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  • Business Trajectories in the History of Spain

    Sectors, Figures and Transformations

    Edited by María Vázquez-Fariñas, Francisco Cabrera-Gallardo ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume offers a fresh look at how business in Spain has evolved from the 18th century to today. It examines how entrepreneurs, families, foreign investors, and public institutions shaped the country’s shift from a rural economy to an industrialized society. Through detailed case studies, from steel and coal to tourism and agriculture, it shows how business decisions were influenced by ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • Brazil

    The Troubled Rise of a Global Power

    by Michael Reid ...
    Experts believe that Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    by Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Costa Rica After Coffee

    The Co-op Era in History and Memory

    by Lowell Gudmundson ...
    Costa Rica After Coffee explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. In this follow-up to the 1986 classic Costa Rica Before Coffee, Lowell Gudmundson delves deeply into archival sources, alongside the individual histories of key coffee-growing families, to explore the development of the co-op movement, the rise of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Open for Business

    Building the New Cuban Economy

    by Richard Feinberg ...
    90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Now open to the world, how will this nascent economy develop?Open for Business: The Cuban Economy after Castro, Richard Feinberg’s new book, examines the Cuban economy from its long held and outdated economic model ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Learning from Bogotá

    Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space

    by Rachel Berney ...
    Once known as a “drug capital” and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed “the miracle of Bogotá.” Beginning in the late 1980s, the city emerged from a long period of political and social instability to become an unexpected model of urban development through the redesign and revitalization of the public realm—parks, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu

    Protecting a Community, Heritage Site, and Tourism Destination in Peru

    by Pellegrino A. Luciano ...
    As Latin America completes its second decade of neoliberal reforms, Pellegrino A. Luciano takes readers on an ethnographic journey back to a moment of monumental social and economic change in Peru. In Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu, Luciano describes the privatization struggles and challenges of people living in the district of Machu Picchu, a heritage area and tourism destination, during the ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Portugal in the 21st Century

    Edited by Nuno Monteiro, Patrícia Silva, Pedro C. Magalhães ...
    Portugal in the 21st Century provides a thorough yet accessible picture of contemporary Portugal in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.It examines and elucidates Portugal’s recent trajectory, its current position, and the main challenges it faces through an examination of the principal dimensions of cultural, economic, political, and social development in the country. Bringing ... Read more

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  • Oil in the Soil

    The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon

    by Pamela L. Martin ...
    Paradise may have been found in the Western Amazon, but it is on the brink of destruction. Oil in the Soil analyzes the campaign to save the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador's Amazon and the global networks that have resulted in one of the world's most innovative plans to save the Amazon and other biodiverse places on our planet. Pamela L. Martin examines ... Read more

    $96.39 USD

  • The Handbook of Spanish Language Media

    by Alan Albarran ...
    With the rise of Spanish language media around the world, The Handbook of Spanish Language Media provides an overview of the field and its emerging issues. This Handbook will serve as the definitive source for scholars interested in this emerging field of study; not only to provide background knowledge of the various issues and topics relevant to Spanish language media, but also to establish ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Latin America

    Experiments in Radical Social Democracy

    by Ernesto Vivares, Francisco Dominguez, John Crabtree, Valeria Guarneros-Meza, Guy Burton, Julia Buxton, Sara Motta-Mera, Leonardo Diaz-Echenique, Sue Branford, Patricio Silva, Javier Ozorio ...
    Reclaiming Latin America is a one-stop guide to the revival of social democratic and socialist politics across the region.At the end of the Cold War, and through decades of neoliberal domination and the 'Washington Consensus' it seemed that the left could do nothing but beat a ragged retreat in Latin America. Yet this book looks at the new opportunities that sprang up through electoral politics ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • SMH 2016

    Removals on the Olympic city

    by Lucas Faulhaber, Lena Azevedo, Luiz Baltar ...
    Translated by E. H. Oscar, Antônia Gama ...
    The city of Rio de Janeiro has been an "Olympic champion" in housing prices over the past decade . The intense process of real estate appreciation in the city in recent years has primarily been sustained by the construction work associated with the urban reforms currently underway, and the expectations related to a cluster of events, particularly the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in ... Read more

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