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  • Religion and the New Immigrants

    How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens

    by Michael W. Foley, Dean R. Hoge ...
    The explosive growth of the immigrant population since the 1960s has raised concerns about its impact on public life, but only recently have scholars begun to ask how religion affects the immigrant experience in our society. In Religion and the New Immigrants, Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge assess the role of local worship communities in promoting civic engagement among recent immigrants to the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • State, Capital, And Rural Society

    Anthropological Perspectives On Political Economy In Mexico And The Andes

    by Ben Orlove, Michael W Foley, Thomas F Love ...
    This volume represents recent anthropological research on the political economy of Latin America. Dependency theories, modes of production analysis, and theories of the state all attempt to conceptualize the interrelations among "class," "interest," and, at some level, "power." All three, that is, focus on classical questions of political economy. The studies presented in this volume both draw on ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    A New Introduction

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    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

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  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Read more

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  • Blood of Extraction

    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

    by Todd Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based ... Read more

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  • From Silver to Cocaine

    Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, ... Read more

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  • Bolivia

    Processes of Change

    by John Crabtree, Ann Chaplin ...
    Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people have responded to the processes of change that have taken place in the country over the last few ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Maize

    Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

    by Elizabeth Fitting ...
    When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on the extent to which gene flow from transgenic to local varieties threatens maize biodiversity, anti-GM ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Greening Brazil

    Environmental Activism in State and Society

    by Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E. Keck ...
    Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment, and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. The authors trace ... Read more

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  • The New Extractivism

    A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?

    by James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer ...
    In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social ... Read more

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  • The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same

    The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What is their relationship to the explosive social movements that propelled them to power? As China's demand slackens for Latin American commodities, will governments continue to rely on natural resource extraction? In an accessible and ... Read more

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  • Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil

    Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism

    by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its position as a global leader and even as a ‘model’ of commercial, integrated crop production. The country is now seen as an agricultural powerhouse that has a lot to offer in terms of reducing the prospect of a looming, increasingly global, food crisis.Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil ... Read more

    $62.99 USD