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  • Death in the Ring

    Violent Ends in Combat Sports

    by C. Nathan Hatton, David M. K. Sheinin, Professor Cesar R. Torres ...
    This groundbreaking collection explores how the threat and reality of death shape the culture, business, and ethics of the ring.This interdisciplinary volume critically examines the persistent presence of death in combat sports-boxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling-and its broader cultural, ethical, and sociopolitical implications. Drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Latin America During World War II

    by Andrew Lefebvre, Daniel M. Masterson, Graeme Mount, Jorge Ortiz Sotelo, Orlando J. Perez, Eric Paul Roorda, David Sheinin, Joseph Smith, Monica A. Rankin, George M. Lauderbaugh ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime. Each country responded to World War II according to its own national interests, which often conflicted with those of the Allies, including the United States. The contributors systematically consider how each country dealt with commonly shared ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Argentina and the United States

    An Alliance Contained

    by David M. K. Sheinin ...
    Series series
    In the first English-language survey of Argentine-U.S. relations to appear in more than a decade, David M. K. Sheinin challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. Sheinin draws on both Spanish- and English-language sources in the United States, Argentina, Canada, and Great Britain to provide a broad perspective on the two ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Statues and Legacies of Combat Athletes in the Americas

    by Stephen D. Allen, Kyle Barrowman, Paul MacDougall, Aaron D. Horton, Carrie Teresa ...
    Series series Sport, Identity, and Culture
    The violence of combat sports left a mark on how fans and communities remembered athletes. As individual endeavors, combat sports have often produced more detailed, emotionally poignant, and deeply personal stories of triumph than those associated with team sports. Commemorative statues to combat athletes are therefore unique as historical markers and sites of memory. These statues tell remarkable ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Making Citizens in Argentina

    Edited by Benjamin Bryce, David M. K. Sheinin ...
    Series Book 353 - Pitt Latin American Series
    Making Citizens in Argentina charts the evolving meanings of citizenship in Argentina from the 1880s to the 1980s. Against the backdrop of immigration, science, race, sport, populist rule, and dictatorship, the contributors analyze the power of the Argentine state and other social actors to set the boundaries of citizenship. They also address how Argentines contested the meanings of citizenship ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Race and Transnationalism in the Americas

    Edited by Benjamin Bryce, David M. K. Sheinin ...
    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Americas examines the ways that race and its categorization have functioned as organizing frameworks for cultural, political, and social inclusion—and exclusion—in the Americas. Because racial categories are invariably generated through reference to the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina

    Edited by Benjamin Bryce, David Sheinin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society.What it means to be Argentine has long consumed writers, political leaders, and many others. For almost two centuries prominent figures have defined national values while looking out from the urban centers of the country and above ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations

    Edited by Juan Pablo Scarfi, David M. K. Sheinin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-American Union, and later the Organization of American States. But what made Pan-Americanism exceptional? The chapters in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sports Culture in Latin American History

    Edited by David M. K. Sheinin ...
    Series Book 349 - Pitt Latin American Series
    Perhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion, identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a historical and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America. From the late nineteenth century to the present, the contributors reveal how sport opens a wide window into local, regional, and national ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America

    New Studies on History and Literature

    Edited by David Sheinin, Lois Baer Barr ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    A current and comprehensive collection of articles on the Jewish presence in Latin America, this multidisciplinary volume draws on the research and analysis of some of the most prominent scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies from the United States, Canada, Israel, Mexico, and Argentina. These specialists in history, politics, anthropology, and literature present 19 essays, 15 of which are ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo’s founding—this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Becoming Brazilians

    Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil

    by Marshall C. Eakin ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced ... Read more

    $32.79 USD