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

Small States in Global Affairs

J Braveboy-Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the international relations system... 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

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 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

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

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
• The first book-length biography of John Thomas North (1842-1896), known as 'Colonel North' in Britain and throughout the world as 'The Nitrate King, '... 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

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
• Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture

J King

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• The Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) is a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin America... Lees meer

Debating Cuban Exceptionalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Americas
• This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent definitive demise of state socia... Lees meer