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  • - U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945
    af Ricardo Donato Salvatore
    408,95 - 1.174,95 kr.

    Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the history of Latin American studies by tracing its roots back to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how its ties to U.S. business and foreign policy interests helped build an informal empire that supported U.S. economic, technological, and cultural hegemony throughout the hemisphere.

  • af Penny M. Von Eschen
    374,95 - 1.253,95 kr.

  • - U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics
    af Donald Nugent
    477,95 kr.

    "This is the best country-focused collection of essays available on rural politics and peasant movements in Latin America."--Leon Zamosc, University of California at San Diego

  • - Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters
     
    374,95 kr.

    With its archaeological sites, colonial architecture, pristine beaches, and alluring cities, Mexico has long been an attractive destination for travellers. This book takes a broad historical and geographical look at Mexico, covering a range of tourist destinations from Tijuana and Acapulco, and the development of tourism from the 1840s onwards.

  • - General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua
    af Allen Wells
    472,95 - 1.113,95 kr.

    A history of Sosua, a Dominican Republic settlement founded as a refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi Europe, and an analysis of the geopolitics underlying the settlements formation.

  • - Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
    af Lauren Hutchinson Derby
    467,95 kr.

    An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republics capital, Santo Domingo.

  • - Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959
    af Gillian McGillivray
    467,95 kr.

    Discusses the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities in Cuba.

  • - The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico
    af John Dwyer
    444,95 kr.

    In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of US property owners as part of President Cardenas' land redistribution program. This title analyzes this conflict at the local, regional, national, and international levels in a nuanced way that combines social, economic, political, and cultural history.

  • - Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War
     
    265,95 kr.

    Re-examining the Cold War in Latin America, this book examines international contests over political power and cultural representation. It focuses on state houses and diplomatic board rooms manned by Latin American and international governing elites; on the relations among states regionally; and on the dynamics between the superpowers themselves.

  • - Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America
    af Dominic Tierney
    351,95 kr.

    Presents an argument that Spanish Civil War marked President Franklin D Roosevelt's first attempt to challenge fascist aggression in Europe. This book describes the evolution of Roosevelt's thinking about the Spanish Civil War in relation to America's geopolitical interests, as well as fierce controversy in the United States over Spanish policy.

  • - Essays from the North
     
    472,95 kr.

    Offers a mixture of reflexive theoretical essays and interpretative case studies that embrace the challenge of writing a social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and broader arenas of power.

  • - A Watershed Moment?
     
    243,95 kr.

    Within hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, this book asks whether the attacks and their aftermath truly marked a transition in US.

  • - Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
    af Suzana Sawyer
    332,95 kr.

    An ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador

  • - Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
    af Catherine Ceniza Choy
    330,95 kr.

    Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • - The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
    af Kirsten Weld
    356,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    In 2005, human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of Guatemala's National Police. In Paper Cadavers, Kirsten Weld tells the story of the astonishing discovery and rescue of 75 million pages of evidence of state-sponsored crimes, and analyzes the repercussions for both the people and the state of Guatemala.

  • - Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
    af Micol Seigel
    467,95 kr.

    This chronicle of the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the interwar years shows how that exchange affected both countries ideas of race and nation.

  • - Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
    af Daniel Wilkinson
    243,95 kr.

    Author reconstructs the unwritten, taboo history of the Guatemalan civil war, focusing on the peasants who picked coffee, supported guerrilla movements of the 1970s and 1980s, and suffered the most when the military government retaliated with violence.

  • - Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
    af Miguel Tinker Salas
    411,95 kr.

    A history of the oil industrys rise in Venezuela focused especially on the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both American and Venezuelan.

  • - Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930
    af Professor Dwayne Roy Winseck & Robert M. Pike
    471,95 kr.

    Filling in a key chapter in communications history, this title offers an examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. It analyzes the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies.

  • - The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920
    af Eileen Suarez Findlay
    409,95 kr.

    Centring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism.

  • - Transnational and Comparative Histories
     
    465,95 kr.

    A collection of essays by historians of the Canadian-U.S. border region and those focused on the Mexican-U.S. border, examining borderlands events and phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth.

  • - Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960
     
    469,95 kr.

    A collection exploring how American women missionaries spread U.S. cultural imperialism along with Protestant Christianity from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, and how their work was received.

  • - Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
     
    463,95 kr.

    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, this book examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. It reconstructs complex webs of relationships and economic processes, highlighting Latin America's central place in the world economy.

  • - Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule
    af Michel Gobat
    466,95 kr.

    Asks how a virulent anti-Americanism developed in a Nicaraguan society that also seemed to embrace Americanization fervently and explores the historical roots of this paradox

  • - Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
     
    464,95 kr.

    The contributors to this volume reframe the history of the Cold War by focusing on how Latin America used the rivalry between superpowers to create alternative sociomedical pathways.

  • - Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
     
    1.717,95 kr.

    The contributors to this volume reframe the history of the Cold War by focusing on how Latin America used the rivalry between superpowers to create alternative sociomedical pathways.

  • - Mexico in the Global Sixties
    af Eric Zolov
    375,95 - 1.721,95 kr.

    Eric Zolov presents a revisionist account of Mexican domestic politics and international relations during the long 1960s, tracing how Mexico emerged from the shadow of FDR's Good Neighbor policy to become a geopolitical player in its own right during the Cold War.

  • - Power, Production, and History in the Americas
     
    463,95 kr.

    Examines the history of banana-producing areas of Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective, asking why different regions developed distinct patterns of property and labor mobilization. This collection also reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages.

  • - Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
     
    502,95 kr.

    Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America.

  • - New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
    af Aviva Chomsky
    468,95 kr.

    An analysis of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital based on case studies in New England and Colombia.

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