Nationalizing Blackness

Robin Dale Moore

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Using the music of the 1920s and 1930s, this text examines Cuban society as it began to embrace Afrocuban culture. It demonstrates how music can funct... Lees meer

Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Ulrich Muecke

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Ulrich Muecke traces the history of Partido Civil, the first modern political party in Peru, and illustrates how it was a reaction to an economic tran... Lees meer

Unresolved Tensions

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• The landslide election of Evo Morales in December 2005 pointed toward a process of accelerated change in Bolivia, forging a path away from globalizati... Lees meer

The Cuban Economy

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Cuba faced an economic meltdown of catastrophic proportions in the early 1990s when covert subsidies from the former Soviet Union disappeared. This an... Lees meer

Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the study of state formation, this work chronicles the changing forms of indigenous engagement with the Ecua... Lees meer

Politics in the Andes

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• The Andean region is perhaps the most violent and politically unstable in the Western Hemisphere. This volume assesses how, despite being shaped by co... Lees meer

Democratic Brazil Revisited

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• As the world's fifth-largest country, Brazil presents a compelling example of democracy in action. This book assesses the impact of competitive politi... Lees meer

Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America

• Boek | Pitt Latin American Series
• When Americans and Latin Americans talk about democracy, are they imagining the same thing? The author headed a research team that in 1998 surveyed 1,... Lees meer

Myths of Harmony

Marixa Lasso

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. This title demonstrates that during Colombia's revolution, free blacks and mula... Lees meer

Lost for Words?

Goetz Frank Ottmann

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• In this text, Goetz Frank Ottmann explores the rise and decline of progressive Catholic grassroots activism and its drive for social justice and democ... Lees meer

Puerto Rico and the United States, 1917-1933

Truman Clark

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• From 1917 to 1933, the United States kept Puerto Rico in limbo, offering it neither a course toward independence nor much hope for prompt statehood. C... Lees meer

High-Tech Trade Wars

Sara Schoonmaker

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• High-Tech Trade Wars focuses on the U.S.-Brazilian trade war concerning the computer industry to examine the conflicts brought about by attempts to co... Lees meer

The Seventh Heaven

Ilan Stavans

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Ilan Stavans is one of the best known and most prolific Latino academics working today. In preparation for writing Seventh Heaven, Stavans spent five ... Lees meer

The Giant’s Rival

Cole Blasier

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• Revised EditionA concise account of Soviet diplomatic, economic, and political-military involvement in the Latin American region, focusing on the post... Lees meer

Struggles of Voice

Jose Antonio Lucero

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• Over the last two decades, indigenous populations in Latin America have achieved remarkable visibility and political effectiveness, particularly in Ec... Lees meer

The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• The first English-language reader on LGBT politics in Latin America. Representing a range of contemporary works by scholars, activists, analysts, and ... Lees meer

Discreet Partners

Aldo Cesar Vacs

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• Beginning with a review of the Argintine-USSR relationship up to 1970, Aldo Vacs describes and analyzes economic, diplomatic, and military development... Lees meer

To Hell with Paradise

Frank Fonda Taylor

• Hardcover | Pitt Latin American Series
• This work studies the problems of founding a tourist industry for a western clientele in a society where most of the population is poor, black and wit... Lees meer

Politics of Social Security in Brazil, The

James Malloy

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• This study follows the progressive evolution of social insurance policy from 1889 to 1979, through four alternating periods of democratic and authorit... Lees meer

Mexico Through Russian Eyes, 1806-1940

William Harrison Richardson

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• Analyses the descriptions given of Mexico by an assortment of Russian visitors, from the employees of the Russian-American Company who made their firs... Lees meer

Rebirth of the Paraguayan Republic

Harris Gaylord Warren

• Paperback | Pitt Latin American Series
• A scholarly study of Paraguay in the decades dominated by the Colorados, immediately following the Allied occupation of the country after the disastro... Lees meer