Magical Reels. A History of Cinema in Latin America, Paperback - John King

A comprehensive analysis, "Magical Reels" charts the development of Latin American film industries in a world increasingly dominated by the advance...

Reducere. Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbole...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents the histories of the revolutions in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as the latest demonstrations of the price the popu...

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years aft...

Carlos Eduardo Martins ' essential update of the, still indispensable, Marxist Theory of Dependency.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Charles ChasteenBorn in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cu...

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

This book highlights the importance of strategy, revealing that gradual reforms produce better results than drastic overhauls imposed by political ...

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction ...

Reducere. DescriptionA beautifully packaged and profound exploration of human desire and queer sexuality in Latin America by the acclaimed Argentinian photog...

DescriptionRevolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 19...

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

Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, cont...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis Gates JrSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Lib...

Reducere. This powerful study makes a compelling case about the key U.S. role in state terrorism in Latin America during the Cold War. Long hidden from publi...

This Element expands on alternative political identifications as a result of decaying party identification to better understand different levels of...

Reducere. The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across th...

A compelling account of a neglected but intense air campaign of the interwar period.

This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in secur...

Reducere. Provides an answer key to the drills and exercises contained in each of the units of John F Collins's bestselling A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin....

Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin LessingOver the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well...

Reducere. Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary ...

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social lab...

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hernaan HornaAuthor: Herman HornaThe history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that fo...

This book examines the contemporary art world in Latin America from an anthropological and historical perspective, and recognises the recent reconf...

Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish an...

Reducere. The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise analysis of U.S. policies in La...

Reducere. For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general ...

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

Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angel...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John F. CollinsThis book aims to give the student within one year the ability to read ecclesiastical Latin. It includes the...

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions an...

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

Taking a reader-friendly approach that focuses on the big picture and uses concrete examples, this book is the perfect introduction to Latin Americ...

An illustrated portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from best-selling author Dan Jones.Illustrations: Integrated illustrations

Examining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reels explores images of shoes in cinema. It questions what shoes mean in the co...

Reducere. This riveting sequel to "My Bloody Life" traces Reymundo Sanchez s struggle to create a normal life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's mo...

DescriptionHow and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or...

Reducere. The map of world Christianity has changed dramatically, with a large number of Christians living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This text is a...