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“ryan c edwards”

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  • A Carceral Ecology

    Ushuaia and the History of Landscape and Punishment in Argentina

    by Ryan C. Edwards ...
    Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world’s southernmost prison. Ushuaia’s radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Mystery of Samba

    Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

    by Hermano Vianna, John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country’s African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Colombia Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, Ana María Gómez López ...
    Series series The Latin America Readers
    Containing over one hundred selections—most of them published in English for the first time—The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories, government documents, and scholarship to illustrate the changing ways Colombians from all walks of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • 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

  • A Camera in the Garden of Eden

    The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

    by Kevin Coleman ...
    In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company’s power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries in which it operated, giving rise to the notion of company-dominated “banana republics.”In A ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Adiós Niño

    The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death

    by Deborah T. Levenson ...
    In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Courage Tastes of Blood

    The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001

    by Daniel J. Walkowitz, Florencia E. Mallon ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across the entire twentieth century, from its founding in the resettlement process that followed the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

    by Susanna B. Hecht ...
    A "compelling and elegantly written" history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Inka Road

    Engineering an Empire

    by John Oschendorf ...
    This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced engineering and construction skills of the Inca people. The ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • San Miguel de Allende

    Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

    by Lisa Pinley Covert ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico—worked to demonstrate that it ... Read more

    $21.59 USD