Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective st... Lees meer

Media, Sound, & Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated cultural st... Lees meer

Newsrooms in Conflict

Sallie Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• Newsrooms in Conflict examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media instituti... Lees meer

Los Archivos de Cuba

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• The Archives of Cuba/Los archivos de Cuba is the first comprehensive guide to the archival holdings and manuscript collections located throughout the ... Lees meer

Social Security in Latin America

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• A comprehensive and sophisticated study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America. Individual case studies of... Lees meer

Cuba, Castro, and the United States

Philip Bonsal

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• Bonsal combines his memoirs of his experiences in Havana with an analysis of the relationship between Cuba and the United States both during the Batis... Lees meer

A Forced Agreement

Anne-Marie Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• During much of the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985), an elaborate but illegal system of restrictions prevented the press from covering important ... Lees meer

The Weak and the Powerful

Jonathan C Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus through t... Lees meer

Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina

F Antunes de Oliveira

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• In the two largest countries in South America, successive waves of structural reforms adopted in the name of development invariably have ended in disa... Lees meer

Democracy Against Parties

Brandon Van Dyck

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Around the world, established parties are weakening, and new parties are failing to take root. In many cases, outsiders have risen and filled the void... Lees meer

Gender and Class in Modern Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Gender figured significantly in the industrial, social, and political transformations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Germany, and Russia. ... Lees meer

Organized Crime and Democratic Governability

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• The United States-Mexico border zone is one of the busiest and most dangerous in the world. NAFTA and rapid industrialization on the Mexican side have... Lees meer

Workers and Welfare

Michelle Dion

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• After the revolutionary period of 1910-1920, Mexico developed a number of social protection programs to support workers in public and private sectors ... Lees meer

The Cuban Embargo

Patrick Haney, Walter Vanderbush

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• The United States and Cuba share a complex, fractious, interconnected history. Before 1959, the United States was the island nation's largest trading ... Lees meer

Voices of Change in Cuba from the Non-State Sector

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent of the country's labor force, currently make up the nonstate sector. These include self-empl... Lees meer

Destape

Natalia Milanesio

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Under dictatorship in Argentina, sex and sexuality were regulated to the point where sex education, explicit images, and even suggestive material were... Lees meer

Mexican Icarus

Peter B Soland

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• The development of aviation in Mexico reflected more than a pragmatic response to the material challenges brought on by the 1910 Revolution. It was al... Lees meer

The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil

Roger a Kittleson

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil traces the history of high and low politics in nineteenth-century Brazil from the vantage point of the... Lees meer

The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Crime and violence soared in twenty-first-century Venezuela even as poverty and inequality decreased, contradicting the conventional wisdom that these... Lees meer

Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as... Lees meer

Hawks of the Sun

L C Faron

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American
• Southern central Chile supports one of the largest functioning indigenous societies in South America, the Mapuche, who have withstood more than four h... Lees meer

Juan Peron and the Reshaping of Argentina

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• Although Juan Peron changed the course of modern Argentine history, scholars have often interpreted him in terms of their own ideologies and interests... Lees meer

An Agrarian Republic

Aldo Lauria

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured befo... Lees meer

Xuxub Must Die

Paul Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Latin American | nr. 349
• Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went fo... Lees meer