• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction / Charles Enoch
• 2. Benefits of more global and regional financial integration in Latin America / Luc Eyraud, Diva Singh, Bennett Sutton
• 3. Barriers to integration in banking / Iulia Ruxandra Teodoru
• 4. Barriers to integration in the insurance sector / Alla Myrvoda, Bennett Sutton
• 5. Barriers to integration for pension funds / Alla Myrvoda
• 6. Barriers to integration in capital markets / Alla Myrvoda, Bennett Sutton
• 7. Legal barriers to regional financial integration in Latin America / Laura Lorenzo, Wouter Bossu
• 8. Regional initiatives to achieve financial integration / Charles Enoch, Iulia Ruxandra Teodoru
• 9. Risks and mitigation for financial integration / Mohamed Afzal Norat, Carlos Caceres
• Appendix 1. Brazil
• Appendix 2. Chile
• Appendix 3. Colombia
• Appendix 4. Mexico: financial system overview
• Appendix 5. Panama
• Appendix 6. Peru
• Appendix 7. Uruguay
• Index.

Many factors indicate that now may be the time for Latin American economies to work toward greater regional financial integration. Integration, with appropriate management of the risks, could bring needed diversification to Latin American financial sectors, and set the stage for further integration into the global economy as conditions permit. This book examines the financial landscapes of seven Latin American economies (LA-7): Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay, and makes a case for them to pursue regional financial integration. With growth slowing across much of the region resulting from the end of the commodity super-cycle and economic rebalancing in China, as well as fragmentation of the international banking system, policies to stimulate growth are needed. Chapters set out the benefits to the region of financial integration, the barriers to cross-border activity in banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and capital markets, as well as recommendations to address these barriers. Finally, the authors make the case that regional integration now could be a step toward global integration in the short term.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernity and Its Accidents; Chapter One. Fighting Fire, Fighting Fear; Chapter Two. Science of Regulation; Chapter Three. Controlling the Flames-The Fire Brigade; Chapter Four. Engineering Safety; Chapter Five. Inventing Protection; Chapter Six. Insuring Progress; Chapter Seven. Healing the Hazardous City; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social change, as residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on crisis. City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century.
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• List of Maps
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology of Main Events and Pronunciamientos, 1821-1858
• 1. "Soft" Coups, Occupations, and "Gestures of Rebellion": The Pronunciamiento, Past and Present Interpretations
• 2. The Origins of Mexico's Mimetic Insurrectionism: The Foundational Pronunciamientos of Cabezas de San Juan and Iguala, 1820-1821
• 3. The Voice of the Provinces: The Insurrectional Contagion of Mexico's First Pronunciamientos, 1821-1831
• 4. When the Pronunciamiento Went Viral: The Popularization of the Pronunciamiento, 1832-1842
• 5. From Forceful Negotiation to Civil War: The Pronunciamientos, Coups d'Etat, and Revolutions of the Mid-Nineteenth Century, 1843-1858
• Conclusion: Mimetic Insurrectionism, the Pronunciamiento, and Independent Mexico
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d'etat, these pronunciamientos were actually a complex form of insurrectionary action that relied first on the proclamation and circulation of a plan that listed the petitioners' demands and then on endorsement by copycat pronunciamientos that forced the authorities, be they national or regional, to the negotiating table. In Independent Mexico, Will Fowler provides a comprehensive overview of the pronunciamiento practice following the Plan of Iguala. This fourth and final installment in, and culmination of, a larger exploration of the pronunciamiento highlights the extent to which this model of political contestation evolved. The result of more than three decades of pronunciamiento politics was the bloody Civil War of the Reforma (1858-60) and the ensuing French Intervention (1862-67). Given the frequency and importance of the pronunciamiento, this book is also a concise political history of independent Mexico.
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• Ancient Maya urbanism in the Eastern Lowlands
• Studying Maya cities
• The setting in space and time
• Preclassic foundations
• Southern Belize
• Vaca Plateau and Maya Mountains
• Belize Valley
• Northwestern Belize
• Northern Belize
• Comparisons and urban planning
• Deciphering meaning in Maya cities.

For more than a century researchers have studied Maya ruins, and sites like Tikal, Palenque, Copan, and Chichen Itza have shaped our understanding of the Maya. Yet the lowlands of Belize, which were once home to a rich urban tradition that persisted and evolved for almost 2,000 years, are treated as peripheral to these great Classic period sites. The hot and humid climate and dense forests are inhospitable and make preservation of the ruins difficult, but this oft-ignored area reveals much about Maya urbanism and culture. Using data collected from different sites throughout the Maya lowlands, including the Vaca Plateau and the Belize River Valley, Brett Houk presents the first synthesis of these unique monuments and discusses methods for mapping and excavating. Considering the sites through the theoretical lenses of the built environmentand ancient urban planning, Houk vividly reconstructs their political history, how they fit into the larger political landscape of the Classic Maya, and how the ancient cities fell apart over time.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: A History of Place and Nation PART ONE. Landscapes of Opportunity
• 1. Dictatorship's Blocks: The Battle for the New Urban Venezuela
• 2. Democracy's Projects: Occupying the Spaces of Revolution PART TWO. Paths to Democracy
• 3. From Ballots to Bullets: The Rise of Urban Insurgency, 1958--1963
• 4. "The Fight Was Fierce": Uncertain Victories in the Streets and the Polls, 1963--1969 PART THREE. Streets of Protest
• 5. Water, Women, and Protest: The Return of Local Activism, 1969--1977
• 6. "A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote": Seizing the Promise of Participation, 1979--1988
• 7. Killing Democracy's Promise: A Massacre of People and Expectations Conclusion: Revolutionary Projects Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America's most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion. Based on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela's largest public housing community, Barrio Rising delivers the first in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution, providing crucial context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chavez. In the mid-1950s, a military government bent on modernizing Venezuela razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). During the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, and official neglect, inhabitants of el veintitres learned to use their strategic location and symbolic tie to the promise of democracy in order to demand a better life. Granting legitimacy to the state through the vote but protesting its failings with violent street actions when necessary, they laid the foundation for an expansive understanding of democracy both radical and electoral whose features still resonate today. Blending rich narrative accounts with incisive analyses of urban space, politics, and everyday life, Barrio Rising offers a sweeping reinterpretation of modern Venezuelan history as seen not by its leaders but by residents of one of the country's most distinctive popular neighborhoods.
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• Preface: On the study of drug trafficking and organized crime networks in Latin America and the Caribbean in the twenty-first century
• Introduction. drug trafficking and organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean in the twenty-first century: challenges to democracy / Bruce M. Bagley
• U.S. drug policies at home and abroad
• Coca, cocaine, and consumption: trends and antitrends / J. Bryan Page
• Illegal drugs as a national security threat: securitization of drugs in the U.S. official discourse / Yulia Vorobyeva
• The war on drugs and the role of southcom / Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
• Mission creep: the U.S. military's counterdrug role in the Americas / Adam Isacson
• Security challenges at the U.S.-Mexican border: understanding the security threats to state and local governments / Rocío A. Rivera Barradas
• Drug-control policies in the United States: patterns, prevalence, and problems of drug use in the United States / Bruce M. Bagley
• Drug trafficking and organized crime: country and regional analyses
• Colombia
• Colombia and its wars against drug trafficking, 1970-2010 / Elvira María Restrepo
• Illicit drugs in the Colombia-U.S. relationship: review and prospects / Arlene B. Tickner and Carolina Cepeda
• Escalating heroin consumption and the spread of HIV in Colombia: an emerging public health threat / Clyde McCoy, Daniel H. Ciccarone, Zelde Espinel Ben-Amy, Jeanene McCoy Bengoa, Oscar Bernal, Duane C. McBride, and James M. Shultz
• Bolivia
• Bolivian drug policy under the Morales Administration / Marten W. Brienen
• Peru
• The vicious cycle: the resurgence of drug production and drug trafficking in Peru / Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen
• Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
• In search of the Mrida initiative: from antecedents to practical results / Alberto Lozano-Vázquez and Jorge Rebolledo Flores
• Police reform in Mexico: a never-ending story / Sigrid Arzt
• Democracy, security, and organized crime in Central America / Francisco Rojas Aravena
• Seeking out the state: organized crime, violence, and statetropism in the Caribbean / Lilian Bobea
• Brazil
• The power of organized crime in Brazil: from public and social challenges to the effectiveness of reforms / Marcelo Rocha and Silva Zorovich
• Argentina
• Under (loose) control: drug trafficking in Argentina in times of paradigm change / Khatchik Derghougassian and Glen Evans
• Regional and international drug-control policies
• The role of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission: confronting the problem of illegal drugs in the Americas / Betty Horwitz
• The strategies of the European Union against drug trafficking / Roberto Domínguez
• Analytical conclusions: the search for alternative drug policies in the Western Hemisphere / Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen.

In 1971, Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Despite foreign policy efforts and attempts to combat supply lines, the United States has been for decades, and remains today, the largest single consumer market for illicit drugs on the planet. In this volume, Bruce Bagley and Jonathan Rosen illustrate that the war on drugs has been ineffective at best and, at worst, has been highly detrimental to countries throughout the region. They present a clear picture of drug trafficking and its role in organized crime while discussing the major trends of the war on drugs in the twentyfirst century, as well as its future. With this comprehensive overview, Bagley and Rosen develop a framework for understanding the limits and liabilities in the U.S.-championed war on drugs throughout the Americas.
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• List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1. A Portuguese Town in Rio de la Plata
• 2. Departing without Leaving: Luso-Brazilians under the Viceroyalty
• 3. Transimperial Cooperation: Commerce and War in the South Atlantic
• 4. The Making of Montevideo: Contraband, Reforms, and Authority
• 5. Changing Toponymy and the Emergence of the Banda Oriental
• 6. Traversing Empires: The Atlantic Life of Don Manuel Cipriano de Melo
• 7. Postponing the Revolution: Transimperial Commerce and Monarchism in the Banda Oriental Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo's autonomist projects. These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.
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• Introduction: An attempt to grasp the moment / Jeffrey D. Needell
• Part I: Brazil, today and yesterday
• The country of the present, or, leaving the future in the past / Marshall Eakin
• Brazilian spring or Brazilian autumn? First impressions of the June days of 2013 / Fernando Lattman-Weltman
• Part II: Brazil's political scene
• Understanding the increasing popularity of Brazilian presidents / Daniela Campello and Cesar Zucco Jr
• Too soon to give up, too late to really matter: impasses, self-deception, and Brazil's media-democratization agenda / Fernando Lattman-Weltman
• Part III: Brazil's urban scene
• Crime victimization in Brazil,
• 2009: risks by race, class, and place / Charles H. Wood and Ludmila Ribeiro
• Pacification urbanism: a view from Rio's old industrial suburbs / Mariana Cavalcanti
• Popular culture in emergent Brazil / Bryan McCann
• Part IV: Brazilian religions and the world
• Neo-Pentecostals on the pitch: Brazilian football players as missionaries abroad / Carmen Rial
• The global spread of Brazilian religions / Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez
• Part V: Brazilian forest and field to the world
• Biofuels: energy for the world / Roberto Rodrigues
• Agribusiness and sustainability of the orange juice and sugar and ethanol industries of Sao Paulo and Florida / James A. Sterns, Thomas H. Spreen, and Paula M. Mercadante
• Environmental governance and technological innovations for sustainable development in the Amazon / Judson F. Valentim
• Emergent socio-environmental development in Amazonia / Marianne Schmink
• Part VI: Brazil's new diplomatic role in the world
• Brazil: an emerging nuclear power / Carlo Patti
• The strange case of the missing relationship: Brazil and the United States / Peter Hakim.

For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has for the last twenty years been one of the world's largest economies. But its promise has too often been curtailed by dictatorship, racism, poverty, and violence. Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the critical issues facing Brazil, the contributors to this volume analyze the democratization of the country's media, its potentiality as a nuclear power, the spread of neo-Protestantism, the development of popular culture, the global impact of Brazilian agribusiness, and the implementation of sustainable economic development, especially in the Amazon. Grouped with Russia, India, China, and South Africa (the other socalled BRICS countries) as one of the world's emerging economies, Brazil is unique in the Western hemisphere and on the global stage. The wide-ranging contributors also examine the exportation of Brazilian trends, institutions, culture, and religion through the accelerating processes of globalization. Emergent Brazil is a comprehensive and timely collection of essays that explore major Brazilian domestic concerns from the country's turbulent history to its restless present.
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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Closing the Colonial Past2. Nineteenth-Century Invasions and Influences3. Inception, Institutionalization, and Venue4. The BME during the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution5. Mestizaje, Musical Pedagogy, and the Socialist State6. Municipal Control to Innes's Reign7. From Political Proselytizer to Economic EngineConclusion: Gauging the Political Tool
• Appendix 1. BME Directors
• Appendix 2. Oaxaca Military and National Guard Units, 1846 and 1848
• Appendix 3. BME Dependencies
• Appendix 4. Extraordinary Performances, 1966 (Partial)NotesGlossary of Song and Dance FormsBibliographyIndex.
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In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Musica del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state. In The Inevitable Bandstand, Charles V. Heath examines the BME's role as a part of popular political culture that the state of Oaxaca has deployed in an attempt to bring unity and order to its domain. The BME has always served multiple functions: it arose from musical groups that accompanied military forces as they trained and fought; today it performs at village patron saint days and at Mexico's patriotic celebrations, propagating religions both sacred and civic; it offers education in the ways of liberal democracy to its population, once largely illiterate; and finally, it provides respite from the burdens of life by performing at strictly diversionary functions such as serenades and Sunday matinees. In each of these government-sanctioned roles, the BME serves to unify, educate, and entertain the diverse and fragmented elements within the state of Oaxaca, thereby mirroring the historical trajectory of the state of Oaxaca and the nation of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic and Spanish colonial eras to the nascent Mexican republic, from a militarized and fractured young nation to a consolidated postrevolutionary socialist state, and from a predominantly Catholic entity to an ostensibly secular one.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• 1. Consuming (Post)Colonial Culture: Multicultural Experiences in Travelogues and Ethnic Novels;
• 2. Revising the Colonialism-as-Romance Metaphor: From Conquest to Neocolonialis;
• 3. Bastards of U.S. Imperialism: Demanding Recognition in the American Family;
• 4. Performing Genealogies: Poetic Pedagogies of Disidentification; Conclusion: Imagining the End of Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

When the United States acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico, it reconciled its status as an empire with its anticolonial roots by claiming that it would altruistically establish democratic institutions in its new colonies. Ever since, Filipino and Puerto Rican artists have challenged promises of benevolent assimilation and portray U.S. imperialism as both self-interested and unexceptional among empires. Faye Caronan's examination interprets the pivotal engagement of novels, films, performance poetry, and other cultural productions as both symptoms of and resistance against American military, social, economic, and political incursions. Though the Philippines became an independent nation and Puerto Rico a U.S. commonwealth, both remain subordinate to the United States. Caronan's juxtaposition reveals two different yet simultaneous models of U.S. neocolonial power and contradicts American exceptionalism as a reluctant empire that only accepts colonies for the benefit of the colonized and global welfare. Her analysis, meanwhile, demonstrates how popular culture allows for alternative narratives of U.S. imperialism, but also functions to contain those alternatives.
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• Acknowledgements;
• Chapter 1. Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America; Comparative and interdisciplinary contexts; Literature and politics in divided Germany; Material and rhetorical contexts for imagining Latin America; Theoretical contexts: the emergence of Cold War transnationalisms, postcolonial studies, and area studies; Imagining the Third World in German cultural studies; Verdichtung and the emergence of aesthetic solidarity.

• Chapter 2. The Translator's Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana InquiryCharting a new course for literature; Common places; The Habana Inquiry; Translating genre: testimonio in conversation with a resurgent documentarism; Counterrevolutionary zones of equivalence; Refusing to translate; Translating cultural concepts; Translating discursive systems; Translation and comparison; Conclusions;
• Chapter 3. Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun's Guevara or the Sun State.

• State solidarity and humanist patrimonyExpressionist redux: the New Man and the production of socialism in Volker Braun; Productive contradictions with Latin American Marxisms; Transcontextual interruptions; Unforgettable guerrillera; Authoring the New Man; Conclusions;
• Chapter 4. The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner M©ơller's The Task; The theaterbody and its subjects; Latin America and the Caribbean at the intersection of revolutionary histories; Commentary and relational reading; The Second World intellectual and writing from the middle.

• Chapter 5. A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius's AdenauerplatzA new political realism?; From trope to rhetoric, from internationalist to transnational antifascist solidarities; "Hinter dem Faschismus steckt das Kapital ... "; Transnational walking around and the globalization of fascist memories; Solidary sentiments; Conclusions;
• Chapter 6. The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity; Aesthetics, solidarity, and the political; Limits; Appendix. "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh; Archival Collections; Works Cited; Index.

Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyzed body of German literature concerned with Latin American thought and action. It shows how literary interest in Latin America was vital for understanding oppositional agency and engaged literature in East and West Germany, where authors developed aesthetic solidarities that anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global. Through a combination of close readings, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Revolutionary Subjects traces the historicity and contingency of aesthetic practices, as well as the geocultural grounds against which they unfolded, in case studies of Volker Braun, F.C. Delius, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Heiner Muller. The book's cultural and comparative approach offers an antidote to imprecise engagements with the transnational, historicizing critical impulses that accompany the production of disciplinary boundaries. It paves the way for more reflexive debate on the content and method of German Studies as part of a broader landscape of world literature, comparative literature and Latin American Studies.
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• Introduction : the sacred mantle of the constitution of 1812 / Scott Eastman
• The medieval roots of Spanish constitutionalism / Brian Hamnett
• The emancipation process in New Spain and the Cadiz constitution : new historiographical paths regarding the revoluciones hispanicas / Roberto Brena
• Central America and Cadiz : a complex relationship / Jordana Dym
• Race, citizenship, and the Cadiz constitution in Popayan (New Granada) / Marcela Echeverri
• Loyalism and liberalism in Peru, 1810-1824 / Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
• The impact of Hispanic constitutionalism in the Rio de la Plata / Marcela Ternavasio
• Of exceptions and afterlives : the long history of the 1812 constitution in Cuba / David Sartorius
• Atlantic constitutionalism and the ideology of slavery : the Cadiz experience in comparative perspective / Rafael Marquese and Tamis Parron
• The Cadiz constitution in Cuba and Florida / M.C. Mirow
• Y para las damas, que? : liberalism, nationalism, and gender in the Hispanic world / Reuben Zahler
• Cadiz reprised : the liberal triennium in Spain and Spanish America, 1820-1823 / Gregorio Alonso
• Epilogue / Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea.

