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109 produkter
Tough on Crime
The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America
Inbunden, 2019
805 kr
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Crime and insecurity are top public policy concerns in Latin America. Political leaders offer tough-on-crime solutions that include increased policing and punishments, and decreased civilian oversight. These solutions, while apparently supported by public opinion, sit in opposition to both …
Food and Revolution
Fighting Hunger in Nicaragua, 1960-1993
Inbunden, 2021
782 kr
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Food policy and practices varied widely in Nicaragua during the last decades of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and ‘80s, food scarcity contributed to the demise of the Somoza dictatorship and the Sandinista revolution. Although faced with widespread scarcity and political restrictions, …
Fearful Vassals
Urban Elite Loyalty in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata, 1776-1810
Inbunden, 2020
713 kr
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Following the creation of the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to the Spanish crown for intercession, mediation, and support to maintain their privileged position during the tumultuous years before the May Revolution …
Undoing Multiculturalism
Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador
Inbunden, 2021
782 kr
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President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) led the Ecuadoran Citizens’ Revolution that claimed to challenge the tenets of neoliberalism and the legacies of colonialism. The Correa administration promised to advance Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights and redistribute resources to the most vulnerable. In …
Fields of Revolution
Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964
Av Carmen Soliz
Inbunden, 2021
805 kr
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Winner, 2023 CLAH Susan Socolow-Lyman Johnson Book PrizeFields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform—arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia’s 1952 revolution. Competing understandings of agrarian reform …
Race and Transnationalism in the Americas
Av Benjamin Bryce, David M. K. Sheinin
Inbunden, 2021
899 kr
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National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Americas examines the ways that race and its categorization have functioned as organizing frameworks for cultural, political, and social inclusion—and …
Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile
Inbunden, 2021
805 kr
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In Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile, Ángela Vergara narrates the story of how industrial and mine workers, peasants and day laborers, as well as blue-collar and white-collar employees earned a living through periods of economic, political, and social instability in twentieth-century …
Amnesty in Brazil
Recompense after Repression, 1895-2010
Inbunden, 2021
876 kr
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In 1895, forty-seven rebel military officers contested the terms of a law that granted them amnesty but blocked their immediate return to the armed forces. During the century that followed, numerous other Brazilians who similarly faced repercussions for political opposition or outright rebellion …
Democracy Against Parties
The Divergent Fates of Latin America’s New Left Contenders
Inbunden, 2021
851 kr
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Around the world, established parties are weakening, and new parties are failing to take root. In many cases, outsiders have risen and filled the void, posing a threat to democracy. Why do most new parties fail? Under what conditions do they survive and become long-term electoral fixtures? Brandon …
Against Racism
Organizing for Social Change in Latin America
Av Monica Moreno Figueroa, Peter Wade
Inbunden, 2022
851 kr
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Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have hampered the acknowledgment of racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist reforms have increased recognition of Black and Indigenous identities and cultures. Multiculturalism may focus …
Paradox of Violence in Venezuela
Revolution, Crime, and Policing During Chavismo
Av David Smilde, Verónica Zubillaga m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
851 kr
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Crime and violence soared in twenty-first-century Venezuela even as poverty and inequality decreased, contradicting the conventional wisdom that these are the underlying causes of violence. The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela explains the rise of violence under both Hugo Chávez and Nicolás …
Street Matters
A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil
Av Fernando Luiz Lara, Ana Paula Koury
Inbunden, 2022
734 kr
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Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequality. This inequality is physically manifested across Brazil, …
Encountering US Empire in Socialist Venezuela
The Legacy of Race, Neo-Colonialism, and Democracy Promotion
Av Timothy Gill
Inbunden, 2022
851 kr
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Since the end of World War II, the United States has come to dominate the world economically and politically, leading many to describe the United States as an empire. Scholars have analyzed how the US government has worked through international financial institutions, its Central Intelligence …
Inka Bird Idiom
Amazonian Feathers in the Andes
Inbunden, 2023
920 kr
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From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean …
Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961–1981
1961-1981
Inbunden, 2023
1057 kr
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Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing approach reflected in the familiar slogan “patria o muerte” (fatherland or death) has recently been challenged in protests that have adopted the theme …
Now We Are in Power
The Politics of Passive Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia
Inbunden, 2023
947 kr
