Latin America category: 3090 books
by Carlos de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or...
The Tango War
The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" • A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September • One of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2018"
"Masterful...not only filled with engrossing history but includes a cast of characters who could be the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political...
Blood and Debt
War and the Nation-State in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today...
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
The Case for Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
As important as state-to-state and multi-state cooperation have long proven to be, many countries in the Global South have yet to fully explore its potentials. Despite their shared history of slavery, colonialism, and underdevelopment, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean currently show a lack...
When States Kill
Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America.
Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America
Written by the top international...
Missionary Capitalist
Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The first work to draw on Nelson A. Rockefeller's newly available personal papers as well as research in Latin American archives, Missionary Capitalist details Rockefeller's efforts to promote economic development in Latin America, particularly Venezuela, from the late 1930s through the 1950s.
Rockefeller's...
In from the Cold
Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing...
Corazón: from the Heart of Latin America
A Documentary Journey Through Mexico, Central America, and the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
W.R. Stanton spent the early 1970s hitchiking, taking buses, and riding atop trains and trucks through Mexico, Central America, and the Andes, seeking to experience more of the native culture he had fallen in love with during an earlier trip to Mexico. Almost twenty years later, as a professional...
Why Latin American Nations Fail
Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment in the region. With new ideas have come new strategies...
by Vincent Peloso
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Spanish and Portuguese empires that existed in the Americas for over three hundred years resulted in the creation of a New World population in which a complex array of racial and ethnic distinctions were embedded in the discourse of power. During the colonial era, racial and ethnic identities...
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...