"In March 1812, while Napoleon's brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and adopted the first liberal constitution in the Hispanic world, a document that became known as the Cádiz Constitution of 1812. The 1812 Constitution was extremely influential in and beyond Europe, and this collection of essays explores how its enduring legacy not only shaped the history of state-building, elections, and municipal governance in Iberian America, but also affected national identities and citizenship as well as the development of race and gender in the region. A bold blueprint for governing a global, heterogeneous monarchy, the Constitution represented a rupture with Spain's Antiguo Regimen (Old Regime) in numerous ways-in the limits it placed on the previously autocratic Bourbon monarchs, in the admission to its governing bodies of deputies from Spain's American viceroyalties as equals, and in its framers' vociferous debate over the status of castas (those of mixed ancestry) and slaves. The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World covers these issues and adopts a transatlantic perspective that recovers the voices of those who created a vibrant political culture accessible to commoners and elite alike. The bicentenary of the Constitution of 1812 offered scholars an excellent moment to reexamine the form and role of constitutions across the Spanish-speaking world. Constitutionalism remains a topic of intense debate in Latin America, while contemporary Spain itself continues to seek ways to balance a strong central government with centripetal forces in its regions, notably the Basque and Catalan provinces. The multifaceted essays compiled here by Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea both shed new light on the early, liberal Hispanic societies and show how the legacies of those societies shape modern Spain and Latin America"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I. Theory and method
• The Caribbean defined and the scope of archaeology
• Method and theory
• Colonial settlement and emergent capitalism
• Part II. Archaeology
• Nevis history, 1627-1833
• An archaeology of plantation industrialization
• Decline and adjustment, 1782-1833
• Part III. Synthesis and conclusions
• Environmental change in capitalism's shadow.

In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century "Atlantic Economy, " comprising early capitalist sugar production, the African slave trade, and European settlement. Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation is based on twelve seasons of meticulous archaeological field work and documentary research. Although Nevis was once a bustling hub of the British colonial project, the emigration of emancipated slaves and abandonment by European planters left large swathes of Nevis vacant. Reclaimed by forests and undisturbed by later waves of economic development, the island-dotted with fascinating ruins, debris from the sugar industry, windmills, chimneys, and multistoried great house-provided Meniketti with an ideal subject for archaeological inquiry. Through intensive archaeological and landscape surveys of multiple key plantation sites, Meniketti traces the development of Nevis from its initial European settlement in 1627 to its central role as a British mercantile hub and a laboratory and prototype of capitalist sugar cultivation. His nuanced analysis explains the backdrop of European political and economic rivalries, of which the colonial agro-industrial enterprises were the physical manifestations, and makes telling comparisons with Dutch and French archaeological sites. The work also compares and contrasts the adoption of capitalist modes of sugar production and socialization at wealthy and middling plantation sites. Supported with a wealth of photos, tables, and maps, Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation offers a vital case study of one island whose environment and archaeological record illuminates the complex webs of Atlantic history.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Emergencies
• 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942--1947
• 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency
• 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949--1959 Part Two: Love and Longing
• 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942--1964
• 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957--1964
• 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love Part Three: Decisive Measures
• 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias(Intermediary Women), 1958--1964
• 8. Ejemplar y sin Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942--1964
• 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947--1964 Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically Notes Bibliography Index.
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Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espiritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.
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• A "Guinea Voyage" Gone Wrong : From Africa to Costa Rica, 1708-1710
• Stolen from Their Countries : The Origins of Africans in Costa Rica
• Middle Passages : The Slave Trade to Costa Rica
• Becoming Slaves in Costa Rica
• Work and the Shaping of Slave Life
• Slave Resistance
• More than Slaves : Family and Freedom
• Conclusions
• Epilogue
• Glossary
• Appendix One: Some Fugitive Slaves of Costa Rican Masters, 1612-1746
• Appendix Two: Slave Marriages, 1670-1750.

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the Christianus Quintus and Fredericus Quartus, the author examines slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica. Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded to their condition.
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• From missions to towns : Amazonian settlements in an era of reform
• Forest collecting expeditions and the pursuit of opportunities in the sertão
• Searching for new people
• "The Indians of this town ebb and flow" : absentee movements within the colonial sphere
• Defining Indians and vagrants
• The struggle for autonomy in the early nineteenth century
• Conclusion : mobile and rooted.

This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, native Amazonians used traditional as well as new, colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constraints of Portuguese colonialism. Canoeing and trekking through the interior to collect forest products or to contact independent native groups, Indians expanded their social networks, found economic opportunities, and brought new people and resources back to the colonial villages. When they were not participating in these state-sponsored expeditions, many Indians migrated between colonial settlements, seeking to be incorporated as productive members of their chosen communities. Drawing on largely untapped village-level sources, the book shows that mobile people remained attached to their home communities and committed to the preservation of their lands and assets. This argument still matters today, and not just to scholars, as rural communities in the Brazilian Amazon find themselves threatened by powerful outsiders who argue that their mobility invalidates their claims to territory.
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• The machete and the freighter
• Monte
• Making the Panama Canal Watershed
• Frank Robinson's map
• Life along the river (Miocene-1903)
• Hydropolitics, territory, and canal construction
• Pueblos perdidos or how the lake ate the river
• Banana republic? The agricultural possibilities of the Canal Zone
• Getting across and getting around
• The highway : the world united, Panama divided
• Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure
• Weeds
• A demanding environment.

A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal. In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, he explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities. Carse draws on a wide range of ethnographic and archival material to show the social and ecological implications of transportation across Panama. The Canal moves ships over an aquatic staircase of locks that demand an enormous amount of fresh water from the surrounding region. Each passing ship drains 52 million gallons out to sea-a volume comparable to the daily water use of half a million Panamanians. Infrastructures like the Panama Canal, Carse argues, do not simply conquer nature; they rework ecologies in ways that serve specific political and economic priorities. Interweaving histories that range from the depopulation of the U.S. Canal Zone a century ago to road construction conflicts and water hyacinth invasions in canal waters, the book illuminates the human and nonhuman actors that have come together at the margins of the famous trade route. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal. Beyond the Big Ditch calls us to consider how infrastructures are materially embedded in place, producing environments with winners and losers.
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• Small and "democratic"? The official propaganda institution
• Stars appearing in the sky: unconventional propaganda films
• Beware! More propaganda
• Getting into their heads: propagandists' intentions
• The end of the story: propaganda reception.

In Brazilian Propaganda, Nina Schneider examines the various modes of official, and unofficial, propaganda used by an authoritarian regime. Such propaganda is commonly believed to be political, praising military figures and openly legitimizing state repression. However, Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-1985) launched seemingly apolitical official campaigns that were aesthetically appealing and ostensibly aimed to "enlighten" and "civilize." Some were produced as civilian-military collaborations and others were conducted by privately owned media, but undergirding them all was the theme of a country aspiring to become a developed nation. Focusing primarily on visual media, Schneider demonstrates how many short films of the period portrayed a society free from class and racial conflicts. These films espoused civic-mindedness while attempting to distract from atrocities perpetuated by the regime. Mining a rich trove of materials from the National Archives in Rio and conducting interviews with key propagandists, Schneider demonstrates the ambiguities of twentieth-century Brazilian propa-ganda. She also challenges the notion of a homogeneous military regime in Brazil, highlighting its fractures and competing forces. By analysing the strategy, production, mechanisms, and meaning of these films and reconstructing their effects, she provides an alternative interpretation of the propagandists' intentions and a new framework for understanding this era in Brazil's history.
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• Introduction : continuity despite change
• Explaining enduring labor codes in developing countries : skill distributions and the organizational capacity of labor
• Using multiple methods to understand labor law development in Latin America
• Latin American labor laws in comparative perspective
• Fragmented individualism : "professional" labor regulation in Chile
• Contradictions, divisions, and competition : "encompassing" labor regulation in Peru
• Integration and incorporation : "corporatist" labor regulation in Argentina.

As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change develops a new theoretical framework for understanding labor laws and their change through time, beginning by conceptualizing labor laws as comprehensive systems or "regimes." In this context, Matthew Carnes demonstrates that the reform measures introduced in the 1980s and 1990s have only marginally modified the labor laws from decades earlier. To explain this continuity, he argues that labor law development is constrained by long-term economic conditions and labor market institutions. He points specifically to two key factors-the distribution of worker skill levels and the organizational capacity of workers. Carnes presents cross-national statistical evidence from the eighteen major Latin American economies to show that the theory holds for the decades from the 1980s to the 2000s, a period in which many countries grappled with proposed changes to their labor laws. He then offers theoretically grounded narratives to explain the different labor law configurations and reform paths of Chile, Peru, and Argentina. His findings push for a rethinking of the impact of globalization on labor regulation, as economic and political institutions governing labor have proven to be more resilient than earlier studies have suggested.
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• Community
• Nationalism
• Revolution
• Preservation
• Persistence
• Martí
• Crisis
• War
• Legacy.

Gerald Poyo provides a comprehensive account of how his great-great-grandfather spurred the working-class community of Key West to transform from supporting cast to critical actors in the struggle for Cuban independence. The book reveals the depth of Cuba's long-time ties to Florida, the cigar industry, and its workers; the experience of Cubans in the American South; and the diplomatic intrigues involving Spain, Cuba, and the United States.
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• Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Guianas- Prehistory-1667 Chapter Three: Guianas 1667-1814 Chapter Four: British Guiana 1814-1914
• Chapter 5: Five French Guiana 1814-1914 Chapter Six: Dutch Guiana 1814-1914 Chapter Seven: Guianas 1914-1950 Chapter Eight: Guyana 1950-Present Chapter Nine: French Guiana 1950-Present Chapter Ten: Suriname 1950-Present Chapter Eleven: Conclusion.
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This text is the first in many years to address the histories and cultures of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana in a single regional volume, exploring their colorful pasts and explaining the vast cultural differences among the three. Students of Caribbean history, Latin American history, colonialism and imperialism, and the history of slavery will find a collection of useful information on the region that has not been assembled to this degree in any other text currently available.
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• Front Cover; Front Flip; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Author's Note; Family Tree; Prologue; Part I: Cuba;
• 1. Havana: A City of Sea and Light;
• 2. Mercedes and Mamita;
• 3. Joaquín;
• 4. Behind the Convent Walls;
• 5. Adios, Cuba; Part II: Spain;
• 6. Madrid: Grandeur and Decay;
• 7. A Sense of Loss;
• 8. Treason, Hatred, Vengeance;
• 9. The Good Devils;
• 10. Adios, España; Part III: France;
• 11. Starting Over;
• 12. The Rise of La Belle Créole;
• 13. Romancing the Past;
• 14. The Literary Socialite; Part IV: Cuba, Spain, and France;
• 15. Daughter of Havana;
• 16. A Song for Havana.

• 17. Finale: Adagio CantabileAcknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Flip; Back Cover.

The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born aristocrat who was years ahead of her time as a writer, a socialite, a salon host, and a participant in the Cuban slavery debate. Raised in Cuba and shipped off to live with her socialite mother in Spain at the age of 13, Merce.

• Introduction / Takeshi Inomata
• Part I. Artifacts, ecological studies, and conservation
• Figurines / Daniela Triadan
• Worked sherds and other ceramic artifacts / Takeshi Inomata
• Spindle whorls / Takeshi Inomata
• Grinding stones and related artifacts / Takeshi Inomata
• Stone ornaments and other stone artifacts / Takeshi Inomata and Markus Eberl
• Ceramic laminates / Harriet F. Beaubien
• Bone and shell artifacts / Takeshi Inomata and Kitty Emery
• Aguateca animal remains / Kitty Emery
• Food, farming, and forest management practices of the late classic Maya at Aguateca / David L. Lentz, Brian Lane, and Kim Thompson
• Artifact conservation / Harriet F. Beaubien
• Part II. Monuments and hieroglyphic texts
• Monuments / Stephen D. Houston
• Miscellaneous texts / Stephen D. Houston
• Part III. Synthesis and conclusions
• Synthesis of data from the rapidly abandoned buildings / Takeshi Inomata
• Conclusions / Takeshi Inomata.

Aguateca is a Classic Mayan site located in the Petexbatun region of Guatemala. It was unexpectedly attacked around AD 810, its central area was burned, and its residents fled or were taken captive. In this volume, Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, and their team examine the life of the Mayan royal family, nobles, and their retainers through the analysis of numerous complete and reconstructible artifacts left in the site's elite residential area. Because of the surprise nature of the attack, most artifacts were left in their original locations, providing unprecedented views of the daily life of the Classic Maya. Detailed analyses of these objects and their distribution has shown that Mayan elites stored some of their food in their residences and that they also conducted various administrative duties there. The presence of numerous precious ornaments indicates that many of the Maya elite were also skilled craft producers. Life and Politics at the Royal Court of Aguateca is the third and final volume of the monograph series on Aguateca. It presents the analyses of items not covered in the first two volumes, including figurines, ceramic laminates and masks, spindle whorls, ground stone, and bone artifacts, as well as hieroglyphic texts and plant and animal remains. It discusses the broad implications of this remarkable data set and provides a summation of the project.
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• pt. I. Capital flows and Dutch disease: Worrying about Currency Appreciation? The missing link between Dutch disease and growth
• pt. II. Assessing reserve adequacy and current account levels: international reserve adequacy in Central America, Estimating current account norms in Latin American emerging markets, a quantile regression approach
• pt. III. The role of macroprudential policies and exchange rate regimes: Brazil's experience in managing capital Inflows, the role of capital controls, The impact of external developments on emerging market and developing economies, the role of exchange rate flexibility
• pt. IV. Fiscal policy: Public debt targeting, an application to Caribbean countries
• pt. V. Monetary policy and dedollarization: What is driving financial dedollarization in Latin America? Interest rate and exchange rate channels in dollarized and non-dollarized economies.

How has Latin America coped with external shocks and economic vulnerabilities in the aftermath of the global financial crisis? Managing Economic Volatility in Latin America looks at how the region has fared in recent years in an environment of uncertainty. It presents a collection of novel contributions on capital flows, terms of trade, and macroeconomic policy in Latin America. The rigorous expert analysis offers an up-to-date guide to many of the key economic policy questions in the region. Chapters focus on important analytical issues, including assessing reserves adequacy and current account levels. The roles of macroeconomic policies and exchange rates regimes in coping with large capital inflows are examined, as well as the effectiveness of both monetary policy and fiscal policy in dealing with economic challenges in the region.

• Introduction : recovering Brazil's indigenous pasts / Hal Langfur
• The Society of Jesus and the first aldeias of Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf
• Land and economic resources of indigenous aldeias in Rio de Janeiro : conflicts and negotiations, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Maria Regina Celestino de Almeida
• Colonial intrusions and the transformation of native society in the Amazon Valley, 1500-1800 / Neil L. Whitehead
• The Amazonian native nobility in late-colonial Pará / Barbara A. Sommer
• Indian autonomy and slavery in the forests and towns of colonial Minas Gerais / Hal Langfur and Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende
• Catechism and capitalism : imperial indigenous policy on a Brazilian frontier, 1808-1845 / Judy Bieber
• Catechism and captivity : Indian policy in Goiás, 1780-1889 / Mary Karasch
• Indigenous resistance in central Brazil, 1770-1890 / Mary Karasch and David McCreery.

This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.

• Introduction
• 1. A new model or extractive imperialism?
• 2. Argentina: Extractivist dynamics of soya production and open-pit mining - Norma Giarracca and Miguel Teubal
• 3. Bolivia: Between voluntarist developmentalism and pragmatic extractivism - Henry Veltmeyer
• 4. Colombia: The mining boom: a catalyst of development or resistance? - Kyla Sankey
• 5. Ecuador: Extractivist dynamics, politics and discourse - Pablo Davalos and Veronica Albuja
• 6. Mexico: The political ecology of mining - Darcy Victor Tetreault
• 7. Peru: Mining capital and social resistance - Jan Lust
• 8. Theses on extractive imperialism and the post-neoliberal state.
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In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social and environmental costs, not to mention mass resistance from the people negatively affected by it. With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development in a region where the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities. It calls for us to understand the new extractivism not as a viable development model for the post-neoliberal world, but as the dangerous emergence of a new form of imperialism.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword
• CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION. THE CRISSCROSSED PAST
• CHAPTER 2. MAX UHLE AND (THE WESTERN) FOUNDATION OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN PERU
• CHAPTER 3. JULIO C. TELLO: ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM IN LEGUIA'S DICTATORSHIP
• CHAPTER 4. LUIS E. VALCARCEL: THE CUSCO PERIOD AND THE MOVE TO LIMA
• CHAPTER 5. U.S INFLUENCE IN THE 1940s AND 1950s: RAFAEL LARCO AND THE VIRU PROJECT
• CHAPTER 6. JOHN H. ROWE AND THE "NEW" HORIZONS
• CHAPTER 7. JOHN V. MURRA: ETHNOHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE 1960S AND 1970S
• CHAPTER 8. EMILIO CHOY, LUIS G. LUMBRERAS AND ARCHEOLOGY AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE
• CHAPTER 9. PROCESSUALIST ARCHAEOLOGY IN PERU: EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT
• CHAPTER 10. ARCHAEOLOGY IN PERU OF THE 90S: A VIEW FROM THE CAPITAL
• CHAPTER 11. PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY: CRISIS AND RISINGS
• CHAPTER 12. FINAL COMMENTS: NEW HORIZONS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY IN PERU.
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This book offers a unique, critical perspective on the history of Peruvian archaeology by a native scholar. Leading Peruvian archaeologist Henry Tantalean illuminates the cultural legacy of colonialism beginning with "founding father" Max Uhle and traces key developments to the present. These include the growth of Peruvian institutions; major figures from Tello and Valcarcel to Larco, Rowe, and Murra; war, political upheaval, and Peruvian regimes; developments in archaeological and social science theory as they impacted Andean archaeology; and modern concerns such as heritage, neoliberalism, and privatization. This post-colonial perspective on research and its sociopolitical context is an essential contribution to Andean archaeology and the growing international dialogue on the history of archaeology.
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• Introduction : imperial spoilers
• Origin time
• The last empire
• Unruly behavior at the water's edge
• The outsider
• The invaders
• The unreformed
• The resistance
• The ax
• Conclusion : the death of a fakir and the agony of old Tabasco.

