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  • Latin American Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations today

    History, Panorama, Analysis, Causes, Consequences, Future

    Edited by Jose Manuel Ugarte, Bertha Judit Garcia Gallegos ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume discusses civil-military relations in Latin America. Written by regional experts, the chapters take a multifaceted approach, combining a general overview of the situation in the region, a historical analysis of its evolution and its causes, and an in-depth analysis of national cases: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. The case studies examine ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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  • Understanding Brazil - United States Relations

    by Monica Hirst ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    The Brazil-United States relations represent a huge potential, but in recent decades have suffered from lack of communication and understanding between academics and policymakers from both countries. This book goes a long way towards demystifyingthis relationship. Covering from the final decades of the 19th century until the period of the Rousseff and Obama administrations,the work apprehends the ... Read more

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  • Dictatorship in South America

    by Jerry Dávila ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin AmericaExamines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

    by Geo Maher ...
    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cuban Revolution

    by Luis Fernando Ayerbe ...
    For more than fifty years, the revolutionary experience in Cuba was the stage for such re markable personalities as Che Guevara and for dramatic events like the missile crisis. All these 20th century historic icons are interwoven with the deep internal restructuring of the Cuban economy and society, and the related challenge to the United States' prior unopposed hegemony over Latin America. The ... Read more

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  • Venezuela

    Revolution as Spectacle

    Translated by Chaz Bufe ...
    by Rafael Uzcategui ...
    A critical look at the Chavez regime from a leftist Venezuelan perspective, this account debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the regime is antidemocratic and dictatorial. Instead, the book argues that the Chavez government is one of a long line of Latin American populist organizations that have been ultimately subservient to the United States as well as multinational ... Read more

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  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Contemporary Latin America

    1970 to the Present

    by Robert H. Holden, Rina Villars ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
    Contemporary Latin America presents the epochal political, economic, social, and cultural changes in Latin America over the last 40 years and comprehensively examines their impact on life in the region, and beyond.Provides a fresh approach and a new interpretation of the seismic changes of the last 40 years in Latin AmericaIntroduces major themes from a humanistic and universal perspective, ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Counting the Dead

    The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia

    by Winifred Tate ...
    Series Book 18 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Making Peace in Drug Wars

    Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America

    by Benjamin Lessing ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state's monopoly on force. Instead, cartels fought back - with bullets and bribes - driving spirals of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now

    by James D. Cockcroft ...
    Written to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first predominantly anti-capitalist revolution in the world, Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now is the perfect introductory text and one that will also sharpen the understanding of seasoned observers. Cockcroft provides readers with the historical context within which the revolution occurred; explains how the revolutionary process has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Venezuela

    Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy"

    Edited by Miguel Tinker Salas, Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This authoritative book offers a comprehensive assessment of contemporary Venezuela. Analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of Hugo Chávez, leading scholars move beyond his flamboyant style to focus on the concerns of popular social and political movements. The book challenges the misleading notions that for several decades glorified Venezuelan "exceptionalism" and minimized the role of important ... Read more

    $40.99 USD