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  • Chile Underground

    The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City

    by Andra B Chastain ...
    A fascinating historical examination of the Santiago Metro system as a microcosm of Chilean national identity during the twentieth centuryThe Santiago Metro, the largest urban infrastructure project in Chile’s history, was designed in the 1960s in response to rapid urban growth. Despite the upheavals of Salvador Allende’s democratic socialism (1970–1973) and Augusto Pinochet’s military ... Read more

    $93.49 CAD

  • Itineraries of Expertise

    Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War

    Edited by Andra B. Chastain, Timothy W. Lorek ...
    Series Book 5 - Intersections
    Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

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  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Mayan in the Mall

    Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

    by J. T. Way ...
    In The Mayan in the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational corporate headquarters coexist with some of the Western Hemisphere's poorest and most violent ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Women and Guerrilla Movements

    Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba

    by Karen Kampwirth ...
    The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new men" who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Land without Masters

    Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government

    by Anna Cant ...
    In 1969, Juan Velasco Alvarado’s military government began an ambitious land reform program in Peru, transferring holdings from large estates to peasant cooperatives. Fifty years later this reform remains controversial: critics claim it unjustly expropriated land and ruined the Peruvian economy, while supporters emphasize its success in addressing rural inequality and exploitation.Moving beyond ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • The World That Latin America Created

    The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era

    by Margarita Fajardo ...
    Series Book 192 - Harvard historical studies;
    How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world.After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an intellectual movement that would eventually capture the world. They charged that the systems of trade and ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Water for All

    Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia

    by Sarah T. Hines ...
    Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, which is known for acute water scarcity and explosive water protests. Sarah T. Hines examines conflict and compromises over water from the 1870s to the 2010s, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Analyzing a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Peculiar Revolution

    Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule

    Edited by Carlos Aguirre, Paulo Drinot ...
    On October 3, 1968, a military junta led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado took over the government of Peru. In striking contrast to the right-wing, pro–United States/anti-Communist military dictatorships of that era, however, Velasco’s “Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces” set in motion a left-leaning nationalist project aimed at radically transforming Peruvian society by eliminating ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Waking from the Dream

    Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968

    by Louise E. Walker ...
    When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party struggled to recover its legitimacy, but instead saw its support begin to erode. In the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Struggle for Natural Resources

    Findings from Bolivian History

    Edited by Carmen Soliz, Rossana Barragán ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    The Struggle for Natural Resources traces the troubled history of Bolivia's land and commodity disputes across five centuries, combining local, regional, national, and transnational scales. Enriched by the extractivism and commodity frontiers approaches to world history, the book treats Bolivia's political struggles over natural resources as long-term processes that outlast immediate political ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Logic of Compromise in Mexico

    How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism

    by Gladys I. McCormick ...
    In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD