Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “p drinot”
Skip side bar filters

  • Modern Peru

    A New History

    Edited by Alberto Vergara, Paulo Drinot, PhD ...
    Modern Peru: A New History offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. Delving into a past characterized by instability and a series of interrupted national projects, the contributors examine the legacies of Tupac Amaru’s 1780s rebellion and the intense ideological debates between conservatives and liberals about the newly independent nation. They ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Of Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Comparisons: Essays in Honor of Kevin Middlebrook

    Edited by Paulo Drinot, Par Engstrom ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume honors the scholarly contributions of Kevin Middlebrook, presenting essays that explore Mexican labor history, comparative politics, and U.S.–Latin American relations, with a focus on NAFTA/USMCA.The first section engages with Middlebrook’s work on Mexican labor, featuring dialogues on historical and policy analyses and reflections on Mexico’s democratization. The second section ... Read more

    $192.19 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

  • The Great Depression in Latin America

    Edited by Paulo Drinot, PhD, Alan Knight, PhD ...
    Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Peru in Theory

    Edited by P. Drinot ...
    Series series Studies of the Americas
    Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered, racialized, and other forms of exclusion key issues in recent social scientific inquiry in Peru - the contributors to this volume ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Comics and Memory in Latin America

    Edited by Jorge Catalá Carrasco, Paulo Drinot, James Scorer ...
    Series Book 74 - Illuminations
    Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • Che's Travels

    The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America

    by Eduardo Elena, Patience A. Schell, Malcolm Deas, Judith Ewell, Ann Zulawski, Paulo Drinot, PhD ...
    Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • The Allure of Labor

    Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State

    by Paulo Drinot, PhD ...
    In The Allure of Labor, Paulo Drinot rethinks the social politics of early-twentieth-century Peru. Arguing that industrialization was as much a cultural project as an economic one, he describes how intellectuals and policymakers came to believe that industrialization and a modern workforce would transform Peru into a civilized nation. Preoccupied with industrial progress but wary of the disruptive ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Sexual Question

    A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s

    by Paulo Drinot ...
    Series Book 119 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    The creation of Lima's red light district in 1928 marked the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation who sought to control the spread of venereal disease by medically policing female prostitutes. Its closure in 1956 was arguably the high point of abolitionism, a transnational movement originating in the 1860s that advocated that regulation was not only ineffective from a public ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Decentralization and Popular Democracy

    Governance from Below in Bolivia

    by Jean-Paul Faguet ...
    Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public investment shifted dramatically toward primary services and resource distribution became far more equitable, partly due to the creation of new local governments. Many municipalities responded to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Contracultura

    Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    Christopher Dunn’s history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on ... Read more

    Free

  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD