Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America, Hardcover - Nicola Miller

An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America--and beyond The rise of nation-states is a hallmark ...

One of ECLAC's most important annual reports, this analyses the economic performance of the region throughout the year, the international context a...

DescriptionThis book covers the story of all the British military aircraft that served in Latin America since 1940. Though the presence of British ...

Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about ...

Reducere. The entrepreneurial journey is lonely-especially if you're looking to start a business in Latin America, where opportunities are ripe but resources...

Promoting true development requires the guarantee of an adequate healthy diet. This can only be achieved through the commitment of States, which is...

Sets out and analyses the main foreign direct investment (FDI) trends in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. In the region, FDI inflo...

Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as peo...

The report finds that it is necessary to integrate both technical and functional capacities into innovation processes. To strengthen capacity build...

The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled experti...

Reducere. Centuries of foul play in the Department of Justice (DOJ) in this country, fortified through deceptive practices, has temporized the freedom of far...

Reducere. Fascinating in its own right, new growth theory helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intelle...

Reducere. Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America. As the nation has polarized, its most populous and economically powerful states have ...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

Reducere. From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.Whe...

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This book offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay. Esse...

Reducere. Description" Cass's] core principle--a culture of respect for work of all kinds--can help close the gap dividing the two Americas...." - William A....

This book shows how and why politicians and police actors confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to contain criminal violence in urban a...

Reducere. Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United St...

In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elect...

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the compl...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Ben (Lecturer, University of Stirling) WilliamsonIllustration(s): 0 figure; 0 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber o...

Reducere. Relicarios--finely crafted, bi-faced lockets of gold or silver--are artifacts of the Spanish Colonial era. These exquisite jewels containing devoti...

It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western ...

This book offers a comprehensive, region-wide examination of the politics of taxation in Latin America, one of the most pressing issues to confront...

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victims-including the dead-d...

The past decade has seen major political upheaval in Latin America--from Brazil to Chile to Venezuela to Bolivia--but to understand what happened, ...

Reducere. In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song "The Tide Is High, " or...

Reducere. Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an o...

Reducere. (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America is an introduction to the production and theorization of functionalist architecture in Latin America from ...

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. This volume excavates his ...

Focusing on the processes of accumulation, concentration, and centralisation of capital, Rubens Sawaya traces the transnationalisation of capital a...

Publisher: Arkose PressAuthor(s): George Washington CrichfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 704Publication date: ...

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a fac...

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This bo...

Reducere. The Business of Leisure critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hos...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): John KrigeIllustration(s): 8 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): John KrigeIllustration(s): 8 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x...

In this updated and redesigned edition of the New York Times bestseller, Newt and Callista Gingrich invite you on a walking tour of America's capit...

Shows that foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviors, or invest...

Reducere. Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for th...

Reducere. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attack...

Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism in Latin America. Overlooked by journalists and scholars has been the parallel growth of C...

Reducere. This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America's natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to ...

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