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| 1. |  | Title: Authoritarian Argentina: the Nationalist movement, its history, and its impact Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: David Rock has written the first comprehensive study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right wing movement has had a profound impact on twentieth-century Ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | Title: Latin American vanguards: the art of contentious encounters Author: Unruh, Vicky Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism - a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers - was stimulated by the Eur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | Title: Searching for life: the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina Author: Arditti, Rita 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: FROM THE BOOK :"I want to touch you and kiss you.""You are my mother's sister and only one year older; you must have something of my mother in you." - A found child after being returned to her family Searching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The invention of Argentina Author: Shumway, Nicolas Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Intellectual History Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | Title: Bureaucratic authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in comparative perspective Author: O'Donnell, Guillermo A Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | Title: Writing the character-centered screenplay Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Writing Publisher's Description: "We need good screenwriters who understand character." Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book - from Hollywood to Hungary - he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's earlier lead in focusing almost exclusively on . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | 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 |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | Title: Siting translation: history, post-structuralism, and the colonial context Author: Niranjana, Tejaswini 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Southeast Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwrit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Dignity and vulnerability: strength and quality of character Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this significant new addition to moral theory, George Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. Wh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Latin American Studies | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items |