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by John Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This incisive, deeply informed book introduces post-apartheid South Africa to an international audience. South Africa has a history of racism and white supremacy. This crushing historical burden continues to resonate today. Under President Jacob Zuma, South Africa is treading water. Nevertheless,...
North Korea in Transition
Politics, Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Following the death of Kim Jong Il, North Korea has entered a period of profound transformation laden with uncertainty. This authoritative book brings together the world’s leading North Korea experts to analyze both the challenges and prospects the country is facing. Drawing on the contributors’...
Escaping North Korea
Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories...
by Wayne P. Steger, Andrew Dowdle, Randall E. Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The newest installment in a quadrennial series that now spans five presidential elections, this book presents a broad overview of the presidential nomination process and showcases some of the most interesting work now being done on the politics of presidential selection. Written by leading experts,...
Imagining a Great Republic
Political Novels and the Idea of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America’s most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher...
Enemies of the State
The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump’s candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American Bund to...
Based on a True Story
Latin American History at the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Combining history with discussions of dramatic cinema, Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies examines how film has portrayed Latin America from the late fifteenth century to the present. The book opens with an introduction on the visual presentation of the past in the movies,...
by Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. In addition, New Spain's economy and culture were also changing radically....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic...
Riots in the Cities
Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era. The actual political power wielded by the underprivileged city dwellers before the twentieth century has...
I Saw a City Invincible
Urban Portraits of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early conquerors of the New World rapidly established themselves as urban lords. Latin American cities then became synonymous with Spanish power and all...
Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance
Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined,...
James Madison Rules America
The Constitutional Origins of Congressional Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
James Madison Rules America examines congressional party legislative and electoral strategy in the context of our constitutional separation of powers. In a departure from recent books that have described Congress as 'the broken branch' or the 'Second Civil War,' William Connelly argues that partisanship,...
Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy
1919 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
While the historical significance of fascism and anti-fascism is still being hotly debated in Europe and around the world, this anthology offers a new look at the many faces of repression and resistance. Stanislao G. Pugliese brings together a wide range of voices that illuminate more than eighty...