Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty ……続きを見る
Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the ……続きを見る
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature,……続きを見る
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2011年09月01日
Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the regio……続きを見る
著者:Paul Almeida
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2014年08月01日
What are the conditions and factors that drive people to protest against government economic policies in the developing world?
Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association……続きを見る
著者:Rubén Gallo
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2014年07月15日
The first discussion of Proust’s circle of Latin American friends, lovers, and literary models.
Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Rubén Gallo's book explores the presence o……続きを見る
著者:Herbert S. Klein
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic,……続きを見る
Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics is the first English-language monograph on this Chilean visual artist and poet (1942–1993). It has two principal aims: first, to introduce Martínez’s poetr……続きを見る
The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of ……続きを見る
**Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any la……続きを見る
Un Viaje al Corazón del Folclore Puertorriqueño
Leyendas Puertorriqueñas es la obra cumbre de Cayetano Coll y Toste, donde la historia documentada se entrelaza magistralmente con la tradición oral. ……続きを見る
In 1981, under the editorship of Victoria Bricker, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended……続きを見る
著者:Robert Wauchope
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年01月07日
Volume 13 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–……続きを見る
The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mes……続きを見る
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landm……続きを見る
著者:David Carrasco
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skil……続きを見る
著者:Jean A. Meyer
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The Cristero movement is an essential part of the Mexican Revolution. When in 1926 relations between Church and state, old enemies and old partners, eventually broke down, when the churches closed a……続きを見る
A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present ur……続きを見る
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of tax systems and tax reforms in a number of Latin American countries since the early 1990‘s, including Argentina and Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, Para……続きを見る
This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms ……続きを見る
Challenging sweatshop labor practices is extremely difficult, but garment workers, labor unions, and non-government organizations from Central America and the United States have successfully mobiliz……続きを見る
著者:Jeffrey Taffet
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年08月06日
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the……続きを見る
Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, ad……続きを見る
著者:Helen Delpar
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2009年06月15日
A comprehensive, ambitious, and valuable work on an increasingly important subject
In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans h……続きを見る
From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor ……続きを見る
著者:Robert Ryal Miller
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2015年01月26日
This book is a skillful synthesis of Mexico's complex and colorful history from pre-Columbian times to the present. Utilizing his many years of research and teaching as well as his personal experien……続きを見る
In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cas……続きを見る
You don't have to be a history lover to enjoy Bernal Diaz del Castillo's first-person narrative "The Conquest of New Spain." His personal tale about being a conquistador during the fall of the Aztec……続きを見る
著者:Mary A. Gardner
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年11月06日
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and s……続きを見る
著者:Joseph A. Kahl
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年11月06日
One of the most interesting questions that can be raised about the twentieth century world concerns the degree to which industrialization created a common culture for all peoples. Reported here are ……続きを見る