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  • - Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960
     
    1.112,95 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.

  • af Penny M. Von Eschen
    364,95 - 1.180,95 kr.

  • - Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America
    af Dominic Tierney
    242,95 - 952,95 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
     
    272,95 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?
     
    242,95 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
    323,95 - 997,95 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
    322,95 - 962,95 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
    347,95 - 1.111,95 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
    272,95 - 1.067,95 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.

  • - Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
     
    1.072,95 kr.

    Examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years

  • - U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945
    af Ricardo Donato Salvatore
    346,95 - 1.147,95 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.

  • - Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
    af Miguel Tinker Salas
    350,95 - 997,95 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
    287,95 - 1.112,95 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.

  • - Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint
    af Paul J. Vanderwood
    272,95 - 997,95 kr.

    Investigates the popular canonization of a saint in Tijuana, asking what triggered the devotion and considering local, national, international, geographical, environmental, cultural, and psychological aspects of the event.

  • - The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920
    af Eileen Suarez Findlay
    338,95 - 997,95 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
     
    1.067,95 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.

  • - Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
    af Daniel Wilkinson
    242,95 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.

  • - Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort
    af Paul J. Vanderwood
    272,95 - 1.067,95 kr.

    The story of the rise and fall of the gambling industry in Tijuana during the Jazz Age opens into a history of the development of that area and Southern California.

  • - Transnational and Comparative Histories
     
    272,95 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
     
    287,95 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
     
    272,95 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
    272,95 - 1.067,95 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
     
    361,95 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
     
    1.221,95 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
    365,95 - 1.224,95 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
     
    350,95 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.

  • af Vicente L. Rafael
    252,95 kr.

    Presents a cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines. This title examines the period from the onset of US colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. It reveals how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the Philippines.

  • - Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
     
    438,95 kr.

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

  • - Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
    af Heather Levi
    252,95 - 957,95 kr.

    An insider's account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican version of professional wrestling. It explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. It shows how a sport imported from the US in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican culture.

  • - New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
    af Aviva Chomsky
    364,95 - 1.067,95 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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