Wellbeing and Development in Peru

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently e... Lees meer

Reinventing Modernity in Latin America

N Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumpt... Lees meer

Venezuela, Alba, and the Limits of Postneoliberal Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Asa K Cusack

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• Enriches understanding of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) in South America, discussing its function and impact Includes ... Lees meer

Small States in Global Affairs

J Braveboy-Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book updates the 1989 volume 'Caribbean in World Affairs' providing a comprehensive and theoretically-grounded account of diplomatic developments... Lees meer

The Inter-American Human Rights System

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This volume brings together innovative work from emerging and leading scholars in international law and political science to critically examine the im... Lees meer

Chineseness in Chile

Maria Montt Strabucchi, Carol Chan, María Elvira Ríos

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. It does so by discussing the many voices, image... Lees meer

Cuba, from Fidel to Raúl and Beyond

Vegard Bye

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raúl Castro's leadership and its immediate... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• Benefiting from a truly Pan-American perspective, these essays evaluate the economics and politics of the new patterns of North-South integration in t... Lees meer

The Nitrate King

W Edmundson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King, ' a mechanic in Leeds who becam... Lees meer

A New Chapter in Us-Cuba Relations

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book explores the diverse consequences of Presidents Obama and Castro brokering a rapprochement between the United States and Cuba after more tha... Lees meer

Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging

Patria Román-Velázquez, Jessica Retis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans ... Lees meer

Democratization, Development, and Legality

J Faundez

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book traces the evolution of Chilean political and legal institutions by looking at the process of democratization. As well as explaining the str... Lees meer

When Was Latin America Modern?

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• Stemming from an interdisciplinary convention in 2005 at the Institute for the Studies of the Americas in London, this collection has a strong themati... Lees meer

Ronald Reagan and the 1980s

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American presi... Lees meer

Reconfiguring the Union

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War no... Lees meer

Cuba's Military 1990-2005

H Klepak

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book is the first examination of the Cuban military in the context of Cuba's political and economic challenges in the aftermath of the collapse o... Lees meer

The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• During the last two decades the judiciary has come to play an increasingly important political role in Latin America. Constitutional courts and suprem... Lees meer

Post-Colonial Trinidad

C Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• Clarke and Clarke have created a journal that provides an ethnographic record of the East Indians and Creoles of San Fernando - and the entire sugar b... Lees meer

Peru in Theory

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establish... Lees meer

The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election.... Lees meer

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City

James Clifford Kent

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• Examines the global politics of representation of Havana through visual culture Challenges existing representations of various recognizable spaces of ... Lees meer

Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women's activism in Latin America, with specific... Lees meer

History and Language in the Andes

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored i... Lees meer

Governance After Neoliberalism in Latin America

J Grugel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• Two decades of neoliberalism in Latin America have left legacies of uneven growth, inequity and lackluster democracy. This book offers an original and... Lees meer