Collection: Latin American Studies
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Worldmaking after empire
Adom getachewDecolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just...
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In praise of addiction
Elizabeth f. s. robertsA transformative way of understanding addiction—and an invitation to find connection in the pleasures of life we know are bad for usElizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her mother’s hoarding...
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Mexico
Paul gillinghamA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Pa...
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Centring disability
Tanmoy bhattacharyaThis book demands reconfiguring the centre of knowledge generation by relocating disability from its present peripheral position to the centre.
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Puerto rico
Jorell meléndez-badilloA panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo p...
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Imagining the past, remembering the future
Isis barra costaImagining the Past, Remembering the Future investigates the interlinked art, history, religion, philosophy, and cosmology of oral traditions across the Afro-Brazilian diaspora, arguing that these varied cultural expressions together constitute distinctive forms of knowledge.
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Little magazine, world form
Eric jon bulsonLittle magazines made modernism. Little Magazine, World Form shows that their reach and importance extended far beyond Europe and the United States. By investigating the global and transnational itineraries of the little-magazine form, Eric Bulson uncovers a worldwide network that influenced the ...
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The plum in the golden vase or, chin p'ing mei, volume one
David tod royThe first volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the first volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that ...
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Sorting out the mixed economy
Amy c. offnerThe untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out ...
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The dialectic is in the sea
Beatriz nascimento , Christen a. smith , Bethânia n. f. gomes , Archie daviesCollected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gend...
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El precio del fuego
Benjamin danglThe ongoing clashes between corporate and peoples' power in Bolivia, told with historic and cultural context.
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The dispossessed
Alfredo molano , Aviva chomsky , Lance selfa , Daniel blandThe stories of ordinary Colombians displaced by war who are struggling, with dignity, to live.
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Sin patrón
Lavaca collective , Naomi klein , Avi lewisThe inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves.
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The limitless heart
Cheryl boyce-taylorEncompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work so stirring. With deep empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor’s work explores questions of immigra...
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Brazil's dance with the devil
Dave zirinThe leading US commentator on the politics of sports explores the coming Olympics in Brazil.
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Sojourners in the capital of the world
Maximo g. martinezA comprehensive history and insider’s account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present day.In recent years, Latinos—primarily Central American migrants—crossing the southern border of the United States have dominated the national media, as the legitimacy of their detention and of...
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On power and ideology
Noam chomskyThis succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky's foreign policy analysis.
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Turning the tide
Noam chomskyUS Central American policies project broader US economic, military, and social aims, impacting millions in Central America.
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The mexican revolution
Stuart easterlingWhy did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all?
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The souths in her
Nicole m. morris johnsonNicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Dianne McIntyre, Maryse Condé, and Ntozake Shange, among others, showing how unexpected encounters with unfamiliar traditions and creative visions of m...
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Dependency, neoliberalism and globalization in latin america
Carlos eduardo martinsCarlos Eduardo Martins ' essential update of the, still indispensable, Marxist Theory of Dependency.
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An ethos of blackness
Vivaldi jean-marieThis book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.
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The politics of passion
Gloria wekkerGloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and...
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Making land legible
Diego alfonso erba , Mario andrés piumettoThis report describes the past, present, and future role of cadastres as a land policy tool in Latin America. It shows how national, regional, and local jurisdictions have used updated orthodox and or/multipurpose cadastres (MPCs) to strengthen urban financing and inform planning decisions. The r...
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Human development
Henry veltmeyerCapitalism is a system in crisis. In the context of an urgent need for an alternative system, Cuba provides valuable lessons. The Cuban Revolution’s unique features have allowed it to survive both the conditions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet model of socialism and the renewed assa...
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Untrusting
Marta-laura haynesThis book investigates the fraught pursuit of democratic policing in Brazil, where trust is both a necessity and a precarious gamble.
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Repertoires of terrorism
Andreas e. feldmannAndreas E. Feldmann examines the disparate behavior of actors including guerrilla groups, state security forces, and paramilitaries during Colombia’s long and bloody civil war. Analyzing the varieties of violence in this conflict, he develops a new theory of the dynamics of terrorism in civil wars.
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Democracy on the ground
Gabriel hetlandThis book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country.
