Bøger i Pitt Latin American Series serien

Fills the Gaps of an Important Modernist Brazilian Writer's Early Career and Illuminates Recurring Themes of His Later Works

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes

How Competing Interests Mobilize and Shape Labor Laws and Reform

An Interdisciplinary History of Aviation and Aviation Symbolism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

Offers Fresh Insight into Crucial Debates over the Causes of Diverging and Converging Political Trajectories in the Region

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Political, Economic, and Cultural Consequences of China's Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean

The First English-Language Book on the History of Public Health in Ecuador during the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

A History of the Women's Antifascism Movement in Argentina That Contains Lessons for Opposing Fascism Today

Follows the Rise and Fall of Evo Morales and the Political and Economic Transformations of Bolivia

A Systematic Analysis of Patronage Appointments in Public Bureaucracies of Seven Latin American Countries

A Study of US Efforts to Undermine the Venezuelan Government in the Name of Promoting Democracy

Highlights the Intersections between Media, Whiteness, and Middle-Class Identity That Feed Brazil's Ultraconservative Movement

Explores the rise in violence in Venezuela even as traditionally linked factors decreased.

Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. They embed the history of civil society within the history of urban planning and its institutionalization to show how urban and regional planning played a key role in the management of the social conflicts surrounding land ownership.

Campbell's fascinating study of the Brazilian Northeast is her emphasis on the way the world beyond the nation served as a site for regional identity formation and as a resource for regionalists eager to demonstrate the centrality of the Northeast to the Brazilian nation and its vibrant culture.

The essays in Against Racism examine actors in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico that move beyond recognition politics to address structural inequalities and material conflicts and build common ground with other marginalized groups.

The San Jose de Apartado Peace Community of small-scale farmers has not waited for a top-down peace treaty. Amid the widespread violence of today's global crisis, Community of Peace illustrates San Jose's rupture from the logics of colonialism and capitalism through the construction of political solidarity and communal peace.

Investigates why parites fail in the context of the contemporary Latin American left.

Examines amnesties in the aftermath of political persecution in Brazil.

Examines the power and limits of the transnational flow of ideas, people, and capital.

Examination of the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform - arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia's 1952 revolution.

Examines the empty promises of the Correa administration during the Ecuadoran Citizens' Revolution.

Contributes to understanding the profound inequality that permeates Chilean history.

A case study exposing how governance strategies in Chile threaten the recognition of Indigenous rights.

An insightful exploration of food policy and politics in Nicaragua.

A social history of elite Spanish loyalists and the groups that challenged them in the years before South American independence.

Ilan Stavans is one of the best known and most prolific Latino academics working today. In preparation for writing Seventh Heaven, Stavans spent five years traveling through Latin America in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region.