The Other West : Latin America from Invasion to Globalization [1 ed.] 9780520947511, 9780520247987

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The Other West : Latin America from Invasion to Globalization [1 ed.]
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The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the ch

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From advertising to television and film, feminist media scholars have examined the changing nature of media representati

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Analyses and case studies demonstrate how rural Latin Americans have responded creatively to economc crisis.

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This volume of essays examines how the legal systems of the chief countries of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe—Ar

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How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races o

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Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of fiel

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In spite of the attention that Latin American women writers have attracted in recent years, a book dedicated exclusively

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This ambitious work confronts the complex question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, b

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Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his nati

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Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their form

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