Latin American & Caribbean Studies – serie
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16 produkter
Politics of Violence in Latin America
Häftad, 2019
444 kr
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Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence hard-wired into Latin America? This is a critical reassessment …
Spirit of Hidalgo
The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila
Inbunden, 2002
587 kr
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The Spirit of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila fills a significant gap in the scholarship of the Mexican revolution by providing a detailed history of the northeastern state of Coahuila from the late Portifirian era to approximately 1920. It evaluates social, political, and economic …
Madness in Buenos Aires
Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983
Häftad, 2008
399 kr
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Madness in Buenos Aires examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients, and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state's relationship to modernity and social change during the twentieth century, while also …
Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues
The Court Society of Colonial Mexico 1702-1710
Häftad, 2008
457 kr
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Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenmüller reveals that the Duke presided over one of the most corrupt viceregal terms in …
From Many, One
Peasants, Borders, and Education in Callista, Mexico, 1924-1935
Häftad, 2009
431 kr
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From Many, One looks at the educational policies and practices of the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles in post-evolutionary Mexico. Andrae Marak examines attempts of the Calles government to centralize control over education in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands region and to transform its rural and …
Violence in Argentine Literature and Film
(1989-2005)
Av Carolina Rocha, Elizabeth Montes Garces
Häftad, 2010
510 kr
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Why has violence been a predominant topic in contemporary Argentine film and literature? What conclusions can be drawn from the dissemination of violent images and narratives that depict violence in Argentina? In Argentina, the problem of violence is rooted in the country's long experience with …
Latin American Cinemas
Local Views and Transnational Connections
Häftad, 2011
467 kr
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During the past twenty years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. What this signals, more than thriving financial or production infrastructures, is a renovated cinematic vision connected more closely to …
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
Between Romanticism and Formalism
Av Joanna Page
Häftad, 2014
526 kr
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With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and …
Textual Exposures
Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction
Av Dan Russek
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
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Textual Exposures examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional form the conventions and assumptions of this medium. While the book is …
Road to Armageddon
Paraguay Versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70
Häftad, 2017
553 kr
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In 1864 the capture of Brazilian steamer the Marquês de Olinda initiated South America's most significant war. Thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers engaged in a protracted siege of Paraguay, leaving the Paraguayan economy and population devastated. The suffering defied …
Whose Man in Havana?
Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy
Häftad, 2015
411 kr
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In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert monitoring of Soviet military operations in …
Journalism in a Small Place
Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent
Häftad, 2016
399 kr
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Journalism in a Small Place explores the changes and challenges in journalism and communication in the Caribbean in the twenty-first century. Tracing the history of media in the English speaking Caribbean, this book provides insight into the development of these industries from their inception …
Road to Armageddon
Paraguay Versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70
Inbunden, 2017
1110 kr
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In 1864 the capture of Brazilian steamer the Marquês de Olinda initiated South America's most significant war. Thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers engaged in a protracted siege of Paraguay, leaving the Paraguayan economy and population devastated. The suffering defied …
Waking the Dictator
Veracruz, the Struggle for Federalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1870-1927
Av Karl B. Koth
Häftad, 2002
323 kr
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Waking the Dictator is a study of federalism in late-nineteenth-century Veracruz State. It is also a politico-military analysis and an evaluation of social-revolutionary relations in the epoch of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. Koth interprets the Mexican Revolution across two axes: one …
Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age
The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation, 1788-1853
Inbunden, 2003
565 kr
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Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age clearly delineates the role of the Catholic Church in the making of Mexico as a nation. It provides a nuanced sense of clerical thought during the turbulent years leading to and following Mexico's national independence. Connaughton delves deeply into various …
Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age
The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation, 1788-1853
Häftad, 2003
384 kr
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Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age clearly delineates the role of the Catholic Church in the making of Mexico as a nation. It provides a nuanced sense of clerical thought during the turbulent years leading to and following Mexico's national independence. Connaughton delves deeply into various …
