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Although Juan Peron changed the course of modern Argentine history, scholars have often interpreted him in terms of their own ideologies and interests, rather than seeing the effect of this man and his movement had on the Argentine people. These essays seek to uncover the man behind the myth, to define the true nature of Peronism.

Based on interviews with more than 100 participants, Van Cott demonstrates how social issues were placed on the constitutional reform agenda and transformed into the nation's highest law. She follows each reform for five years to assess early results of what she calls an emerging model of multicultural constitutionalism.

A collection of essays examining the intersection between water conservation and women's roles in a variety of Latin American settings-rural and urban, across a range of countries.

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

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.

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

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

Cuban studies scholars explore reforms, away from communism.

Examines Tough on Crime Rhetoric and Policies in Latin America

These multidisciplinary essays explore the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America, and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents.

Nallim chronicles the decline of liberalism in Argentina during the volatile period between two military coups-the 1930 overthrow of Hipolito Yrigoyen and the deposing of Juan Peron in 1955.

A groundbreaking national and regional study of corruption and its relation to democracy in Latin America. This book provides policy analysis and prescription through a wide-ranging methodological, empirical, and theoretical survey.

A compelling account of how civic and media-based initiatives have successfully fought for greater governmental accountability in the emerging democracies of Latin America.

Using detailed case studies, this text provides a means of understanding the political change in Latin America. It offers insight into central issues such as economic reform, human rights, and immigration.

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.

Mayan rebels killed an American plantation manager in 1875, but no one has ever unravelled why this murder took place. Paul Sullivan's fascinating and skillful telling of this story reads like a mystery novel.

Through ground-level fieldwork, extensive interviews with local Mapuche and Chileans, and analysis of contemporary race and governance theory, Richards exposes the ways that local, regional, and transnational realities are shaped by systemic racism in the context of neoliberal multiculturalism..

In this groundbreaking study, E. Gabrielle Kuenzli revisits the events of the Bolivian civil war and its aftermath during the early twentieth-century, to dispel popular myths about the Aymara and reveal their forgotten role in the nation-building project of modern Bolivia.

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.

In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. Focusing his study on the town of La Salina, Rosenthal presents a fascinating glimpse into the workings of the early Colombian state, its institutions, and their interactions with local citizens during this formative period.

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By exploring controversies such as the veracity of the Black Legend, the location of Christopher Columbus's mortal remains, and the survival of indigenous cultures, this study shows how recorded history became implicated in the struggles over empire.

Examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media institution into many conflicting styles of journalism with very different implications for deepening democracy in the country.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the crisis of relations between state and society in five Andean countries from the 1980s to the present.

A thorough examination of U. S. economic relations with Cuba, this text discusses the history of the embargo policy as well as current changes in attitudes. It demonstrates the serious effects domestic politics can have on foreign policy.

A major reference tool, providing thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, this book defines research on postemancipation societies in North America, South America, Latin America, and Africa.

An interdisciplinary assessment of El Salvador's history, politics, and culture from the late nineteenth century through the present.

The story of the women's movement in Nicaragua is a fascinating tale of resistance, strategy, and faith. Still Fighting combines social theory with field research, leading a new wave of scholarship on women in Latin America.