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  • For Social Peace in Brazil

    Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
    This book is the first major study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. Barbara Weinstein examines the vast array of programs sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical, and efficient society. She explores in detail two national agencies founded in the 1940s (SENAI and SESI) that placed ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo’s founding—this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
    The first complete account of the rise and fall of the rubber economy in Brazil provides a dramatic example of one of the "boom and bust" cycles traditionally associated with Brazilian economic history. The Amazon rubber trade was one of the most important export booms in the history of Latin America, dominating the economic life of the Amazon for 70 years until the successful cultivation of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Nationalism in the New World

    by Barbara Weinstein, Craig Calhoun, Eric Van Young, Gary Gerstle, Hayley Froysland, Heather Thiessen-Reily, Jack P. Greene, Jeane DeLaney, Jorge Myers, Phillip Buckner, Susan-Mary Grant, T. H. Breen, Wilma Peres Costa ...
    Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we? How do we imagine ourselves as a nation? Debates over the origins and meanings of nationalism have emerged at the forefront of the humanities and social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States

    by Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Alexandre Fortes, Thomas D. Rogers, Gillian McGillivray, Larissa Rosa Corrêa, Jerry Dávila, Glaucia Cristina Candian Fraccaro0, Michael M. Hall1, Rebecca Herman2, Barbara Weinstein3 ...
    Workers in Brazil and the United States have followed parallel and entangled histories for many centuries. Recent experiences with progressive, popular presidents and authoritarian, populist presidents in the two most populous countries in the hemisphere have underscored important similarities. The contributors in this volume focus on the comparative and transnational histories of labor between ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Geriatric Audiology

    Edited by Barbara E. Weinstein ...
    Completely revised and updated, Geriatric Audiology, Second Edition is a unique handbook that provides audiologists, speech language pathologists, and doctoral students in audiology with evidence-based, clinical guidance on evaluating and treating hearing loss in older adults. Focusing solely on geriatric audiology, this new edition contains the latest information on the demographics of aging as ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

    Edited by Barbara Hales, Valerie Weinstein ...
    Series Book 24 - Film Europa
    The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish “outsiders” to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to understanding the significant involvement of German Jews in Weimar cinema. Reflecting upon ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • How to Remember Everything

    Tips & Tricks to Become a Memory Master!

    by Jacob Sager Weinstein, Odd Dot ...
    Illustrated by Barbara Malley ...
    Series series
    HOW TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING is the ultimate guide to unlocking the power of your brain!Kids will learn how to ace history tests by memorizing dates, feel confident about remembering people's names, win card games by mastering entire decks, and hang on to happy memories for a lifetime.This invaluable memory guide for children is full of recall-building techniques, fun challenges, and hilarious art. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Blacks of the Land

    Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America

    by James Woodard, Barbara Weinstein, John M. Monteiro ...
    Series Book 112 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made indigenous history a vital part of how scholars understand Brazil's colonial past. Drawing on over ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Black Jurist in a Slave Society

    Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship

    by Keila Grinberg ...
    Translated by Kristin M. McGuire ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg’s compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouças (1798–1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key — and conflicted — role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics. One of the most prominent specialists in civil law of his ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Making of the Middle Class

    Toward a Transnational History

    by A. Ricardo López ...
    Series series Radical perspectives : a radical history review book series
    In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific middle-class formations around the world—in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas—since the mid ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Beyond Slavery

    The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Darién J. Davis ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD