to American relations with these territories. Fraser provides a reinterpretation of U.S. policy toward the West Indies since 1940. He establishes …
State Formation in Central America
The Struggle for Autonomy, Development, and Democracy
Inbunden, 1993
1063 kr
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Lentner analyzes four basic components in the formation of states: the capacity to govern, security and freedom of action, economic development strategy, and citizenship and political participation. He focuses on five Central American countries--Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and …
Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853
Inbunden, 1998
1095 kr
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This book is a study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Mexico from the achievement of independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's last government in 1853-55. Paying particular attention to the writings of the main thinkers of the period and the …
Tornel and Santa Anna
The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico 1795-1853
Inbunden, 2000
1129 kr
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This is a study of one of the leading politicians of Independent Mexico, Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, whose loyalty to Santa Anna and whose skills as a writer led him to play a crucial role in enabling the caudillo's repeated rise to power during this period. This first biography of Tornel in …
Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic
Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Trujillos
Inbunden, 2000
877 kr
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A study of the powerful impact that sugar had on U.S.-Dominican relations as the primary vehicle of reciprocal manipulation from 1958 to 1962, Sugar and Power examines the development of the sugar industry in the Dominican Republic. Hall uncovers new evidence that supports the belief that …
Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853
E-bok, 1998
1204 kr
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This book is a study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Mexico from the achievement of independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's last government in 1853-55. Paying particular attention to the writings of the main thinkers of the period and the …
