UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin America in the 1940's: war and postwar transitions Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growt . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Women's Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin America Author: Geddes, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business \| Latin American History \| Politics Publisher's Description: In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politici . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: What justice? whose justice?: fighting for fairness in Latin America Author: Eckstein, Susan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Economics and Business \| Conservation \| Latin American Studies \| Politics \| Postcolonial Studies \| Anthropology \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Politics Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film Author: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fear at the edge: state terror and resistance in Latin America Author: Corradi, Juan E 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Politics \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.The c . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Foundational fictions: the national romances of Latin America Author: Sommer, Doris 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Comparative Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Gender Studies Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Books of the brave: being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the sixteenth-century New World Author: Leonard, Irving Albert 1896- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Comparative Literature \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas a . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The New World of the gothic fox: culture and economy in English and Spanish America Author: Véliz, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Claudio Véliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Véliz provides an original and lively approach to understanding the devel . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of modern Colombia: a nation in spite of itself Author: Bushnell, David 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous - as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers - makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin American experiments in neoconservative economics Author: Foxley, Alejandro Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America Author: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Oil and revolution in Mexico Author: Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Anyone contemplating the consequences of foreign investment in Latin America will profit from reading this book. As Jonathan Brown shows, the dynamic growth of the Mexican oil industry resulted from both the domination of foreign capital and Mexico's own economic restructuring, conditions similar to . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imagining development: economic ideas in Peru's "fictitious prosperity" of guano, 1840-1880 Author: Gootenberg, Paul 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Retelling the saga of Peru's nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin America's postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of exp . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fluxus experience Author: Higgins, Hannah 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory \| Art Criticism Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious - Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. Higgins describes the experience of Fluxus f . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translation Author: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| History \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latinos: remaking America Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the U . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paying the price of freedom: family and labor among Lima's slaves, 1800-1854 Author: Hünefeldt, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records - including the testimony of the slaves themselv . . . [more] Similar Items