South America
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The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Crime and Revolution [Hardback]
David Smilde (Editor); Veronica Zubillaga (Editor); Rebecca Hanson (Editor)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947127
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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Crime and violence soared in twenty-first-century Venezuela even as poverty and inequality decreased, contradicting the conventional wisdom that these are the underlying causes of violence. The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela explains the rise of... .... Learn More -
Faith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil [Paperback]
Massimo Sciarretta (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773754
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. If in Latin America the denial of identity and rights has for centuries gone... .... Learn More -
Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil [Hardback]
Fernando Lara (Author); Ana Paula Koury (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780822947134
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequali... .... Learn More -
Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body [Hardback]
Daniel Silva (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822947110
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Since the late 20th-century, mainstream popular culture in Brazil has developed an intimate relationship with fitness culture
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Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia [Hardback]
Christopher Courtheyn (Author)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947141
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet, it also happens at the grassroots level where communities envision and create peace on their own. The San José de Apartadó Peace Community of small-... .... Learn More -
Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin America [Hardback]
Monica Moreno Figueroa (Editor); Peter Wade (Editor)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947103
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have hampered the acknowledgement of racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist reforms have increased recognition of Black and Indigenous ... .... Learn More -
Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 [Hardback]
Paula Park (Author)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947097
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States. Its links to Latin/o America are longstanding and complex. Intercolonial Intimacies interrogates the legacy of the Spanish Empire and the cultural hegemony ... .... Learn More -
Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro [Hardback]
Lorraine Leu (Author)
£32.50ISBN: 9780822946007
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil’s first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition white... .... Learn More -
Conscript Nation: Coercion and Consent in the Bolivian Barracks [Hardback]
Elizabeth Shesko (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946021
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Military service in Bolivia has long been compulsory for young men. This service plays an important role in defining identity, citizenship, masculinity, state formation, and civil-military relations in twentieth-century Bolivia. The project of obl... .... Learn More -
New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas [Paperback]
Katerina Harvati (Editor); Gerhard Jäger (Editor); Hugo Reyes-Centeno (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9783935751285
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: DFG Center for Advanced Studies
Volume: 2
The mode and timing of the peopling of the Americas remain highly debated topics, with diverse – and sometimes conflicting – conclusions reached by the scholars from different disciplines. In this first installment of the DFG Center for Advanced S... .... Learn More
