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To Capello, these tropes began to crystallize at the end of the nineteenth century, serving as a tool for distinct groups who laid claim to history for economic or political gain during the upheavals of modernism.

With the 2006 election of Michelle Bachelet as the first female president and women claiming fifty percent of her cabinet seats, the political influence of Chilean women has taken a major step forward.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An Interdisciplinary History of Aviation and Aviation Symbolism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

How Competing Interests Mobilize and Shape Labor Laws and Reform

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

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

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

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

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

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