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Adopts a variety of disciplinary, thematic and country-based approaches to the complex and contested issues around the character of the nation-state in Latin America. The text seeks to develop debate on the topic through: case studies; historiographical review; and early notions of development.

Examines the Falklands/Malvinas conflict and its consequences, but from an oblique perspective that brings together English, Spanish and Argentine specialists and researchers. The book is novel in that different social scientists analyse the conflict from the perspective of their own disciplines.

The five papers presented in this volume discuss various aspects of the politics of Latin America during the nineteenth century. Although the scope of the essays is wide including topics such as civil wars, political parties and the use of travel narratives for partisan purposes the overriding concern is with nationalism and the role of the state."

This wide-ranging collection of essays engages fully the general debates over the politics of gender and appraises women's movements in widely varying societies. Most chapters deal directly with Latin American issues and experiences. The remaining chapters extend beyond the region to provide comparative analysis and an international context.

This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen; agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose; social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell; the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon; and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante.In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies. For example, they explain how they chose the communities they worked in; the personal relations they established there during fieldwork; the kind of links they have maintained; and how these communities have changed over time. They also review their original methodological and theoretical approaches and findings, reassessing their validity and explaining how their views have evolved or changed since they originally conducted their fieldwork and published their studies.This book also offers a review of the evolution and role of community ethnographies in the context of Andean anthropology. These ethnographies had a central role between the 1940s and 1980s, when they could be roughly divided – following Olivia Harris - between ‘long-termist’ and ‘short-termist’ approaches, depending on predominant focuses on historical continuities or social change respectively. However, by the 1990s these works came to be widely considered as too limited and subjective in the context of wider academic changes, such as the emergence of postmodern trends, and reflective and literary turns in anthropology. Overall, the book aims to reflect on this evolution of community ethnographies in the Andes, and on their contribution to the study of Andean culture.

Earl Lovelace was one of the greatest Trinidadian writers. Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and an indefatigable critic of the inequalities bequeathed by the post-Independence state. This book assesses Lovelace's fiction and also his role in Caribbean letters.

In January 1966, Colonel Francisco Caamano Deno, president of the Dominican Republic during the "Constitutionalist" uprising of 1965 and the subsequent US invasion, was exiled to London. This book presents documents from official archives on Caamano's conversations with British and American diplomats.

This volume examines the array of challenges facing the Obama administration and the president himself. Topics range from how best to manage a ruptured economy to controlling the budget, the green agenda, foreign policy, and the recalibration of U.S. relations with Britain. It also includes sections on presidential leadership, elections, healthcare, and food poverty. The common theme throughout is the issue of governing in a fractured, unruly political environment, and the accompanying difficulties. Contributing scholars, based at academic institutions in the United States and the UK, offer a range of informed perspectives throughout this engaging work. Packed with detail yet highly accessible, this volume will appeal to those interested in American politics, history, and the political process.

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state-building in nineteenth century Mexico.

Football has always provided its players and fans with identity and belonging, whether to a nation or to a particular social group. It has been both a vehicle for the politically ambitious and an arena in which citizens can make sense of national failings and contest existing power structures. This volume explores many of these themes.

Senator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in 1998 in London on the orders of a Spanish judge seeking his extradition for human rights crimes. Here, political scientists and lawyers analyse the political and historical context of the case and its progress through the courts in the UK and Chile.

The nineteenth century saw a lengthy and unusually intense conflict between religion and national politics over public space. Using case-studies of nations in both Europe and Latin America, the contirbutors to this unusual comparative volume explore the nature, background and consequences of this conflict from a revisionist and empirical viewpoint.

Examines the social, cultural, economic, and political effects of modern demographic change in the United States. This book analyzes a range of issues pertaining to the diversity of American society.

Analyzes the evolution of politics, ideas, and culture in Buenos Aires from 1820-1827, focusing on Rivadavia's period as minister of government from 1821-24. This book also reveals the causes of his political downfall in 1827, after he became the president of the Argentine Republic.