Steel and Economic Growth in Mexico

William Edward Cole

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 7
• Iron ore is widely distributed over the world and has been mined from ancient times, but Mexico, with a good supply of ore, was a relative newcomer to... Lees meer

Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1886

Arthur F Corwin

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 9
• This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886-from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trad... Lees meer

Elites and Economic Development

John Walton

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 41
• This book is a detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America, two in Mexico and two in Colombia. John W... Lees meer

The Men of Cajamarca

James Lockhart

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 27
• In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian highlands. Their act,... Lees meer

Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia

Ann Twinam

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 57
• The inhabitants of the department of Antioquía in north-central Colombia have played a unique role in that country's economic history. During the colo... Lees meer

Workers from the North

Scott Whiteford

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 54
• International migration between countries in Latin America became increasingly important during the twentieth century, but for a long time it was the ... Lees meer

Supermadre

Elsa M Chaney

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 50
• The title of this book, Supermadre , is ironic. It means, not that women have begun to exercise real power in Latin American political life, but that ... Lees meer

Revolution at Querétaro

E V Niemeyer

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 33
• In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916-1917 came to grips with the basic problem... Lees meer

Imperial Russia and the Struggle for Latin American Independence, 1808-1828

Russell H Bartley

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 43
• This study, the first of its kind in English, examines Russian responses to the independence movement in Latin America during the early nineteenth cen... Lees meer

Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution

Seymour Menton

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 37
• Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, P... Lees meer

Mexico's Recent Economic Growth

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 10
• The Mexican economy underwent a process of growth and transformation in the twentieth century, which was confirmed by the indexes and figures that eco... Lees meer

Politics of the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935-1939

Leslie B Rout

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 19
• After three years of indecisive but bloody war, guns lay silent in the Chaco Boreal in June 1935. Fifty years of bickering between Bolivia, a landlock... Lees meer

Exiles and Citizens

Patricia W Fagen

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 29
• At the end of the Spanish civil war, Mexico was the only country to offer open refuge to the thousands of Republican emigrés who fled from Spain in 19... Lees meer

Epidemic Disease in Mexico City, 1761-1813

Donald B Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 3
• Five deadly epidemics, chiefly typhus and smallpox, struck Mexico City in the years between 1761 and 1813, claiming a minimum of fifty thousand lives.... Lees meer

Political Groups in Chile

Ben G Burnett

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 21
• Before the Pinochet coup in 1973, Chile had a lengthy history of constitutionalism. Early in the republican era the aristocracy established order in t... Lees meer

Landowners in Colonial Peru

Keith a Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 61
• In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devote... Lees meer

Growth, Equality, and the Mexican Experience

Morris Singer

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 16
• Central to the research that went into the preparation of this monograph is the relationship between economic development and equality. To determine a... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800-1870

John Hoyt Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 48
• Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 186... Lees meer

The Inter American Press Association

Mary A Gardner

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 6
• The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pres... Lees meer

The Ideal of the Practical

Frank Safford

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 39
• The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in... Lees meer

Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil, 1808-1871

Thomas Flory

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 53
• In nineteenth-century Brazil the power of the courts rivaled that of the central government, bringing to it during its first half century of independe... Lees meer

The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889-1930

Steven Topik

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 71
• In this first overview of the Brazilian republican state based on extensive primary source material, Steven Topik demonstrates that well before the di... Lees meer

At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky

Gary Urton

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 55
• This is the first study that provides a description and analysis of the astronomical and cosmological system in a contemporary community in the Americ... Lees meer

The Politics of Puerto Rican University Students

Arthur Liebman

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Latin American Monograph | nr. 20
• In the 1960s, when students everywhere were coming alive politically, and when the Latin American student activist in particular became as archetypal ... Lees meer