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Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film
Häftad, 1984
293 kr
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With such stunning films as Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Bye Bye Brazil, and Pixote, Brazilian cinema achieved both critical acclaim and popular recognition in the 1970s and 1980s, becoming the premier cinema of Latin America and one of the largest film producers in the western world. But the …
Elites and Economic Development
Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities
Av John Walton
Häftad, 1977
276 kr
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This book is a detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America, two in Mexico and two in Colombia. John Walton has based his studies on the assumption that the problems of economic growth are essentially political, that is, are problems of choice, …
Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia
Av Ann Twinam
Häftad, 1982
226 kr
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The inhabitants of the department of AntioquÍa in north-central Colombia have played a unique role in that country’s economic history. During the colonial period AntioqueÑo placer miners supplied a substantial portion of New Granada’s gold exports. Their nineteenth-century descendants pioneered …
Industrialization of São Paulo, 1800-1945
Av Warren Dean
Häftad, 1969
314 kr
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SÃo Paulo is one of the few places in the underdeveloped world where an advanced industrial system has grown out of a tropical raw-material-exporting economy. By 1960 there were 830,000 industrial workers in the state, producing $3.3 billion worth of goods. It had become Latin America’s largest …
Men of Cajamarca
A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru
Häftad, 1972
542 kr
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In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian highlands. Their act, quickly taken as a symbol of the conquest of a vast empire, brought them unprecedented rewards in gold and silver; it made them celebrities, gave …
Imperial Russia and the Struggle for Latin American Independence, 1808–1828
Häftad, 1978
284 kr
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This study, the first of its kind in English, examines Russian responses to the independence movement in Latin America during the early nineteenth century. From a strictly presentist perspective, the investigation of this subject contributes to the historiography of colonialism and of Latin …
Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Häftad, 1986
333 kr
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In developing countries, the extent to which intellectuals disengage themselves in state activities has widespread consequences for the social, political, and economic development of those societies. Roderic Camps’ examination of intellectuals in Mexico is the first study of a Latin American …
Church in Brazil
The Politics of Religion
Häftad, 1982
276 kr
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In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a …
Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina
Córdoba in the Liberal Era
Häftad, 1981
284 kr
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Between the 1870s, when the great influx of European immigrants began, and the start of World War I, Argentina underwent a radical alteration of its social composition and patterns of economic productivity. Mark Szuchman, in this groundbreaking study, examines the occupational, residential, …
Measurement of Modernism
A Study of Values in Brazil and Mexico
Häftad, 1968
284 kr
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One of the most interesting questions that can be raised about the twentieth century world concerns the degree to which industrialization created a common culture for all peoples. Reported here are the results of an empirical investigation designed to produce instruments to measure those personal …
Mary, Michael, and Lucifer
Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico
Häftad, 1986
276 kr
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The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and neighborhood chapels, wayside shrines, and mountaintop crosses dot the landscape. Catholicism also permeates the traditional cultures of rural communities, although this ideational influence is less …
Politics of the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935–1939
Häftad, 1970
328 kr
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After three years of indecisive but bloody war, guns lay silent in the Chaco Boreal in June 1935. Fifty years of bickering between Bolivia, a landlocked country seeking a river exit to the sea, and Paraguay, a land-hungry country seeking territorial aggrandizement and supposed mineral wealth, had …
Men in a Developing Society
Geographic and Social Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico
Av Jorge Balán, Harley Linwood Browning m. fl.
