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Author : Arthur Brown Ruhl
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Central Americans written by Arthur Brown Ruhl and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Ruhl
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Central Americans written by Arthur Ruhl and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Augustine Sedgewick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110748
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Coffeeland written by Augustine Sedgewick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world’s great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history—a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present. Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.
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Total Pages : 1494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason M. Colby
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080146272X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Business of Empire written by Jason M. Colby and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930s, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire.
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Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Open Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
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Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Mercury written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
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Total Pages : 1364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jürgen Buchenau
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826323132
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Mexico Otherwise written by Jürgen Buchenau and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.
Author : James W. Martin
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826359434
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Banana Cowboys written by James W. Martin and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century—the white “banana cowboy” pushing the edges of a tropical frontier—was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.
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Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel E. Bender
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479871257
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Making the Empire Work written by Daniel E. Bender and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Author : Victoria González-Rivera
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271068027
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Before the Revolution written by Victoria González-Rivera and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.
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Total Pages : 1018 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381249
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book To Rise in Darkness written by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Rise in Darkness offers a new perspective on a defining moment in modern Central American history. In January 1932 thousands of indigenous and ladino (non-Indian) rural laborers, provoked by electoral fraud and the repression of strikes, rose up and took control of several municipalities in central and western El Salvador. Within days the military and civilian militias retook the towns and executed thousands of people, most of whom were indigenous. This event, known as la Matanza (the massacre), has received relatively little scholarly attention. In To Rise in Darkness, Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago investigate memories of the massacre and its long-term cultural and political consequences. Gould conducted more than two hundred interviews with survivors of la Matanza and their descendants. He and Lauria-Santiago combine individual accounts with documentary sources from archives in El Salvador, Guatemala, Washington, London, and Moscow. They describe the political, economic, and cultural landscape of El Salvador during the 1920s and early 1930s, and offer a detailed narrative of the uprising and massacre. The authors challenge the prevailing idea that the Communist organizers of the uprising and the rural Indians who participated in it were two distinct groups. Gould and Lauria-Santiago demonstrate that many Communist militants were themselves rural Indians, some of whom had been union activists on the coffee plantations for several years prior to the rebellion. Moreover, by meticulously documenting local variations in class relations, ethnic identity, and political commitment, the authors show that those groups considered “Indian” in western El Salvador were far from homogeneous. The united revolutionary movement of January 1932 emerged out of significant cultural difference and conflict.
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Total Pages : 942 pages
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Download or read book The Nation and Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Nation and Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
