One of the Forgotten Things

R S Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 15
• An examination of the long-ignored vicious side to the legend of Brazilian President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, this is the tale uncovered by the first... Lees meer

Cuba and the Future

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 4
• In Cuba and the Future , nine leading Cubanologists analyze the causes, nature, and scope of the Cuban crisis and assess the prospects for the future.... Lees meer

La Última Gaviota

Peter a Szok

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 21
• This study examines the development of Panamanian nationalism, focusing on the period from 1903 to 1941. Utilizing historiography, literature, public ... Lees meer

Colombia's Military and Brazil's Monarchy

Thomas Millington

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies
• This important new study relates the origin of the decline of republican politics in South America to the existence of monarchic rule in Brazil. Milli... Lees meer

Family and Favela

Julio Pino

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 10
• As a history of family life in the squatter settlements of Rio de Janeiro from the 1940s to the 1960s, this study shatters the myth of household disor... Lees meer

Mexico Faces the 21st Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 5
• As Mexico approaches the 21st century, its problems seem to be rapidly overwhelming its prospects. Only a short time ago, with the passage of NAFTA, i... Lees meer

Exiles, Allies, Rebels

David Treece

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 16
• This is the first global study of the single most important intellectual and artistic movement in Brazilian cultural history before Modernism. The Ind... Lees meer

Gunboats, Corruption, and Claims

Brian McBeth

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 20
• The Cipriano Castro administration, which ruled Venezuela from 1899 to 1908, was characterized by a series of internal and external political crises w... Lees meer

Tornel and Santa Anna

William M Fowler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 14
• This is a study of one of the leading politicians of Independent Mexico, Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, whose loyalty to Santa Anna and whose skills as... Lees meer

Brutality and Benevolence

Abel A Alves

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 8
• The 16th-century conquest of Mexico and its effects are best understood as cultural manifestations of animal behavior patterns which humans share with... Lees meer

The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

David Baronov

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 17
• The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to ... Lees meer

State Formation in Central America

Howard H Lentner Ph D

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 2
• Lentner analyzes four basic components in the formation of states: the capacity to govern, security and freedom of action, economic development strate... Lees meer

Ideologues and Ideologies in Latin America

William M Fowler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 9
• The chapters in this volume provide a varied yet consistent analysis of the ways in which ideologies have been used, misused, or abandoned in Latin Am... Lees meer

Beyond the Ideal

David Sheinin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 18
• Envisioned before 1900 as a diplomatic and political model for cooperation among nations in the Americas, Pan Americanism has come to represent a vari... Lees meer

Reinventing Legitimacy

Damarys J Canache, Michael Kulisheck

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 11
• What makes for an ongoing, successful democracy in Latin America? The essays in this collection emphasize the inherent dynamicism needed to sustain de... Lees meer

Authoritarianism in Latin America Since Independence

William M Fowler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies
• This edited collection explores how different dictators and authoritarian parties and factions have frequently succeeded in rising to power in modern ... Lees meer

Toward a Discourse of Consent

Gabriel Villaronga

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 23
• A familiar feature of analyses about mass mobilization in Latin America between the 1930s and 1950s is an emphasis on manipulation and social control ... Lees meer

Troubled Harvest

Joseph Cotter

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 22
• During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to add... Lees meer

Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism

Cary Fraser

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 3
• Until recently, historians have defined the Commonwealth Caribbean territories by their relationship with Britian and have attributed little importanc... Lees meer

Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic

Michael R Hall

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 13
• A study of the powerful impact that sugar had on U.S.-Dominican relations as the primary vehicle of reciprocal manipulation from 1958 to 1962, Sugar a... Lees meer

Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853

William M Fowler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 12
• This book is a study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Mexico from the achievement of independence in 1821 to General... Lees meer

Oil, War, and Anglo-American Relations

Catherine E Jayne

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Latin American Studies | nr. 19
• The Mexican expropriation of British and American properties in March 1938 marked the first time any oil-producing country successfully stood up to fo... Lees meer