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Lessons from the zapatistas
Lia pinheiro barbosa , Peter m. rosset , Henry veltmeyer , Peter m. rossetEssential reading on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico — its history, its peoples’ autonomy and its revolutionary thought.
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Trade relations between colombia and the united states
Jeffrey j. schottThis volume analyzes the economic effects of a prospective free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia. The study uses the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade and economic activity to analyze the expected trade and other economic impacts of the prospective FT...
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Progress in latin america (in the post-covid reality)
Magdalena lisińska , Monika sawickaThis book addresses questions about the lessons learned by Latin American countries and societies from the pandemic.
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Connected histories, shared present
Sonya surabhi guptaThe essays in the book look at the transcontinental dialogic relationship which emerges from the cross-cultural experiences between Latin America, Caribbean and India and directs our gaze towards a present animated by mutual interest and transcultural fertilization.
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Economic normalization with cuba
Gary clyde hufbauer , Barbara kotschwar , Cathleen cimino-isaacsWill the Obama administration's decision to normalize relations with Cuba usher in a new era of economic cooperation, trade, and investment between the two countries? This prescient book, published only eight months before President Obama's historic announcement at the end of 2014, provides answe...
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Rhetorical powers
Sasikumar sundaramSasikumar Sundaram provides a bold new theory of rhetoric as power politics, demonstrating how non-Western states challenge their silencing within the Western-led international order.
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Agriculture and industry in brazil
Albert fishlow , José eustáquio ribeiro vieira filho , José a. scheinkmanAgriculture and Industry in Brazil is a study of the economics of Brazilian agriculture and industry, with a special focus on the importance of innovation to productivity growth. It examines technological change in Brazil, highlighting the role of public policy in building institutions and creati...
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Prospects for free trade in the americas
Jeffrey j. schottNegotiations on a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) were officially launched at the Santiago Summit in April 1998. This study examines the prospects for the FTAA in light of recent economic and political turmoil in Latin America and the continuing impasse over US "fast-track" authority. The ...
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Island in the net
Steffen köhnAn exploration of Cuba’s emerging digital culture and Cubans’ creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets, and online spaces for public debateUntil just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the least-connected countries in the world. But as digital technology has become increasingly availa...
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María félix
Niamh thorntonMaría Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse.Di...
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Up against the wall
Peter laufer , Vicente foxThe book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
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To the victor, the potatoes!
Roberto schwarzNewly available in English, a magisterial work by one of the world's most esteemed Marxist literary critics.
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Grieving
Cristina rivera garza , Sarah bookerThis philosophical investigation into state violence and mourning in twenty-first-century Mexico weaves together personal essay and literary theory, giving voice to the political experience of collective pain.
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Dēmos
Benjamín naka-hasebe kingsley“Unflinching, unrelenting, disarming, and brilliant . . . A powerhouse collection of poems by a powerhouse poet.” —VICTORIA CHANG
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Power and impotence
Fabio luis barbosa dos santosA timely and instructive reconsideration of South America 's recent 'progressive' era.
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Form and feeling
Antonio sergio bessa , Michael asbury , Antonio sergio bessa , Claudia calirman , Frederico coelho , Simone homem de mello , Marcos gonçalves , Jose lira , Fernanda lopes , Martin mäntele , Claudia saldanha , Eduardo sterzi , Luisa valleWinner, 2022 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated CategoryA significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the ...
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The politics of public debt
Daniel binThis ground-breaking study analyzes the underlying economic realities in Brazil that led to the 2016 coup ousting the Worker 's Party
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Women of the forest
Yolanda murphy , Robert f. murphy , R. brian ferguson , William balée , Janet m. chernela , Judith shapiro , Orna johnson , Thomas a. gregorWhen it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book's importance for contemporary studies on gender and life in the Amazon. The book covers Yolanda ...
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The combination of all forms of struggle
Alexandra rachel phelanInvestigating the relationship between FARC and the Colombian state from the outbreak of conflict in 1964 to the signing of the final peace agreement in 2016, Alexandra Rachel Phelan offers new insight into the dynamics of insurgencies.
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Roberto bolaño's fiction
Chris andrewsSince the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engagin...
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