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The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays written by Ilan Stavans and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.

The Cambridge History of Latin America

Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Latin America written by Leslie Bethell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enth.: Bd. 1-2: Colonial Latin America ; Bd. 3: From Independence to c. 1870 ; Bd. 4-5: c. 1870 to 1930 ; Bd. 6-10: Latin America since 1930 ; Bd. 11: Bibliographical essays.

Blood and Debt

Author : Miguel Angel Centeno
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074191
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Debt written by Miguel Angel Centeno and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in regions as varied as the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa. The book's illuminating review of the relatively peaceful history of Latin America from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries reveals the lack of two critical prerequisites needed for war: a political and military culture oriented toward international violence, and the state institutional capacity to carry it out. Using innovative new data such as tax receipts, naming of streets and public monuments, and conscription records, the author carefully examines how war affected the fiscal development of the state, the creation of national identity, and claims to citizenship. Rather than building nation-states and fostering democratic citizenship, he shows, war in Latin America destroyed institutions, confirmed internal divisions, and killed many without purpose or glory.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Author : Dolores Moyano Martin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292752313
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by Dolores Moyano Martin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell was assistant editor from 1994 to 1998. The subject categories for Volume 56 are as follows: ∑ Electronic Resources for the Humanities ∑ Art ∑ History (including ethnohistory) ∑ Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) ∑ Philosophy: Latin American Thought ∑ Music

Mapping Latin America

Author : Jordana Dym
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226921816
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Latin America written by Jordana Dym and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.Individual chapters take on maps of every size and scale and from a wide variety of mapmakers—from the hand-drawn maps of Native Americans, to those by famed explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, to those produced in today’s newspapers and magazines for the general public. The maps collected here, and the interpretations that accompany them, provide an excellent source to help readers better understand how Latin American countries, regions, provinces, and municipalities came to be defined, measured, organized, occupied, settled, disputed, and understood—that is, how they came to have specific meanings to specific people at specific moments in time. The first book to deal with the broad sweep of mapping activities across Latin America, this lavishly illustrated volume will be required reading for students and scholars of geography and Latin American history, and anyone interested in understanding the significance of maps in human cultures and societies.

Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America

Author : Erick D. Langer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742575063
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America written by Erick D. Langer and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The efforts of Indians in Latin America have gained momentum and garnered increasing attention in the last decade as they claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process. This issue is of rising importance as ecological concerns and autochtonous movements gain a foothold in Latin America, transforming the political landscape into one in which multiethnic democracies hold sway. In some cases, these movements have led to violent outbursts that severely affected some nations, such as the 1992 and 1994 Indian uprisings in Ecuador. In most cases, however, grassroots efforts have realized success without bloodshed. An Aymara Indian, head of an indigenous-rights political party, became Vice President of Bolivia. Brazilian lands are being set aside for indigenous groups not as traditional reservations where the government attempts to 'civilize' the hunters and gatherers, but where the government serves only to keep loggers, gold miners, and other interlopers out of tribal lands. Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America is a collection of essays compiled by Professor Erick D. Langer that brings together-for the first time-contributions on indigenous movements throughout Latin America from all regions. Focusing on the 1990s, Professor Langer illustrates the range and increasing significance of the Indian movements in Latin America. The volume addresses the ways in which Indians have confronted the political, social, and economic problems they face today, and shows the diversity of the movements, both in lowlands and in highlands, tribal peoples, and peasants. The book presents an analytical overview of these movements, as well as a vision of how and why they have become so important in the late twentieth century. Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America is important for those interested in Latin American studies, including Latin American civilization, Latin American anthropology, contemporary issues in Latin America, and ethnic studies.

Presidents and Democracy in Latin America

Author : Manuel Alcántara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351622706
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Presidents and Democracy in Latin America written by Manuel Alcántara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America. Unlike other texts, Presidents and Democracy in Latin America integrates both political analysis and major theoretical perspectives with extensive country-specific material. Part One examines the developments in recent years in Latin American presidentialism and identifies different characteristics of society and politics which have influenced Latin American governments. The personalization of political life and of presidential government help to illustrate the character of Latin American politics, specifically on the type of political career of those who occupied the presidential office, the leadership style of these presidents and the type of government which they led. Part Two studies two presidents in each of six countries in the region which reflect the broad trends in the political and electoral life: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Each case study first provides the biographical background of the president; it outlines the political career of the president both inside and outside of a party, including at the local level; the popularity of the president at the time of the presidential election is given, as well as the mode of selection of the candidates (selection by party leaders only, by party members or by a primary). The relation of the president with the government or ministers, especially if there is a coalition government, is detailed. This textbook will be essential reading for all students of Latin American Politics and is highly recommended for those studying executive politics, political leadership, and the state of democratic governance in Latin America.

The South America Handbook

Author : Patrick Heenan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135973210
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The South America Handbook written by Patrick Heenan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century. The series allows the non-specialist student to explore a wide range of complex factors-social and political as well as economic-that affect the growth of developing regions in Asia, Europe, and South America. Each Handbook provides an overview chapter discussing the region's economic conditions within an historical and political context, as well as 20 or more chapter-length essays written by recognized experts, which analyze the key issues affecting a region's economy: its population, natural resources, foreign trade, labor problems, and economic inequalities, and other vital factors. In addition, the volumes offer useful support materials, including a series of appendices that include a detailed chronology of events in the region, a glossary of terms, biographical entries on key personalities, an annotated bibliography of further reading, and a comprehensive analytical index.

Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America

Author : Elizabeth P. Benson
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884020943
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America written by Elizabeth P. Benson and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1979 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Left Behind

Author : Sebastian Edwards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226184803
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Left Behind written by Sebastian Edwards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources—and a history of productivity and wealth—in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed nations, surpassed even by other developing economies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. In Left Behind, Sebastian Edwards explains why the nations of Latin America have failed to share in the fruits of globalization and forcefully highlights the dangers of the recent turn to economic populism in the region. He begins by detailing the many ways Latin American governments have stifled economic development over the years through excessive regulation, currency manipulation, and thoroughgoing corruption. He then turns to the neoliberal reforms of the early 1990s, which called for the elimination of deficits, lowering of trade barriers, and privatization of inefficient public enterprises—and which, Edwards argues, held the promise of freeing Latin America from the burdens of the past. Flawed implementation, however, meant the promised gains of globalization were never felt by the mass of citizens, and growing frustration with stalled progress has led to a resurgence of populism throughout the region, exemplified by the economic policies of Venezuela’sHugo Chávez. But such measures, Edwards warns, are a recipe for disaster; instead, he argues, the way forward for Latin America lies in further market reforms, more honestly pursued and fairly implemented. As an example of the promise of that approach, Edwards points to Latin America's giant, Brazil, which under the successful administration of President Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula) has finally begun to show signs of reaching its true economic potential. As the global financial crisis has reminded us, the risks posed by failing economies extend far beyond their national borders. Putting Latin America back on a path toward sustained growth is crucial not just for the region but for the world, and Left Behind offers a clear, concise blueprint for the way forward.

Postmodernity in Latin America

Author : Santiago Colás
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382660
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernity in Latin America written by Santiago Colás and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been both a limited understanding of the literature and an impoverished notion of postmodernity. Santiago Colás challenges both of these approaches and corrects their consequent distortions by locating Argentine postmodernity in the cultural dynamics of resistance as it operates within and against local expressions of late capitalism. Focusing on literature, Colás uses Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch to characterize modernity for Latin America as a whole, Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman to identify the transition to a more localized postmodernity, and Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration to exemplify the cultural coordinates of postmodernity in Argentina. Informed by the cycle of political transformation beginning with the Cuban Revolution, including its effects on Peronism, to the period of dictatorship, and finally to redemocratization, Colás’s examination of this literary progression leads to the reconstruction of three significant moments in the history of Argentina. His analysis provokes both a revised understanding of that history and the recognition that multiple meanings of postmodernity must be understood in ways that incorporate the complexity of regional differences. Offering a new voice in the debate over postmodernity, one that challenges that debate’s leading thinkers, Postmodernity in Latin America will be of particular interest to students of Latin American literature and to scholars in all disciplines concerned with theories of the postmodern.

South American Handbook, 1994

Author : Ben Box
Publisher : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780844299792
Total Pages : 1456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book South American Handbook, 1994 written by Ben Box and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific

Author : Simon Broughton
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858286365
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific written by Simon Broughton and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Hoover's Handbook of American Business 1995

Author : Gary Hoover
Publisher : Hoover's
ISBN 13 : 9781878753656
Total Pages : 1288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Hoover's Handbook of American Business 1995 written by Gary Hoover and published by Hoover's. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate desk reference for executives, consumers, investors, job seekers & salespeople, this book is packed with information on America's top companies. Fully revised annually, it features in- depth profiles of 500 public & private companies, from Abbott to Zenith, containing operations overviews, strategies, histories, up to 10 years of key financial data, products, key competitors, executives' names, headquarters addresses, & phone & fax numbers. Also included are extensive business lists & complete indexes by industry; by headquarters location; & of people, companies, & brand names. BUSINESS WEEK says, "You simply can't find more information on Corporate America in any other single source." Also look for HOOVER'S HANDBOOK OF EMERGING COMPANIES 1995, Nov. 1994. $37.95 (1- 878753-51-7); pap. $27.95 (1-878753-75-4) & HOOVER'S HANDBOOK OF WORLD BUSINESS, March 1995. $37.95 (1-878753-44-4); pap. $27.95 (1- 878753-43-6). Hardcover available from Reference Press, 6448 Hwy. 290 E., Suite E-104, Austin, TX 78723; 800-486-8666; fax 512-454- 9401. Trade paper available from Warner Books/Little, Brown, 200 West St., Waltham, MA 02254; 800-759-0190; fax 617-890-0875.

Ancient South America

Author : Karen Olsen Bruhns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521277617
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book Ancient South America written by Karen Olsen Bruhns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South America is still the least known continent in the world. Isolated for all of prehistory and much of its history, it is quite alien to the average European, Asian, or North American. Yet this continent witnessed the development of a series of cultures and of advanced civilizations which rival anything in Eurasia or Africa. Independently South American peoples invented agriculture and domesticated animals, pottery, elaborate architecture, and the arts of working metals. Tribes, chiefdoms, and immense conquest states rose, flourished, and disappeared leaving only their ruined monuments and broken artifacts as testimonials to past greatness. Ancient South America encompasses ten millennia of cultural development and diversity. Accessibly written and abundantly illustrated, this book will be enjoyed by students of archaeology, anthropology, and art history.

Latin American Spanish

Author : John M. Lipski
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Spanish written by John M. Lipski and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the book presents a linguistic analysis of Latin American Spanish and places it in a broad historical context. The author examines the phonology and morphology of the language, its syntactic and lexical variation and social differentiation, its past and present contacts with other languages and also explores the sociohistorical factors which have shaped the various Latin American Spanish dialects. He provides the reader with a detailed account of the influence of African and Native American languages and populations, and assesses the contribution made by Peninsular Spanish. This includes the geographical and social origins of the original Spanish settlers, the effects of dialect levelling and nautical language and subsequent migratory patterns. There are also in-depth evaluations of dialect classification schemes.

Latin America Economic Integration Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments

Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1433052431
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Latin America Economic Integration Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) Handbook