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“geoff g burrows”

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  • The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration

    New Deal Public Works, Modernization, and Colonial Reform

    by Geoff G. Burrows ...
    Honorable Mention, Living New Deal Book AwardAn important New Deal program that shaped the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United StatesThis book explores the history and impact of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), the most important New Deal agency to operate in Puerto Rico and the largest created for any United States territory. Geoff Burrows demonstrates how the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Harvest of Empire

    A History of Latinos in America: Second Revised and Updated Edition

    by Juan Gonzalez ...
    A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States—thoroughly revised and updated.The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Latin America at 200

    A New Introduction

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Between 2010 and 2025, most of the countries of Latin America will commemorate two centuries of independence, and Latin Americans have much to celebrate at this milestone. Most countries have enjoyed periods of sustained growth, while inequality is showing modest declines and the middle class is expanding. Dictatorships have been left behind, and all major political actors seem to have accepted ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Dancing with Dynamite

    Social Movements and States in Latin America

    by Benjamin Dangl ...
    Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin America's Turbulent Transitions

    The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism

    by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes ...
    Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this new, so-called Twenty-First-Century Socialism actually manifest ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Populism in Latin America

    Second Edition

    by Michael L. Conniff, Jorge Basurto, Steve Ellner, Joel Horowitz, William Francis Robinson, Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, Steve Stein, Kurt Weyland, Paul Drake, Dr. Kenneth Roberts, Ph.D0 ...
    A scholarly analysis of the origins, evolution, and enduring impact of populism in Latin American political life.This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.For more than one hundred years—from the beginning of the twentieth to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW

    Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, California

    by Dionicio Nodín Valdés ...
    Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational struggles by rural workers in the twentieth. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW offers a comparative examination of those struggles, which were the era's longest and most protracted campaigns by agricultural workers, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Second Conquest of Latin America

    Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930

    Edited by Steven C. Topik, Allen Wells ...
    Series series LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
    Between 1850 and 1930, Latin America's integration into the world economy through the export of raw materials transformed the region. This encounter was nearly as dramatic as the conquistadors' epic confrontation with Native American civilizations centuries before. An emphasis on foreign markets and capital replaced protectionism and self-sufficiency as the hemisphere's guiding principles. In many ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Enduring Legacy

    Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

    by Miguel Tinker Salas, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Brazil, 1964-1985

    The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Series series The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
    An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central and South America were toppled in U.S.-backed military coups, and by 1977 only three ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Nicaragua

    Emerging From the Shadow of the Eagle

    by Thomas W. Walker ...
    Nicaragua: Emerging from the Shadow of the Eagle details the country's unique history, culture, economics, politics, and foreign relations. Its historical coverage considers Nicaragua from pre-Columbian and colonial times as well as during the nationalist liberal era, the U.S. Marine occupation, the Somoza dictatorship, the Sandinista revolution and government, the conservative restoration after ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Brazil

    by Joel Wolfe ...
    Series series Polity Histories
    Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status of a failed state.In this vibrant and smart book, Joel Wolfe tells the story of this “incomplete nation” and its two-hundred-year ... Read more

    $12.00 USD