The River People in Flood Time tells the astonishing story of how the people of nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico, overcame impossible odds to expel foreign interventions. Tabascans resisted control by Mexico City, overcame the grip of a Cuban adventurer who seized the region for two years, turned back the United States Navy, and defeated the French Intervention of the early 1860s, thus remaining free territory while the rest of the nation struggled for four painful years under the imposed monarchy of Maximilian. With colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches, this deeply researched and masterfully written history reconstructs the lives and culture of the Tabascans, as well as their pre-Columbian and colonial past. Rugeley reveals how over the centuries, one colorful character after another sets foot on the Tabascan stage, only to be undone by climate, disease, and more than anything else, tenacious Tabascan resistance. Virtually the only English-language study of this little-known province, River People in Flood Time explores the ways in which geography, climate, and social relationships contributed to an extraordinarily successful defense against unwelcome meddling from the outside world. River People in Flood Time demonstrates the complex relationship between imperial forces in relation to remote parts of Latin America, and the way that resistance to external pressure helped mold the thoughts, attitudes, and actions of those remote peoples. Nineteenth-century Mexico was more a land of localities than a unified nation, and Rugeley's narrative paints an indelible portrait of one of its least known and most unique provinces.
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• Part I. Coming to Voice on Screen : Minors and the Struggle for Agency. Chapter 1. Can Children Speak in Film? Children's Subjectivity in Mutum (2007) and O contador de histórias (2009) / Carolina Rocha ; Chapter 2. From the Child Who Dies to the Adolescent Who Kills : Children's Perception and Melancholy in La ciénaga and La rabia / Sophie Dufays ; Chapter 3. Scribbles from a Little Girl : Violence and The Politics of Girlhood in Albertina Carri's Géminis and La rabia / Alejandra Josiowicz
• Part II. Children and Family Dynamics. Chapter 4. "Yo no soy invisible" : Imaginative Agency in Las malas intenciones / Sarah Thomas ; Chapter 5. Playing Woman in María Novaro's Lola / Amanda Holmes ; Chapter 6. "Be a Man!" : Masculinities and Class Privileges in Post-Coup Chilean Cinema / Walescka Pino-Ojeda, translated by Camilo Díaz Pino
• Part III. Mobile Youth : Migration, Poverty and Violence. Chapter 7. Subjectivities in the Making : Tales of Transformation in Recent Central American Cinema / Hólmfríơur Garơarsdóttir ; Chapter 8. Bordering Adolescence : Latin American Youth in Road Films La misma luna and Sin nombre / Laura Senio-Blair ; Chapter 9. Embodying Childhood Social Agency in Gustavo Loza's Al otro lado (2004) / Juli A. Kroll ; Chapter 10. Adolescent Subjectivity and Sexual Violence in Marisa Sistach's Perfume de violetas (Nadie te oye) and La niña en la piedra (Nadie te ve) Traci Roberts-Camps
• Part IV. Minors' Subjectivity in Focus : Documentary and Neorealist Cinema. Chapter 11. The Advent of Child-Centric Perspectives in Brazil's Urban-Realist Cinema : Building on Feminist Representations of Outlaw Emotions in Drama and Documentary / Jack A. Draper III ; Chapter 12. Agency, performance and Social Recognition in Priscila Padillas La eterna noche de las doce lunas / Rachel Randall.

Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first volume to delve into the construction of children's subjectivity and agency in Latin American film, and addresses such questions as: How and to what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How do plots and film practices represent children's subjectivity and agency? Childhood studies has demonstrated the importance of examining the lives of children. Building on those insights, together with current research from film studies and Latin American cultural studies, the essays in this volume analyze the development of agency and voices of minors in contemporary Latin American film. The theoretical perspectives used-gender studies, psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, film studies, play and performance studies, and emotion studies, among others-take into account innovative approaches to filmic techniques as they explore the varied representations of children.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Seen and Heard in Revolutionary Mexico
• 1. Constructing Citizens: Adult-Produced Science, Space, Symbolism, and Rhetoric for the Revolutionary Child
• 2. Pulgarcito and Popocatepetl: Children's Art Curriculum and the Creation of a National Aesthetic
• 3. A Community of Invisible Little Friends: Technology and Power in Children's Radio Programs
• 4. Comino vence al Diablo and Other Terrifying Episodes: Teatro Guinol's Itinerant Puppet Theater
• 5. Hacer Patria through Peer Education: Literacy, Alcohol, and the Proletarian Child
• 6. Hermanitos de la Raza: Civic Organizations and International Diplomacy Conclusion: Exceptional and Everyday Citizens Notes Bibliography Index.
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During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget. While most historical accounts of postrevolutionary Mexico omit discussion of how children themselves experienced and perceived the sudden onslaught of resources and attention, Elena Jackson Albarran, in Seen and Heard in Mexico, places children's voices at the center of her analysis. Albarran draws on archived records of children's experiences in the form of letters, stories, scripts, drawings, interviews, presentations, and homework assignments to explore how Mexican childhood, despite the hopeful visions of revolutionary ideologues, was not a uniform experience set against the monolithic backdrop of cultural nationalism, but rather was varied and uneven. Moving children from the aesthetic to the political realm, Albarran situates them in their rightful place at the center of Mexico's revolutionary narrative by examining the avenues through which children contributed to ideas about citizenship and nation.
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• Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• 1: Northeast Brazil: The Largest Area of Poverty in South America;
• 2: Into the Field;
• 3: The Social Functions of Ex-Votos;
• 4: Ex-Votos: Aesthetics and Forms;
• 5: Pilgrims and Politics;
• 6: Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.

This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Caninde in northeast Brazil. Their tradition involves pilgrimage and the practice of crafting unique offerings in payment for healing and reversal of bad fortune - a practice predating Christianity and brought to the new world by explorers and early European colonial powers. King argues that these marginalized Brazilians, living in a region where poverty is endemic, use St. Francis of Wounds to replace the medical and social services that the government has failed to provide. She further illustrationstrates the evolution of the regional practice with photographs documenting all stages of this tradition, especially the folk art ex-votos used to pay for the saint's intervention.
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The authors of Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism argue that, while the more traditional feminists of the 20th century did not recognize in their theoretical and literary work the diversity of women's experiences, current Latin American post-feminist and post-modern writers are proposing a transgressive new social order, resulting in a more significant cultural resistance to the society they represent. The authors included in this volume show that the narrative of the writers analyzed here is not limited to recognizing issues focused on gender or even sexuality, but also explores the female aspiration of a dignified life and overcoming the dominant structures in their social, political and cultural dimension. The complex female situation of this millennium has become the primary quandary while searching for new forms to represent women in literature. In Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism, the authors confront this dilemma in a sharp, sophisticated and harmonious way, offering a critical text that will be of interest for both specialists and general readers interested in Latin American literature and culture of the recent years.
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• Front Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Foreword by Raúl Zibechi; Editors' Introduction; Mexico; Introduction by Luis Ballesteros; Women in the Zapatista Movement; Voices from the Oaxaca uprising of 2006; Movement for National Renewal (MORENA); #YoSoy132; Guatemala; Introduction by Phil Neff; Paula Barrios, Women Transforming the World (MTM); Roberto Mendez, H.I.J.O.S. and CPR Urbana; Edwin E.A. Guevara, SITRAPETEN union organizer; Javier de León and Fernando Solís, anti-mining activists; Honduras; Introduction by Adrienne Pine; Nery Rodríguez, middle-school teacher.

• Leda Sánchez, Marina Pagoada, and Juana Buchanan, Nurses in ResistanceSara Hernández, Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguán (MUCA); Ricardo, gay activist, FNRP member; El Salvador; Introduction by J. Heyward; Miguel Rivera, community organizer; Lower Lempa River/Bay of Jiquilisco Coordinating Committee; Lilian Coto de Cuellar, FMLN National Secretariat for Women; Oswaldo Natarén and members of the University Front of Roque Dalton; Nicaragua; Introduction by Clifton Ross; Andrea Morales Pérez, Sandinista Workers' Federation; Altagracia del Socorro Solís, Banana Workers' Encampment.

• Gloria Paniagua, Another World Is PossibleVictor Hugo Tinoco, Sandinista Renewal Movement; Luisa Molina, Civil Coordinating Committee; Yamilet Mejía, feminist lawyer and activist; Colombia; Introduction by Mario A. Murillo; Manuela Ruiz, ecologist; Luis Yonda, Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca; Antonio Navarro Wolff, governor of Nariño state, former M-19 guerrilla; Jesús Tuberquía, San José de Apartadó Peace Community; Venezuela; Introduction by Clifton Ross; Rosangela Orozco, El Panal 2021 Commune; J. Arturo Albarrán, National Socialist Council for Agroecology.

• María Vicenta Dávila, popular educatorAlexis Romero, indigenous activist; Orlando Chirino, CCURA (United Revolutionary Autonomous Class Current), oil industry worker; Ecuador; Introduction by Marc Becker; Milton Chamorro, Itchimbía land occupation; Humberto Cholango, ECUARUNARI/CONAIE; Dioyenes Lucio, FENOCIN (National Federation of Indigenous, Peasant, and Black Organizations); Monica Chuji Gualinga, CONAIE, Constitutional Assembly; Luis Macas, Scientific Institute of Indigenous Cultures (ICCI); Brazil; Introduction by Michael Fox; Ana Hanauer, Landless Workers' Movement (MST).

• Nelsa Inês Fabian Nespolo, "We Will Overcome Cooperative of United Seamstresses"Ana Vanesca and Pedro Cardoso, City of Plastic and the Urban Resistance Front; Eliana Sousa Silva, favela activist; Raimundo Belmiro, rubber tapper and environmental activist; Peru; Introduction by Raphael Hoetmer and Mar Daza; Hugo Blanco, writer and activist; Margarita Pérez Anchiraico, community organizer in National Confederation of Peruvian Communities Affected by Mining (CONACAMI); Magdiel Carrión, Ayabaca Provincial Federation of Peasant Communities, CONACAMI.

