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Latin American Elections: Choice and Change by Richard Nadeau
$155.86The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on... -
Seriously Funny: Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance by Samuel Schmidt
RRP: $56.60$45.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530779Author Samuel SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
Running After Paradise: Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest by Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons
RRP: $69.20$57.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816548293Author Colleen M. Scanlan LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona... -
The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavarez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo by Minou Tavarez Mirabal
RRP: $207.90$168.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683402626Author Minou Tavarez MirabalFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams)... -
Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation by Eduardo Silva
RRP: $94.50$77.18Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest... -
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss: The Second Administration of ColombianPresident Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010 by Harvey F. Kline
$105.04Fighting Monsters in the Abyss offers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2006–2010) to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America’s most important... -
Democratization by Institutions: Argentina's Transition Years in Comparative Perspective by Leslie E. Anderson
$157.63In this pioneering study of democratization in Argentina, Leslie Andersonchallenges Robert Putnam’s thesis that democracy requires high levels ofsocial capital. She demonstrates in Democratization by Institutions thatformal institutions (e.g., the... -
Democracy in Latin America: A New History since Independence by Thomas C. Wright
RRP: $52.50$47.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538149348Author Thomas C. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 152g -
Divined Intervention: Religious Institutions and Collective Action by Christopher Wayne Hale
$52.48Divined Intervention provides an innovative institutionalist account for why religion enables political activism in some settings, but not others. Christopher W. Hale argues that decentralized religious institutions facilitate grassroots collective... -
Human Capital Versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America by Fabian A Borges
RRP: $62.90$50.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472038978Author Fabian A BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Michigan PressPublisher University of Michigan PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse by Carol Wise
RRP: $41.98$38.07Over the last twenty years Latin America has seen a definitive movement toward civilian rule. Significant trade, fiscal, and monetary reforms have accompanied this shift, exposing previously state-led economies to the forces of the market. Despite... -
Canada Looks South: In Search of an Americas Policy by Peter McKenna
RRP: $77.70$71.13Recent events in the western hemisphere have led to a dramatic shift in the strategic and political importance of Latin America. But with relations still cool between the United States and Cuba, and Venezuela becoming more distant every day, there is... -
Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America by Carol Wise
RRP: $39.88$36.29Most of the analysis of Latin American exchange rate problems and policies has concentrated on the economic side of things. This volume instead examines the politics of exchange rate management in four nations that had very different approaches and... -
The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an Ms-13 Hitman by Oscar Martinez
RRP: $35.68$24.09As a boy, Miguel Angel Tobar fled a small town in El Salvador torn apart by warring guerrillas and US-backed death squads. As a teen in Los Angeles, he fought discrimination and beatings by joining a gang, MS-13. By the time the US deported him to San... -
Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Julia Sweig
RRP: $23.08$16.32Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive... -
A Fish in the Water by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780571175123
RRP: $31.48$20.58Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his... -
Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela by Raul Gallegos 9781640122130
RRP: $39.88$34.36Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude-the world's largest reserves-an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its... -
The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein 9781608463572
RRP: $27.28$13.48In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich 'Puertopians' are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of... -
Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela by George Cicciarello-Maher 9781784782238
RRP: $41.98$30.98Since 2011, a wave of popular mobilizations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitment to ideals of radical democracy, and a willingness to... -
Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Postcolonail State by Aaron Kamugisha 9789766376192
RRP: $52.40$43.39Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State reckons with the vast body of radical work and thought on the post-colonial Caribbean state. It focuses on the period after the Second World War, when a significant number of Caribbean... -
Evo's Bolivia: Continuity and Change by Linda C. Farthing
RRP: $46.18$39.46In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere's first... -
Black Flags of the Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot by Dr Simon Cottee 9780755616923
RRP: $50.38$43.97The Caribbean does not immediately come to mind when we think about ISIS - and yet, in 2017, Trinidad and Tobago ranked first place in the list of western countries with the highest rates of foreign-fighter radicalization, with over 240 nationals... -
Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays by Adolfo Gilly
RRP: $63.00$49.98The Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed many of Latin America's most dramatic events, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s and Cuba during the Missile Crisis to the guerrilla wars of Central America and Mexico's Zapatista... -
Understanding Contemporary Brazil by Jeff Garmany
RRP: $77.68$68.31Brazil has famously been called a country of contradictions. It is a place where narratives of "racial democracy" exist in the face of stark inequalities, and where the natural environment is celebrated as a point of national pride, but at the same time... -
Territories In Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements by Raul Zibechi 9781849351072
RRP: $29.40$19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351072Author Raul ZibechiFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 490g -
Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption and Reform Under Democracy by Luciano Da Ros 9781626379978
RRP: $62.90$51.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626379978Author Luciano Da RosFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers IncPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers IncWeight(grams) 152g -
Organized Violence: Capitalist Warfare in Latin America by Dawn Paley 9780889776104
RRP: $52.50$48.93Official stories say that violence in Latin America is a product of criminal activity and the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narrative serves corporate and state interests and de-politicizes events that have more to do with logistics... -
The Right against Rights in Latin America by Leigh A. Payne
$147.42From President Bolsonaro's openly racist, misogynist, and homophobic rhetoric in Brazil, to the politicisation of gender ideology leading to the rejection of a peace deal in Colombia and beyond, Latin America is home to right-against-rights movements... -
Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition by Alex Dupuy 9781442261112
RRP: $63.00$57.73In this important book, leading scholar Alex Dupuy provides a critical reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Dupuy evaluates the French colonial context of Saint-Domingue and then Haiti, the achievements and limitations of the... -
Democratic Brazil Divided by Peter Kingstone
RRP: $86.10$70.52March 2015 should have been a time of celebration for Brazil, as it marked thirty years of democracy, a newfound global prominence, over a decade of rising economic prosperity, and stable party politics under the rule of the widely admired PT (Workers'... -
Nicaragua: Revolution and Democracy by José Luis Coraggio 9781032783567
RRP: $182.68$158.63First published in 1986, Nicaragua, written from an insider's point of view breaks the barrier of disinformation which has surrounded the Sandinista revolution. To accomplish this task the author discusses the major forces that have shaped Nicaragua’s... -
Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy" by Steve Ellner 9780742554559
RRP: $220.50$198.51This authoritative book offers a comprehensive assessment of contemporary Venezuela. Analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of Hugo Chavez, leading scholars move beyond his flamboyant style to focus on the concerns of popular social and political... -
Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy" by Steve Ellner 9780742554566
RRP: $79.80$72.51This authoritative book offers a comprehensive assessment of contemporary Venezuela. Analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of Hugo Chavez, leading scholars move beyond his flamboyant style to focus on the concerns of popular social and political... -
Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues by Julie Cupples 9781786606402
RRP: $235.20$224.60In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real... -
It's the Kd, Stupid! Practical Observation Concerning U.S. Drug Policy and Plan Columbia by Penny Hill Press Inc 9781523223664
RRP: $27.20$22.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523223664Author Penny Hill Press IncFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought: An Anthology by Ivan Marquez 9780742539921
RRP: $100.80$99.23Latin America has produced an impressive body of sociopolitical work, yet these important texts have never been readily available to a wider audience. This anthology offers the first serious, broad-ranging collection of English translations of... -
Dangerous Passage: Central America in Crisis and the Exodus of Unaccompanied Minors by Committee on Foreign Relations United St 9781514267257
RRP: $37.70$31.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514267257Author Committee on Foreign Relations United StFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher... -
Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective by Steve Ellner 9781538141564
RRP: $73.50$68.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSteve Ellner was professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, and is now associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. His... -
Bolsonarismo: The Global Origins and Future of Brazil’s Far Right by Fernando Brancoli 9781978838550
RRP: $50.38$34.90Bolsonarismo: The Global Origins and Future of Brazil’s Far Right documents the rise of the far-right alliance that emerged in Brazil in 2020 around the figure of former president Jair Bolsonaro. Unlike a cohesive organization with uniform practices,... -
Growth, Employment, and Equity: The Impact of the Economic Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean by Barbara Stallings 9780815780878
RRP: $41.98$36.98In the last ten to fifteen years, the Latin American and Caribbean region has undergone the most significant transformation of economic policy since World War II. Through a series of structural reforms, an increasing number of countries have moved from...