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| 21. |  | 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 |
| 22. |  | 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 |
| 23. |  | Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope Author: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | American Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz - an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | 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 |
| 25. |  | Title: Peasant and nation: the making of postcolonial Mexico and Peru Author: Mallon, Florencia E 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Anthropology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political histo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | 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 |
| 27. |  | Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | California and the West | Latin American History | Latino Studies | Social Problems | Politics | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | Criminology | Criminology Publisher's Description: In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: Reading Columbus Author: Zamora, Margarita Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | European Literature Publisher's Description: Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological impli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: Refried Elvis: the rise of the Mexican counterculture Author: Zolov, Eric Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Popular Culture | Chicano Studies | Latin American Studies | Contemporary Music Publisher's Description: This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Setting the Virgin on fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution Author: Becker, Marjorie 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Anthropology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Vale of tears: revisiting the Canudos massacre in northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897 Author: Levine, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the event through the eyes of the inhabitants, Levine challenges traditional interpretations and gives weight to the fact that most of the Canudenses were of mixed-raced descent and were thus perceived as op . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: War and society in ancient MesoAmerica Author: Hassig, Ross 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History Publisher's Description: In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: War of shadows: the struggle for utopia in the Peruvian Amazon Author: Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History | Politics | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka te . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: Welcoming the undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish question Author: Lesser, Jeff Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Jewish Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Lesser's invaluable book tells the poignant and puzzling story of how earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "the land of the future." What motivated the Brazilian government, he asks, to create a secret ba . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: Zapata lives!: histories and cultural politics in southern Mexico Author: Stephen, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Politics | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen doc . . . [more] Similar Items |