Bringing together voices from the movements behind the wave of change that swept Latin America at the turn of the 21st century, this unique collection of interviews features five dozen leaders and grassroots activists from 15 countries, presenting their work and debating pressing questions of power, organizational forms, and relations with the state. These movements have galvanized long-silentor silencedsectors of society: indigenous people, campesinos, students, the LGBT community, the unemployed, and all those left out of the promised utopia of a globalized economy. They have deployed a wide range of strategies and actions, sometimes building schools or clinics, sometimes occupying factories or fields, sometimes organizing political parties to take the reins of the state, and sometimes resisting government policies in order to protect their new-found power in community. This indispensable compilation of primary source material is organized in chapters by country, with each chapter introduced by a solidarity activist, writer, or academic with deep knowledge of the place. It addresses a wide range of issues, from fighting against mines and agribusiness to demanding equal participation through the recognition of language and culture, giving participants, students, and observers of social movements a chance to learn from their experiences.

• Introduction Chaper
• 1: BACKGROUND Chaper
• 2: JEWISH REFUGE: A EUROPEAN PROBLEM, 1933-1937
• Chapter 3: THE KEY YEAR: 1938
• Chapter 4: FROM PROJECTS FOR JEWISH COLONIZATION TO GREATER INFLEXIBILITY, 1939-1940
• Chapter 5: SIGNS OF A THAW? THE EARLY YEARS OF MANUEL AVILA CAMACHO'S GOVERNMENT, 1941-1942
• Chapter 6: THE URGENCY OF REFUGE: 1943-1945 Final Thoughts Bibliography Index.
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Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje-the country's blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity-by turning away foreigners considered "inassimilable" and therefore "undesirable." Through her analysis of Mexico's role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country's traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incomodo. Mexico y los refugiados judios, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.
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• ""Cover Page""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Objective, Method, Data, and Structure""; ""Orthography""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Synopsis of Texts""; ""PART ONE: HISTORY""; ""1. Pava vitsikirori kipatsi (Pava, Who Made the Earth) Cristobal Jumanga Lopez""; ""2. Okoñaatantakari kaniri (How Sweet Manioc Appeared) Alberto Perez Espinoza""; ""3. Okoaatantari paamari (How Fire Came into Existence) Ruth Quillatupa Lopez""; ""4. Pava Apinka (God Apinka) Luis Mauricio Rosa""

• ""5. Apinka Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb and Abdias Caleb Quinchori""""6. Apinka Elias Meza Pedro, Gregorio Santos Perez, and Livia Julio de Quinchori""; ""7. Yookantapakairi virakocha (How the Whites Threw Us Out) Fredi Miguel Ucayali""; ""8. Natsitonini (The Stream of Bones) Manuel Ruben Jacinto""; ""9. Tsika okantakota ovayeritantsi (About the Craft of War) Daniel Bernales Quillatupa""; ""10. Apapanani (The Brook of Liver Parts) Gregorio Santos Perez""; ""11. Ovayeri inoshikantarori kooya (When Warriors Kidnapped a Woman) Paulina Garcia Eate""

• ""12. Ovayeri inoshikantzi eentsi (The Warriors Kidnapped Children) Ines Perez de Santos""""13. Nonkinkitsatakotero nayironi (I Will Tell about My Deceased Mother-in-Law) Victorina Rosas de Castro""; ""14. Tsika okanta nosaikantakari Marankiaroki (How We Settled Down in Bajo Marankiari) Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb""; ""15. Tsika okanta noaakoventakiri matsipaye (How I Witnessed Events Involving Witches) Bertha Rodriguez de Caleb""; ""PART TWO: LANDSCAPE""; ""16. Ashiropanko (The Iron House) Gerardo Castro Manuela""

• ""17. Atziri yamaniri mapi poa paamari (People Were Worshipping Fire and Stone) ElD; as Meza Pedro, with Gregorio Santos Perez""""18. Atziri yamaniri paamari (People Were Worshipping Fire) Cristobal Jumanga Lopez""; ""19. Tzivi (Salt) Ruth Quillatupa Lopez""; ""20. Tzivi (Salt) Abraham Jumanga Lopez""; ""21. Manitzipanko (The Jaguar House) Ruth Quillatupa Lopez""; ""22. Imoro Naviriri (The Naviriri Hole) Elias Meza Pedro""; ""23. Otzinantakari otzishi omontero Samamparini (How the Hill Appeared across from the Village of Villa Progreso) Raul Martin Bernata""

• ""24. Anashironi (The Anashirona Stream) Julio Castro Shinkaki, with Delia Rosas Rodriguez""""25. Pichanaki Otoniel Ramos Rodriguez, with Daniel Bernales Quillatupa""; ""26. Pichanaki Almacia Benavidez Fernandez""; ""27. Kiatsi (The Owner of the River) Carmen Pachiri Quinchori""; ""28. Peyari (The Bone Spirit) Gregorio Santos Perez""; ""29. Iñaaventa kamari Kovatsironi (Speaking with Regard to the Demon from Kovatsironi) Ines Perez de Santos""; ""30. Tsamirimenta (The Curassow Crest Stone) Moises Santos Rojas""; ""31. Maninkaroite (The Invisible Women) Moises Santos Rojas""

"A comprehensive bilingual collection of Ashéninka Perené Arawakan oral literature, including traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts of old customs and rituals, contemporary women's autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches"-- Provided by publisher.
"Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The rich storytelling traditions of the Ashéninka Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts, women's autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches. The Ashéninkas are located in the colonization frontier at the foot of the eastern Andes and the western fringe of the Amazonian jungle. Unfortunately, their language has a slim chance of surviving because only about three hundred fluent speakers remain. This volume collects and preserves the power and vitality of Ashéninka oral and linguistic traditions, as told by thirty members of the Native community. Upper Perene Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual covers a range of themes in the Ashéninka oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts about customs and rituals, as well as songs, chants, and oratory. Transcribed and translated by a specialist in Ashéninka language varieties, Elena Mihas, and grounded in the actual performances of Asheninka speakers, this collection makes these stories available in English for the first time. Each original text in Ashéninka is accompanied by an English translation and each theme is introduced with an essay providing biographical, cultural, and linguistic information. The result is a masterful, authoritative, yet entertaining and provocative collection of oral literature that vividly testifies to the power of Ashéninka storytelling"-- Provided by publisher.

• Ávila Camacho's difficult first year: December 1940-December 1941
• Increasingly tenuous "neutrality": December 1941-May 1942
• Mexico enters the global conflict: May-June 1942
• "Orienting" the public: June 1942-July 1943
• Toward direct participation: July 1943-July 1944
• Preparing for peacetime: July 1944-November 1945.

Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexican shores, the conflict had a significant influence on the country's political development. Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played an important part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime. Through its management of Mexico's role in the war, including the sensitive question of military participation, the administration of Manuel Avila Camacho was able to insist upon a policy of national unity, bringing together disparate factions and making open opposition to the government difficult. World War II also made possible a reshaping of the country's foreign relations, allowing Mexico to repair ties that had been strained in the 1930s and to claim a leading place among Latin American nations in the postwar world. The period was also marked by an unprecedented degree of cooperation with the United States in support of the Allied cause, culminating in the deployment of a Mexican fighter squadron in the Pacific, a symbolic direct contribution to the war effort.
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• Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Redefining Urban Space and the Promotion of Classicism;
• 1: Manuel Tolsá's Equestrian Statue of Charles IV and Buen Gusto in Late Colonial Mexico;
• 2: Gothic Taste vs. Buen Gusto: Creolism, Urban Space, and Aesthetic Discourse in Late Colonial Peru;
• 3: El Templete: Classicism and the Dialectics of Colonial Urban Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba;
• 4: Neoclassical Pompai in Early Twentieth-Century Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; PART TWO: Imprinting Classicism and Its Consumption.

• 5: A Taste for Art in Late Colonial New Spain6: The Plantation Landscape and Its Architecture: Classicism, Representation, and Slavery;
• 7: Buen Gusto and the Transition to Nation: 1830-1850;
• 8: A Western Mirage on the Bolivian Altiplano; PART THREE: Dividing Lines: Practices and Problems;
• 9: The Language of Line in Late Eighteenth-Century New Spain: The Calligraphic Equestrian Portrait of Bernardo de Gálvez (1796);
• 10: Art and Viceregal Taste in Late Colonial Lima and Buenos Aires.

• 11: From Baroque Triumphalism to Neoclassical Renunciation: Altarpieces of the Cathedral of Cuzco in the Era of Independence12: Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Late Nineteenth Century: An Appraisal in the Context of the 1881 Centennial of Mexico's Academy of San Carlos; Contributors; Index.

The promotion of classicism in the visual arts in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin America and the need to "revive" buen gusto (good taste) are the themes of this collection of essays. The contributors provide new insights into neoclassicism and buen gusto as cultural, not just visual, phenomena in the late colonial and early national periods and promote new approaches to the study of Latin American art history and visual culture. The essays examine neoclassical visual culture from assorted perspectives. They consider how classicism was imposed, promoted, adapted, negotiated, and contested in myriad social, political, economic, cultural, and temporal situations. Case studies show such motivations as the desire to impose imperial authority, to fashion the nationalist self, and to form and maintain new social and cultural ideologies. The adaptation of classicism and buen gusto in the Americas was further shaped by local factors, including the realities of place and the influence of established visual and material traditions.
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• The colonial period : the situation at the beginning
• Spanish overseas expansion : discoveries, conquests, and colonization
• The development of the colonial and missionary church in Spanish America
• Colonial ethics
• Mission work and the development of church structures in Brazil from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries
• The development of the church after Trent
• The Inquisition and the "extirpation of idolatry" : defending the Iberian colonization and commerce monopoly and the Catholic confessional monopoly against the Protestant seaborne powers and the persistence of traditional indigenous religions
• Popular religiosity, popular Catholicism, and popular piety
• The century of the Enlightenment
• The Christian churches of Latin America in the face of national movements and the struggle by conservatives and liberals for a new political order in the nineteenth century
• The closing phase of the confessional age : the Catholic Church's struggle to renew its social influence and resist Protestantism (from the last third of the nineteenth century until 1958)
• Christianity in the age of ecumenism and the crisis in the development of nation-states.

Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Christianity in Latin America provides a complete overview of over 500 years of the history of Christianity in the `New World'. The inclusion of German research in this book is an important asset to the Anglo-American research area, in disclosing information that was hitherto not available in English. This work will present the reader with a very good survey into the history of Christianity on the South American continent, based on a tremendous breadth of literature.
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• General Editor's Preface List of Tables, Figures and Map Preface: Genesis of a Question and Interpretation Acknowledgement
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Setting the Stage: Native Peoples and Augustinian Missions in Central Mexico and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier
• 3. The War against Satan and Sin: The Open Chapel Murals of San Nicolas Tolentino and Santa Maria Xoxoteco
• 4. The Holy War against the Chichimecas: The Ixmiquilpan Church Mural Series
• 5. Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier: Augustinian Evangelization of the Sierra Gorda, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
• 6. Conclusion Glossary Selected Bibliography Index.
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In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the native populations of central Mexico. The native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards invaded the Chichimeca frontier (the frontier between sedentary and nomadic natives), the missionaries faced new challenges on both sides of the frontier. Some sedentary natives resisted evangelization, and the missionaries saw themselves in a war against Satan and his minions. The Augustinians assumed a pivotal role in the evangelization campaign on both sides of the Chichimeca frontier, and employed different methods in the effort to convince the natives to embrace the new faith and to defeat Satan's designs. They used graphic visual aids and the threat of an eternity of suffering in hell to bring recalcitrant natives, such as the Otomi of the Mezquital Valley, into the fold.
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• Introduction : between the age of Atlantic revolutions and the age of empire / Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette
• Themes and tensions in a contradictory decade : Ibero-America as a multiplicity of states / Brian Hamnett
• Rafael del Riego and the Spanish origins of the nineteenth-century Mexican pronunciamiento / Will Fowler
• Include and rule : the limits of liberal colonial policy, 1810-1837 / Josep M. Fradera
• Entangled patriotisms : Italian liberals and Spanish America in the 1820s / Maurizio Isabella
• The Brazilian origins of the 1826 Portuguese constitution / Gabriel Paquette
• An American system : the North American Union and Latin America in the 1820s / Jay Sexton
• The Chilean Irishman Bernardo O'Higgins and the independence of Peru / Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy
• Corinne in the Andes : European advice for women in 1820s Argentina and Chile / Iona Macintyre
• Heretics, cadavers, and capitalists : European foreigners in Venezuela during the 1820s / Reuben Zahler
• Porteno liberals and imperialist emissaries in the Rio de la Plata : Rivadavia and the British / David Rock
• "There is no doubt that we are under threat from the negroes of Santo Domingo" : the specter of Haiti in the Spanish Caribbean in the 1820s / Carrie Gibson
• Bartolomé de las Casas and the slave trade to Cuba circa 1820 / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
• The 1820s in perspective: the Bolivarian decade / Matthew Brown.

Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s. In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections after Colonialism, edited by Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette, builds upon recent advances in the history of colonialism and imperialism by studying former colonies and metropoles through the same analytical lens, as part of an attempt to understand the complex connections - political, economic, intellectual, and cultural - between Europe and Latin America that survived the demise of empire. Historians are increasingly aware of the persistence of robust links between Europe and the new Latin American nations. This book focuses on connections both during the events culminating with independence and in subsequent years, a period strangely neglected in European and Latin American scholarship. Bringing together distinguished historians of both Europe and America, the volume reveals a new cast of characters and relationships ranging from unrepentant American monarchists, compromise seeking liberals in Lisbon and Madrid whenvisioned transatlantic federations, and British merchants in the River Plate who saw opportunity where others saw risk to public moralists whose audiences spanned from Paris to Santiago de Chile and plantation owners in eastern Cuba who feared that slave rebellions elsewhere in the Caribbean would spread to their island. Contributors Matthew Brown / Will Fowler / Josep M. Fradera / Carrie Gibson / Brian Hamnett / Maurizio Isabella / Iona Macintyre / Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy / Gabriel Paquette / David Rock / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara / Jay Sexton / Reuben Zahler.
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• ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Etzatlán and Its Region""; ""2: Correspondence Analysis of Archaeological Abundance Matrices""; ""3: Ceramic Type Descriptions""; ""4: Ceramic Analysis""; ""5: Chronological Considerations""; ""6: Alternative Analyses""; ""7: Conclusions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""

Because the archaeology of West Mexico has received little attention from researchers, large segments of the region's prehistoric ceramic sequences have long remained incomplete. This book goes far toward filling that gap by analysing a collection of potsherds excavated in the 1960s and housed since then, though heretofore unanalysed, at UCLA. The authors employ the rarely used statistical technique known as correspondence analysis to sequence the Long-Glassow collection of artifacts. The book explains how correspondence analysis works and how it can be applied in archaeology. In addition to describing the archaeological sites in north central Jalisco where the collection comes from, the authors provide an ethnohistorical overview including information on the earliest Spanish explorers to reach the sites. They sequence more than seventy ceramic types and derive a master sequence from more than ten thousand potsherds. In addition to Mesoamerican archaeologists, the audience will also include other archaeologists concerned with ceramic analysis or the application of statistics to archaeology.
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• INTRODUCTION: Setting the Table
• CHAPTER ONE: The Elevation of Cooking in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina
• CHAPTER TWO: Creating a Public in Buenos Aires and Beyond
• CHAPTER THREE: Expanding Consumption and Middle-Class Domesticity
• CHAPTER FOUR: Professionalizing a Thriftier Homemaker
• CHAPTER FIVE: Shifting Priorities and Entertaining Inequalities
• CHAPTER SIX: Cooking in and out of the Spotlight
• CONCLUSION: Keeping the Table Set.

Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in terms of the fame she enjoyed and the adulation she received. Her cookbook garnered tremendous popularity, becoming one of the three best-selling books in Argentina. Dona Petrona capitalised on and contributed to the growing appreciation for women's domestic roles as the Argentine economy expanded and fell into periodic crises. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including her own interviews with Dona Petrona's inner circle and with everyday women and men, Rebekah E. Pite provides a lively social history of twentieth-century Argentina, as exemplified through the fascinating story of Dona Petrona and the homemakers to whom she dedicated her career.Pite's narrative illuminates the important role of food--its consumption, preparation, and production--in daily life, class formation, and national identity. By connecting issues of gender, domestic work, and economic development, Pite brings into focus the critical importance of women's roles as consumers, cooks, and community builders.
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• Reading time, knowledge, and power in the Ibero-American Atlantic
• The Mediterranean is the Atlantic : imperialisme and ideology in Eugeni d'Ors' Catalan gloses
• Reimagining America, reproducing Europe : ambivalence and intersubjectivity in Germán Arciniegas' "indigenous" ethics
• Knowledge beyond borders : Clarice Lispector chronicles affect in dictatorship Brazil
• The virtual subject : Carlos Monsiváis, media time and Mexico's "citizens-on-their-way-to-becoming-citizens"
• Conclusion: From chronicle to blog : (digital) knowledge and the Atlantic subject as palimpsest.

"Rethinks the concepts of nation and community in Spain and Latin America by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog"--Provided by publisher.