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During the first decade of the century, Evo Morales and other leftists took control of governments across Latin America. In the case of Bolivia, Morales was that country’s first Indigenous president and was elected following five years of popular insurrection after decades of neoliberal governance. …
Conjuring the State
Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1945
Av A. Kim Clark
Inbunden, 2023
805 kr
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Winner, 2024 Best Book Prize, LASA Ecuadorian Studies SectionThe Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as a point of departure to explore questions of social history and public health by tracing how …
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes
Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison
Av John Crabtree, Jonas Wolff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
876 kr
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This coauthored monograph examines how business groups have interacted with state authorities in the three central Andean countries from the mid-twentieth century through the early twenty-first. This time span covers three distinct economic regimes: the period of state-led import substitutive …
Weak and the Powerful
Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World
Inbunden, 2024
876 kr
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Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus through the canal. For nearly a century, the United States occupied and controlled the Panama Canal Zone and its shipping operations. In 1999, control was …
Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America
Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary Countries
Av Tomáš Došek
Inbunden, 2024
876 kr
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Despite democratization at the national level, local political bosses still govern many municipalities in Latin America. Caudillos and clans often use informal political practices—ranging from clientelism and patronage to harassment of political opposition—to control local political dynamics. These …
Staging Buenos Aires
Theater, Society, and Politics in Argentina, 1860-1920
Inbunden, 2024
876 kr
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Staging Buenos Aires centers theater as a source of historical inquiry to understand how nonelites experienced and shaped a city undergoing dramatic transformations. Commercial theater constituted the core of the city’s public sphere, one in which middle-class playwrights and audiences assumed the …
Narco-Democratization
Organized Crime and Political Transition in Bolivia
Inbunden, 2026
1678 kr
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The development of the global illicit drug trade has posed significant challenges to democracy throughout Latin America. Scenes of violence and disorder linked to organized crime and the “war on drugs” are imprinted in the popular consciousness. The case of Bolivia, though, shows that the dominant …
Science Under Adversity
Latin American Medical Researchers of the Early Twentieth Century
Av Marcos Cueto
Inbunden, 2026
1728 kr
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Science under Adversity argues that the Global South served as a dynamic arena of scientific innovation, circulation, and international collaboration. In this richly detailed history of the development of Latin American physiology in the early- to mid-twentieth century, Marcos Cueto shows that …
Rosario Murillo and the Fate of Nicaragua
Inbunden, 2026
1781 kr
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Murillo has been first lady of Nicaragua twice (1985–1990 and 2007–2017), vice president (2017–2025), and copresident (since February 2025). She also is a published poet who has been involved in Sandinista politics since the late 1960s. With her husband, Daniel Ortega, she was part of the movement …
Empires’ Echo
Media and Communication Technologies in Puerto Rico
Inbunden, 2027
1728 kr
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Empires’ Echo: Media and Communication Technologies in Puerto Rico tells the story of Puerto Rico through the systems that have connected, controlled, and shaped it for centuries. From carved wooden saints and oral traditions to newspapers, radio, television, and digital platforms, the book traces …
Hotel Guaraní
The Brazilianization of the Paraguayan Middle Class during the Stroessner Dictatorship
Inbunden, 2027
1728 kr
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Stroessner ruled Paraguay as a dictator from 1954 until 1989. Chesterton argues that in the wake of new infrastructural links, Paraguay embraced a Brazilian model of modernity and consumption. Argentina borders Paraguay to the west and south, and was long Paraguay’s most important partner. But in …
Overthrow of Allende and the Politics of Chile, 1964-1976
Av Paul Sigmund
Häftad, 1980
767 kr
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Paul Sigmund, who has studied Chile for more than a decade, and lived and taught there, offers an exhaustive, balanced analysis of the overthrow of Salvador Allende, and why it occurred. Sigmund examines the Allende government, the Frei government that preceeded it, the coup that ended it, and the …
Politics of Mexican Oil
Häftad, 1981
767 kr
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The Mexican oil boom of the 1970s brought great hope and prosperity with it. George Grayson shows the influence of oil and the oil sector both within Mexican society and in its relations with other nations. He traces the development of the oil industry from its beginnings in 1901 up until the …
Social Documentary in Latin America
Häftad, 1990
783 kr
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Twenty essays by major filmmakers and critics provide the first survey of the evolution of documentary film in Latin America. While acknowledging the political and historical weight of the documentary, the contributors are also concerned with the aesthetic dimensions of the medium and how Latin …
Cuba under the Platt Amendment, 1902–1934
Häftad, 1991
830 kr
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• Choice 1987 Outstanding Academic Book This book examines the early years of the Cuban Republic, launched in 1902 after the war with Spain. Although no longer a colony, the country was still hobbled by continuing dependence on and exploitation from a foreign power. P\u00e9rez shows how U.S. armed …
