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South America and the First World War : The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile
Bill Albert
Paperback - $107.95
The collapse of this economy in August 1914 and its subsequent restructuring, therefore, created extremely testing conditions for peripheral countries. These conditions and the way in which they were dealt with help to highlight the strengths and wea ...
Cultures of Politics/Politics of Culutres : Revisioning Latin American Social Movements
Sonia E. Alvarez
Paperback - $107.95
The notion of the cultural politics of social movements provides a lens for analyzing emergent discourses and practices grounded in society and culture, the state and political institutions, and the extent to which these may unsettle, or be reinscrib ...
The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas
Samuel Amaral
Paperback - $103.95
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires underwent rapid economic growth. Previous studies have focused on the economy as a whole, or on a particular segment of the population; and most have disregarded how resources were intentio ...
The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830
Kenneth J. Andrien
Paperback - $96.95
Spanish colonialism exacted a high price from its subjects, promoting economic dependency at the expense of a more vital, diversified economy based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The result was a legacy of underdevelopment, domestic social ine ...
Nuestros Aqos Diez. La Asociacion Pro-Indigena, El Levantamiento de Rumi Maqui y El Incaismo Modernista
Carlos Eduardo Arroyo Reyes
Paperback - $55.95
Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico
P. J. Bakewell
Paperback - $92.95
An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. In the first half of the book, the author describes the discove ...
Dispatches from Latin America : On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism
Teo Ballve
Paperback - $30.95
Dispatches charts Latin America's aspirations and challenges.
From the laboratory of neoliberalism-popularly known as "globalization" -Latin America has transformed itself into a launching pad for resistance. As globalization began to spread ...
Latin American Popular Culture : An Introduction
William H. Beezley
Paperback - $63.95
Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction is a collection of articles that explores a wide range of compelling cultural subjects in the region, including carnival, romance, funerals, medicine, monuments and dance, among others. The introduction ...