Tous les ebooks de la collection "Studies of the Americas" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador Simón Pachano , Francisco Sánchez This book examines the “left turn” in Latin American politics, specifically through the lens of Ecuador and the effects of the Citizens’ Revolution’s actions and public policies on relevant actors and institutions. Through a comprehensive analysis of one country’s turn... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-12-05 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 89,66 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Street Art and Democracy in Latin America Olivier Dabène This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-09-24 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America Jasmine Gideon , Alejandra Ramm This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women’s activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile. Latin America’s mother-centered kinship system makes it an ideal field in which to study motherhood... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-07-10 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Argentinian Dictatorship and its Legacy Juan Grigera , Luciana Zorzoli This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis. Significant social and judicial changes and the opening of archives have led to major revisions of the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-06-01 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 63,29 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile Diego Barría , Manuel Llorca-Jaña , Rory M. Miller Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-03-26 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Mapping South-South Connections Fernanda Peñaloza , Sarah Walsh This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to capitalise on scholarly developments and further unsettle the multiple divides created by the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-03-15 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Necropolitics R. Guy Emerson This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in how necropolitics, as the administration of life and death, is understood. The author locates the forces of mortality directly on the body, rather than as an object of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-02-27 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 79,11 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America Esperanza Hernández Delgado , Cécile Mouly This book explores distinct forms of civil resistance in situations of violent conflict in cases across Latin America, drawing important lessons learned for nonviolent struggles in the region and beyond. The authors analyse campaigns against armed actors in situations... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-01-21 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes Colin Clarke This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-07-16 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 73,84 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Venezuela, ALBA, and the Limits of Postneoliberal Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean Asa K. Cusack This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation, functioning, and impact of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), cornerstone of Venezuelan foreign policy and standard-bearer of “postneoliberal” regionalism during the “Left... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-07-13 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change Edward Ashbee , John Dumbrell 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. Contributors assess the character of “change” and, within this context, survey the extent to which there was enduring... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-11-09 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Peru in Theory P. Drinot Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru?Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-10-23 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru Kenneth A. Loparo This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-09-25 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700-1763 A. Pearce Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-08-20 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Sexual Violence during War and Peace J. Boesten Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchies. Jelke Boesten argues that effective responses to sexual violence in wartime are conditional upon profound changes in... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-04-16 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Raúl Castro and Cuba H. Klepak This book tells the story of the military life of Raúl Castro, an impressive military commander and highly original thinker who is also the longest-serving minister of defense of any country in recent times. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-07-16 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 71,97 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina Kenneth A. Loparo This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-06-18 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela M. Brown A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-06-04 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 58,01 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880 I. Jaksic This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-01-14 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Nitrate King W. Edmundson William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-04-25 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
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