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159 produkter
History and Language in the Andes
Av P. Heggarty, A. Pearce
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's …
Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context
Av J. Gideon
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that continues to shape health …
Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans
European Perspectives and Beyond
Av C. McIlwaine
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This book aims to address this neglect in the European context with concentration on the UK case. Conceptually, it explores the meanings of diaspora and whether this is an appropriate concept to refer to Latin American migration to Europe in particular
Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas
Av Z. Arashiro
Inbunden, 2011
507 kr
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The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and …
Nitrate King
A Biography of “Colonel” John Thomas North
Av W. Edmundson
Inbunden, 2011
586 kr
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William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the first biography of a …
Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts
Av M. Carocci, S. Pratt
Inbunden, 2011
522 kr
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Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived …
Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880
Av I. Jaksic
Häftad, 2007
522 kr
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This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and …
New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance
Av H. Haarstad
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical insight into states' and communities' relations to natural resource sectors, and show how resource dependencies continue to shape their political spaces.
Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Av Jose Antonio Sanchez Roman, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the collapse of the progressive …
Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela
Av M. Brown
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial rule.
Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
Av N. Naro, R. Sansi-Roca m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1130 kr
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This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context offers a unique …
Republican Party and Immigration Politics
From Proposition 187 to George W. Bush
Av A. Wroe
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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This book examines the 1990s backlash against illegal immigrants. Wroe explains why many Americans turned against immigration, looking at the origins of California's Proposition 187 and its wider political implications.
Ronald Reagan and the 1980s
Perceptions, Policies, Legacies
Inbunden, 2008
1467 kr
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By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American president - Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to his political and …
Reinventing Modernity in Latin America
Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900-1930
Av N. Miller
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.
Governance after Neoliberalism in Latin America
Av J. Grugel
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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Two decades of neoliberalism in Latin America have left legacies of uneven growth, inequity and lackluster democracy. This book offers an original and grounded discussion of what governance after neoliberalism means in Latin America and examines how states are pursuing more independent development …
Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production, distribution and marketing.
Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration
Responding to Globalization in the Americas
Av D. Sánchez-Ancochea, K. Shadlen
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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Benefiting from a truly Pan-American perspective, these essays evaluate the economics and politics of the new patterns of North-South integration in the particular context of the Americas, questioning if regional and bilateral trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA or the FTAA are appropriate …
Wellbeing and Development in Peru
Local and Universal Views Confronted
Av J. Copestake
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict.
Federal Nation
Perspectives on American Federalism
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant shifts in US federalism in relation to social and socioeconomic issues.
Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940–1967
Av S. High
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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This book examines the social, economic and political aftermath of the famous Anglo-American 'destroyers-for-bases' deal of 2nd September 1940 that saw fifty obsolete U.S. destroyers exchanged for 'base colonies' in Trinidad, Bermuda, Newfoundland and the Bahamas.
Origins of Mercosur
Democracy and Regionalization in South America
Av G. Gardini
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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The processes of democratization and regionalization in South America ran parallel to one another between 1985 and 1991. However, the nature of this relationship is by no means clear. This book explores the diplomatic history of the formation of Mercosur and analyzes the precise place of democracy …
Judicialization of Politics in Latin America
Av Rachel Sieder, L. Schjolden m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
464 kr
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During the last two decades the judiciary has come to play an increasingly important political role in Latin America. Constitutional courts and supreme courts are more active in counterbalancing executive and legislative power than ever before. At the same time, the lack of effective citizenship …
Latin America: A New Interpretation
Av L. Whitehead
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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This book of collected essays by Laurence Whitehead, an eminent scholar of Latin America, explores the structures and influences that bind together the region, shedding light on this vast and rapidly changing culture zone.
Post-Colonial Trinidad
An Ethnographic Journal
Av C. Clarke
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Clarke and Clarke have created a journal that provides an ethnographic record of the East Indians and Creoles of San Fernando - and the entire sugar belt south of the town known as Naparima. They record socio-political relations during the second year of Trinidad s independence (1964), and provide …
Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America
Av Walter Little, Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Häftad, 1996
344 kr
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This book looks at political corruption in Latin American and Europe from both an historical and a contemporary angle. The approach is therefore comparative and interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars from history, political science, anthropology, sociology and economics. In addition to …
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry
Av M. MacLaird
Inbunden, 2013
1165 kr
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Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a …
Mexico’s Struggle for Public Security
Organized Crime and State Responses
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results. This book considers the issue from a variety of viewpoints. The essential argument is that the organized crime is best combated by institutional reforms directed at strengthening the rule of law …
Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru
An Andean Town, 1870s-1970s
Av F. Wilson
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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Exploring how restrictions on citizenship helped create conditions for political violence in Peru, this book recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean town were persistently overruled, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the state and political …
Making Brazil Work
Checking the President in a Multiparty System
Av M. Melo, C. Pereira
Inbunden, 2013
1425 kr
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This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president …
Politics and Power in Haiti
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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Examining the political legacies of the Duvalier period and after, and revisiting the work of the late David Nicholls, Politics and Power in Haiti provides some of the keys to understanding the turbulent world of Haitian politics and the persistent challenges at home and from abroad which have …
