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“michael shifter”

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  • Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America

    Edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Michael Shifter ...
    Series series An Inter-American Dialogue Book
    After more than a century of assorted dictatorships and innumerable fiscal crises, the majority of Latin America's states are governed today by constitutional democratic regimes. Some analysts and scholars argue that Latin America weathered the 2008 fiscal crisis much better than the United States. How did this happen? Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter asked area specialists to examine the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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    The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of HowSoccer Shaped Latin America

    by Andreas Campomar ...
    The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading.“Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that soccer plays in Latin America.Andreas Campomar offers readers the definitive history of Latin American soccer from ... Read more

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  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present

    by Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country and how national identity was formed as they became Brazilians along with their children and ... Read more

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  • The Return of the Native

    Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

    by Rebecca A. Earle ...
    Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the ... Read more

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  • Latin American Politics

    An Introduction

    by David Close ...
    Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Cortés and Montezuma

    by Maurice Collis ...
    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Read more

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  • The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America

    Edited by William H. Beezley, Judith Ewell ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    SR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history have been combined into one exciting new volume. The most compelling chapters from these books are now presented in The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America. This collection offers powerful, fascinating biographies of ordinary people caught in the sometimes devastating historical ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Maras

    Gang Violence and Security in Central America

    by Lucía Dammert, Elizabeth Skinner, Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America's mara gangs, but there have been few clear-eyed analyses of the history, hierarchies, and future of the mara phenomenon. The first book to look specifically at the Central American gang problem by drawing on the perspectives of researchers from different ... Read more

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  • State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1900

    by Fernando Lopez-Alves ...
    Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led to the creation of a variety of states and regimes, from authoritarian military oligarchies to popular democracies. Using a rigorous logic of comparison, Fernando López-Alves explores the roots of state building in five countries and explains why the ... Read more

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  • The Dispossessed

    Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia

    by Alfredo Molano, Aviva Chomsky ...
    Translated by Daniel Bland ...
    “This book is proof that today’s Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn’t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that ‘the way to understand wasn’t to study people but to listen to them.’ The testimonies that Molano collects are a point of departure for a work that knows how to relate, like few others can, Colombia’s pain in a language that has ... Read more

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  • A Very Special Life: The Bernice Chronicles

    One Woman’s Odyssey Through Twentieth Century Jewish America

    by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz ...
    This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives of a generation of pre-WWI urban Jews in America with immigrant parents.Her life story reflects much ... Read more

    $84.09 USD