Latin American Studies: Social Sciences and Law
Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary
1st Edition
Edited
By Darrell B. Lockhart
August 12, 2016
Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first ...
Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities
1st Edition
By David W. Foster
July 21, 2016
This collection, which grew out of a research conference held at Arizona State Universoty in November 1997, examines varieties of Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities. It includes essays by a group of scholars who are engaged in defining the parameters of these identities and who are concerned with...
Observing our Hermanos de Armas: U.S. Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba and Bolivia, 1950-1964
1st Edition
By Robert O. Kirkland
May 13, 2016
This study analyzes the effectiveness of the U.S. military attaché corps in Latin America from the end of World War II to the Johnson administration....
Tomas Gutierrez Alea: The Dialectics of a Filmmaker
1st Edition
By Paul A. Schroeder
February 29, 2016
Schroeder offers a thorough introduction to the films of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba's leading filmmaker, covering all 12 of Alea's feature films and examining in depth his three best films within the context of revolutionary Cuba....
Voices of the Survivors: Testimony, Mourning, and Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (1983-1995)
1st Edition
By Liria Evangelista
February 29, 2016
By blending personal memoir and critical analysis, Voices of the Survivors explores cultural and human responses to the violence of political repression and social disintegration perpetrated in Argentina during the so called Dirty War of the late '70s and early '80s. Central to the theoretical ...
The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman
1st Edition
By Nora Glickman
February 27, 2015
This book recounts the events involving Raquel Liberman, an impoverished immigrant to Argentina that was forced by circumstances into prostitution, and the powerful Zwi Migdal, which controlled the recruitment and deployment of Jewish prostitutes in Argentina while maintaining mutually profitable ...
Borges and the Politics of Form
1st Edition
By Jose Eduardo Gonzalez
December 22, 2014
Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a ...
Latin America's Neo-Reformation: Religion's Influence on Contemporary Politics
1st Edition
By Eric Patterson
September 11, 2014
The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specifically, are there significant contrasts between the political attitudes and behavior of Catholics and Protestants in Latin America?...
Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Network, 1967 -1984
1st Edition
By Vania Markarian
May 01, 2013
This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms and ideas interact with political interests, both global and domestic. It examines joint actions by ...
The Politics of Social Policy Change in Chile and Uruguay: Retrenchment versus Maintenance, 1973-1998
1st Edition
By Rossana Castiglioni Nunez
May 01, 2013
This work explains the causes of social policy reform in Chile and Uruguay in the areas of health care, pensions and education. Until the 1970s, Chile and Uruguay shared striking similarities....
The Politics of Central American Integration
1st Edition
By Rafael A. Sánchez Sánchez
October 10, 2012
Since its inception in the 1960s to the regional negotiations in the 1990s and onwards, Central American integration has been a process characterized by both dramatic advances and setbacks. This book provides a theoretical explanation of this ebb and flow, examining different stages including the ...
Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Andrés Mejía Acosta
September 25, 2012
This book explains how presidents achieve market-oriented reforms in a contentious political environment. Using an impressive amount of quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence, most of which is reported for the first time, Mejía Acosta argues that presidents in Ecuador adopted significant ...