Häftad, 1973
430 kr
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The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment. It is based mainly on a sample of 1,640 men in Monterrey, …
Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution
Häftad, 1975
448 kr
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Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical …
Revolution at Querétaro
The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917
Häftad, 1974
343 kr
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In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917 came to grips with the basic problem of twentieth-century Mexico. They hammered out pragmatic solutions to establish the legal foundations of the Mexican Revolution, the definitive …
Paraguay and the Triple Alliance
The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878
Av Harris Gaylord Warren, Katherine F. Warren
Häftad, 1978
401 kr
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In the War of the Triple Alliance-the most terrible conflict in South American history-Paraguay was almost annihilated by the armed forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. The chaotic postwar decade began with the Allied occupation of AsunciÓn, which lasted seven years, and was marked by …
Peasant Cooperation and Capitalist Expansion in Central Peru
Av Norman Long, Bryan R. Roberts
Häftad, 1979
389 kr
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This book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists. The area studied-the Mantaro Valley of central Peru-is one of the most densely populated and economically …
Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930
Av Steven Topik
Häftad, 1987
276 kr
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In this first overview of the Brazilian republican state based on extensive primary source material, Steven Topik demonstrates that well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929, the Brazilian state was one of the most interventionist in Latin America. This study counters the previous …
Landowners in Colonial Peru
Häftad, 1984
284 kr
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In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surrounding area. At first, like many other Spaniards in the Americas, they relied primarily on Indian …
Politics of Puerto Rican University Students
Häftad, 1970
276 kr
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In the 1960s, when students everywhere were coming alive politically, and when the Latin American student activist in particular became as archetypal of radicalism as the Latin American dictator was of repression, Puerto Rican students remained strangely silent. With the exception of FUPI, a …
Industry, the State, and Public Policy in Mexico
Av Dale Story
Häftad, 1986
328 kr
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The industrialization process in Mexico began before that of any other nation in Latin America except Argentina, with the most rapid expansion of new industrial firms occurring in the 1930s and 1940s, and import substitution in capital goods evident as early as the late 1930s. Though Mexico’s trade …
Chilean Senate
Internal Distribution of Influence
Häftad, 1971
276 kr
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Weston Agor’s carefully documented analysis of the organization and workings of the Chilean Senate is the first of its kind and fills a long-standing need in the comparative study of the internal structure of legislative bodies. Making eclectic use of role, power, and exchange theories, Agor bases …
Civil Service Reform in Brazil
Principles Versus Practice
Häftad, 1968
276 kr
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In the 1930s, during the authoritarian government of GetÚlio Vargas, the Brazilian civil service reform movement began. Thirty-five years later, the actual administrative practices of the country did not adequately reflect the philosophy underlying this movement, a philosophy drawn from the reform …
Ideal of the Practical
Colombia's Struggle to Form a Technical Elite
Häftad, 2014
401 kr
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The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical. Frank Safford describes attempts by members of Colombia’s …
Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800–1870
Häftad, 1979
328 kr
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Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then came the terrible War of the Triple Alliance, …
Crisis in Costa Rica
The 1948 Revolution
Häftad, 1971
226 kr
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The Costa Rican revolution of 1948 capped an extended period of social tension and political unrest. This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940–1948 that led to a successful armed uprising. A secondary and related theme is the role of JosÉ Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a …
Supermadre
Women in Politics in Latin America
Häftad, 1980
276 kr
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The title of this book, Supermadre, is ironic. It means, not that women have begun to exercise real power in Latin American political life, but that their participation is mostly confined to roles that are extensions of their roles as mothers-health, education, welfare, for example-and then only on …
Steel and Economic Growth in Mexico
Häftad, 1967
226 kr
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Iron ore is widely distributed over the world and has been mined from ancient times, but Mexico, with a good supply of ore, was a relative newcomer to the ranks of iron- and steel-producing nations. This distinctive book offers a history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the …
British-Owned Railways in Argentina
Their Effect on the Growth of Economic Nationalism, 1854-1948
Häftad, 1974
343 kr
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During the nineteenth century, British-owned railways grew under the protection of an Argentine ruling elite that considered railways both instruments and symbols of progress. Under this program of support for foreign enterprise, Argentina had by 1914 built the largest railway network in Latin …
Socialist Party of Argentina, 1890–1930
Häftad, 1977
343 kr
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In the early part of the twentieth century, Argentina's Socialist Party became the largest and most effective socialist organization in Latin America. Richard J. Walter's interpretive study begins with the party's origins in the 1890s, traces its development through 1912, and then offers a …
