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Kenneth Serbin uncovers the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship. It illuminates the complicity of the Catholic Church in the military's subversive PR campaigns, abductions, and torturings.

Presents a complex analysis of the development of the Jamaican tourist industry, combining economics with political and cultural history.

A study of the rise of Bolivian tin miners into a politically active labor movement during the early twentieth century, and their eventual challenge to the oligarchy controlling the nation.

Considers Ecuador's united indigenous movement and compares it to the more fragmented situation in Bolivia. This book analyzes the mechanisms at work in political and social structures to explain the different outcomes in various cases.

Centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. This title demonstrates that during Colombia's revolution, free blacks and mulattos (pardos) actively joined and occasionally even led the cause to overthrow the Spanish colonial government.

This text provides archival research on the agrarian history of El Salvador during the 19th century, a period of expanding commercial and export agriculture which saw the emergence of important conflicts over land tenure use in much of Latin America.

Based on research in Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States, this book aims to reconstruct how abolitionism arose as a critique of the particular structures of capitalism and colonialism in Spain and the Antilles. More generally, it tells a story central to slavery, race, and empire.

During the wars for independence in Spanish South America (1808-1826), thousands of slaves enlisted under the promise of personal freedom and, in some cases, freedom for other family members. This book offers an investigation of this issue from the perspectives of Royalists, patriots, and slaves.

The first comprehensive history of the mlitary's role in Bolivian state formation.

The First History of the Destape as a Large-Scale Media Phenomenon and Transformative Force in Sexual Ideologies and Practices

Examines Tough on Crime Rhetoric and Policies in Latin America

The Story of US Relations with the Stroessner Dictatorship

Using Ecuador as her case study, she shows how industrial growth has given birth to an exclusive, ingrown bourgeoisie that is highly dependent on the state and foreign capital and is increasingly alienated from the peasants and urban poor.

Introduces to a larger audience the work of a group of Mexican writers whose work reflects the stimulus of the ""boom"" of the 1960s, especially in the experimental nueva novella. Duncan views the work of six writers in the context of more well known writers of the period, and concludes with a chapter on other recent innovators in Mexican literature.

This pioneering study of the dynamics of city politics in one of Puerto Rico's largest townships examines the fascinating career of Benjamin Cole. A quasi-legendary figure in island politics, Cole's spectacular success offers insights in the currents of change that swept the island from the 1960s through the 1990s.

The definitive account of the expulsion laws passed in 1827-1829 and 1833-34 and the chaos they caused in the new Mexican republic.

Looking back through the prism of the severe economic crisis for filmmaking in the 1980s, this book trace the development of this industry in Brazil, focusing specifically on its relationship to the state.

A comprehensive and sophisticated study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America.

Perez follows the rise and fall of the Cuban army, and its increasing political influence, from the Spanish American War until Castro's revolutionary takeover in 1958.

The first book-length analysis of the Bolivian revolution by an American political scientist explains the events of 1952 as a Latin American case study, and links the theme of the revolution with other contemporary insurrection in underdeveloped countries.

"The editors have merged work from two disciplines, economics and political science; in a summary conclusion, a sociologist suggests possible extensions in the comparison of socialist systems for the future. . . . contributes generously to the field."-Slavic Review

Cuban studies scholars explore reforms, away from communism.

More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent of the country's labor force, currently make up the nonstate sector. This development represents a crucial structural reform implemented by Raul Castro since becoming Cuba's leader in 2006, and may become the most dynamic economic force for the country's future.

The culmination of a major survey, this new study attempts for the first time to make "the definition of democracy" in Latin America visible, and thus able to be interpreted.

Provides the only book-length analysis of the environmental situation in Cuba after four decades of socialist rule, based on extensive examination of secondary sources, informed by the study of development and environmental trends in former socialist countries as well as in the developing world.

Perez shows how U.S. armed intervention in Cuba in 1898 and subsequent military occupation revitalized elements of the colonial system that would serve U.S. imperialist interests during Cuba's independence.

Twenty essays by major filmmakers and critics provide the first survey of the evolution of documentary film in Latin America.

George Grayson examines the influence of oil and the oil sector both within Mexican society and in its relations with other nations, as he traces the development of the oil industry from its beginnings in 1901 up until the 1980s.

Paul Sigmund, who has studied Chile for more than a decade, and lived and taught there, offers an exhaustive, balanced analysis of the overthrow of Salvador Allende, and why it occurred. Sigmund examines the Allende government, the Frei government that preceeded it, the coup that ended it, and the Pinochet government that succeeded it.

Sixteen essays discuss authoritarianism and corporatism in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.