• Foreword by Edwidge Danticat
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: 35 Seconds
• 1. We Don't Have Enough Water to Make Tears (Surviving the Earthquake, or Not) (January, 2010)
• 2. What We Have, We Share: Solidarity Undergirds Rescue and Relief (January, 2010)
• 3. The Pearl of the Antilles: The Political Economy of Peril (February, 2010)
• 4. Maroon Man: Social Movements Throughout History (February, 2010)
• 5. We Will Carry You On: The Women's Movement (March, 2010)
• 6. You Can't Eat Okra with One Finger: Community-Run Humanitarian Aid (March, 2010)
• 7. Fragile as a Crystal (Tales from Three Months Out) (April, 2010)
• 8. Children of the Land: Small Farmers and Agriculture (April, 2010)
• 9. Grains and Guns: Foreign Aid and Reconstruction (May, 2010)
• 10. The Ones Who Must Decide: Social Movements in the Reconstruction (May, 2010)
• 11. Our Bodies Are Shaking Now: Violence against Girls and Women (June, 2010)
• 12. The Creole Connection: People-to-People Aid and Solidarity across Borders (June, 2010)
• 13. We've Lost the Battle, But We Haven't Lost the War (Tales from Six Months Out) (July, 2010)
• 14. Social Fault Lines: Class and Catastrophe (July, 2010)
• 15. Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice: The Politics of Food Aid and Trade (August, 2010)
• 16. Home: From Tent Camp to Community (August, 2010)
• 17. For Want of Twenty Cents: Children's Rights and Security (September, 2010)
• 18. The Super Bowl of Disasters: Profiting from Crisis (September, 2010)
• 19. The Commonplace amidst the Catastrophic (Tales from Nine Months Out) (October, 2010)
• 20. Beyond Medical Care: The Health of the Nation (October, 2010)
• 21. Hold Strong: The Pros and Pitfalls of Resilience (November, 2010)
• 22. Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There: The Offshore Assembly Industry (November, 2010)
• 23. The Central Pillar: Peasant Women (December, 2010)
• 24. Elections (in the Time of Cholera) (December, 2010)
• 25. We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting (Tales from Twelve Months Out) (January, 2011)
• Epilogue: Bringing it Back Home
• Notes Index.
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Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing more than a quarter-million people and leaving another two million Haitians homeless, Bell has spent much of her time in Haiti. Her new book, Fault Lines, is a searing account of the first year after the earthquake. Bell explores how strong communities and an age-old gift culture have helped Haitians survive in the wake of an unimaginable disaster, one that only compounded the preexisting social and economic distress of their society. The book examines the history that caused such astronomical destruction. It also draws in theories of resistance and social movements to scrutinize grassroots organizing for a more just and equitable country. Fault Lines offers rich perspectives rarely seen outside Haiti. Readers accompany the author through displaced persons camps, shantytowns, and rural villages, where they get a view that defies the stereotype of Haiti as a lost nation of victims. Street journals impart the author's intimate knowledge of the country, which spans thirty-five years. Fault Lines also combines excerpts of more than one hundred interviews with Haitians, historical and political analysis, and investigative journalism. Fault Lines includes twelve photos from the year following the 2010 earthquake. Bell also investigates and critiques U.S. foreign policy, emergency aid, standard development approaches, the role of nongovernmental organizations, and disaster capitalism. Woven through the text are comparisons to the crisis and cultural resistance in Bell's home city of New Orleans, when the levees broke in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Ultimately a tale of hope, Fault Lines will give readers a new understanding of daily life, structural challenges, and collective dreams in one of the world's most complex countries.
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• Introducing the Chaco frontier
• Forgetting Solano López : debating the Paraguayan foundational narrative
• Managing Rojas Silva : rhetoric and inaction
• Comparing eastern and western Paraguay : scientific nationalism
• Civilizing the Chaco : the religious arrive
• Becoming Guaraní : soldiers, agriculturalists, and poets
• Remembering Solano López : the rise of febrerismo
• Reconsidering the frontier : the decades following the war.

Paraguay's Chaco frontier, one of the least known areas in one of the least known countries in South America, became the unexpected scene of the bloodiest international war in the Americas, the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932-35). A picture postcard from the Chaco War era shows a large heart, emblazoned with the word "Paraguayo, " pumping its way through the flat dusty wilderness of the Chaco and leaving a zigzag trail of smashed Bolivian forts and soldiers along the way. This visual propaganda shows why the Paraguayans were sure they would win the war: they were brave, passionate soldiers. They considered themselves invincible descendants of the great hero of the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-70), Marshal Francisco Solano Lopez (El Mariscal). But Solano Lopez was not universally revered. A controversial figure, he was widely believed to have led Paraguay into economic, social, and cultural ruin. The debate over Lopez's actions shaped the country's culture and politics for over a century after the War of the Triple Alliance. Bridget Maria Chesterton's in-depth examination of Paraguay's unique nationalism and the role of the frontier in its formation places the debate over Lopez in the context of larger themes of Latin American history, including racial and ethnic identity, authoritarian regimes, and militarism.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Runa Puma; 1 The Open Whole; 2 The Living Thought; 3 Soul Blindness; 4 Trans-Species Pidgins; 5 Form's Effortless Efficacy; 6 The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead); Epilogue: Beyond; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? This book challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human - and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, the book draws on ethnographic research to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's most complex ecosystems.

• Introduction Kenneth J. Andrien Part I: New World Beginnings and Efforts to Create a Colonial Social Order, 1492-1610
• Chapter 1: Gaspar Antonio Chi: Bridging the Conquest of Yucatan Matthew Restall
• Chapter 2: Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru Susan E. Ramirez
• Chapter 3: Dona Isabel Sisa: A Sixteenth-Century Indian Woman Resisting Gender Inequalities Ana Maria Presta
• Chapter 4: Domingos Fernandes Nobre: "Tomacauna, " a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil Alida C. Metcalf
• Chapter 5: The Mysterious Catalina: Indian or Spaniard? Noble David Cook Part II: The Mature Colonial Order, 1610-1740
• Chapter 6: Ursula de Jesus: A Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic Nancy E. van Deusen
• Chapter 7: Agustina Ruiz: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico Zeb Tortorici
• Chapter 8: Zumbi of Palmares: Challenging the Portuguese Colonial Order Mary Karasch
• Chapter 9: Diego de Ocana: Holy Wanderer Kenneth Mills
• Chapter 10: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Native Writer and Litigant in Early Colonial Peru Rolena Adorno
• Chapter 11: Ana de Vega: Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexican Healer Joan Bristol Part III: Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion, 1740-1825
• Chapter 12: Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness Ann Twinam
• Chapter 13: Victorina Loza: Quitena Merchant in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Christiana Borchart de Moreno
• Chapter 14: Jose Antonio da Silva: Marriage and Concubinage in Colonial Brazil Muriel S. Nazzari
• Chapter 15: Juan Barbarin: The 1795 French Conspiracy in Buenos Aires Lyman L. Johnson
• Chapter 16: Agustin Agualongo and the Royalist Cause in the Wars of Independence Marcela Echeverri
• Chapter 17: Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil Camilla Townsend.
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The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. Now fully updated with new and revised essays, the book is carefully balanced among countries and ethnicities. Within an overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting, the stories bring to life issues of gender; race and ethnicity; conflicts over religious orthodoxy; and crime, violence, and rebellion. Written by leading scholars, this fresh and human text will engage as well as inform students.
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The process of construction of national states had a decisive moment during the period of revolutions that spanned from the end of the eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Even if it was a generalized process throughout the Western world, the majority of social scientists that have analyzed it have based their theoretical models on the European and North American experiences. This volume pays particular attention to the historical experience of Latin America and accounts for its distinctive regional and national characteristics through the analysis of cases. It also evokes the existence of certain features of the process that historiography has not sufficiently taken into consideration until now. This book provides the first detailed perspective of the formation of the State's bureaucracies in Latin America, a long and complex process shaped by the political, economic, social, and cultural conditions of different countries in the continent. These bureaucracies absorbed and institutionalized the pre-existing configurations of power while simultaneously transforming them. The essays included in this book offer an innovative vantage point for the analysis of issues that continue to be crucial in present-day Latin America, such as those that involve the relations between the State and society.
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• Contributors: Linda Allegro, Tisa M. Anders, Scott Carter, Caitlin Didier, Miranda Cady Hallett, Edmund Hamann, Albert Iaroi, Errol D. Jones, Jane Juffer, Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Janelle Reeves, Jennifer F. Reynolds, Sandi Smith-Nonini, and Andrew Grant Wood.
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This collection examines Latina/o immigrants and the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. Contributors look at outside factors affecting migration, including corporate agriculture, technology, globalization, and government. They also reveal how cultural affinities like religion, strong family ties, farming, and cowboy culture attract these newcomers to the Heartland. Throughout, essayists point to how hostile neoliberal policy reforms have made it difficult for Latin American immigrants to find social and economic stability. Filled with varied and eye-opening perspectives, Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland reveals how identities, economies, and geographies are changing as Latin Americans adjust to their new homes, jobs, and communities. Contributors: Linda Allegro, Tisa M. Anders, Scott Carter, Caitlin Didier, Miranda Cady Hallett, Edmund Hamann, Albert Iaroi, Errol D. Jones, Jane Juffer, Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Janelle Reeves, Jennifer F. Reynolds, Sandi Smith-Nonini, and Andrew Grant Wood.
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• The Mexican Revolution / John Mason Hart
• Decade of disorder: the execution of León Martínez Jr. and Mexican/Anglo race relations in Texas during the first four years of the Mexican Revolution / Nicholas Villanueva Jr.
• "Wire me before shooting": federalism in (in)action: the Texas-Mexico Border during the revolution, 1910-1920 / Don M. Coerver
• The rhetoric and reality of nationalism: Monterrey in the revolution / Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga
• Creating a schizophrenic border: migration and perception, 1920-1925 / Linda B. Hall
• Revolutionary Mexican nationalism and the Mexican immigrant community in Los Angeles during the Great Depression: memory, identity, and survival / Francisco E. Balderrama
• From the Caudillo to Tata Lázaro: the Maximato in perspective, 1928-1934 / Jürgen Buchenau
• Revolution without resonance? Mexico's "fiesta of bullets" and its aftermath in Chiapas, 1910-1940 / Stephen E. Lewis
• Back to centralism, 1920-1940 / Carlos Martínez Assad
• The Mexican Revolution: one century of reflections, 1910-2010 / Thomas Benjamin
• About the contributors.

In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book.These essays, the result of the 45th annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, presented by the University of Texas at Arlington in March 2010, commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of the revolution.A potent mix of factors-including the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few thousand hacienda owners, rancheros, and foreign capitalists; the ideological conflict between the Diaz government and the dissident regional reformers; and the grinding poverty afflicting the majority of the nation's eleven million industrial and rural labourers-provided the volatile fuel that produced the first major political and social revolution of the twentieth century. The conflagration soon swept across the Rio Grande; indeed, The Mexican Revolution shows clearly that the struggle in Mexico had tremendous implications for the American Southwest. During the years of revolution, hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens crossed the border into the United States. As a result, the region experienced waves of ethnically motivated violence, economic tensions, and the mass expulsions of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent.
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