Gold, Oil and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities 1612199356, 9781612199351

Science in Latin America: A History 9780292795716

Science in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Azt

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Beyond Commodities: The Growth Challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean [1 ed.] 9781464806599, 9781464806582

Beyond Commodities shows that Latin America and the Caribbean’s growth performance over the last decade cannot be reduce

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New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America 9780300183740

This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America

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A New History of Modern Latin America 9780520963825

A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin Americ

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Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America 9780292748637

Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of str

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Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America 9781501721267

Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behi

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The Contemporary History of Latin America 9780822398318

For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most infl

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Cultures of Confinement : A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America 9780801446306

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Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America 9780231550123

In Things with a History, Héctor Hoyos argues that the roles of objects in recent Latin American fiction offers a way to

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The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America 9780822398578

Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected

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