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  1. The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela

    The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Crime and Revolution [Hardback]

    David Smilde (Editor); Veronica Zubillaga (Editor); Rebecca Hanson (Editor)

    £40.50

    ISBN: 9780822947127
    Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
    Series: Pitt Latin American Series
    Not yet published - available for pre-order
    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
  2. Faith in Democracy

    Faith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil [Paperback]

    Massimo Sciarretta (Author)

    £24.99

    ISBN: 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
  3. Street Matters

    Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil [Hardback]

    Fernando Lara (Author); Ana Paula Koury (Author)

    £33.00

    ISBN: 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
  4. Embodying Modernity

    Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body [Hardback]

    Daniel Silva (Author)

    £39.50

    ISBN: 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
    face=Calibri>– a vast, fluid, and pervasive network of images and commodities, bodies of knowledge,... .... Learn More
  5. Community of Peace

    Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia [Hardback]

    Christopher Courtheyn (Author)

    £40.50

    ISBN: 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
  6. Against Racism

    Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin America [Hardback]

    Monica Moreno Figueroa (Editor); Peter Wade (Editor)

    £40.50

    ISBN: 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
  7. Intercolonial Intimacies

    Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 [Hardback]

    Paula Park (Author)

    £40.50

    ISBN: 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
  8. Defiant Geographies

    Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro [Hardback]

    Lorraine Leu (Author)

    £32.50

    ISBN: 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
  9. Conscript Nation

    Conscript Nation: Coercion and Consent in the Bolivian Barracks [Hardback]

    Elizabeth Shesko (Author)

    £35.00

    ISBN: 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
  10. New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas

    New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas [Paperback]

    Katerina Harvati (Editor); Gerhard Jäger (Editor); Hugo Reyes-Centeno (Editor)

    £28.00

    ISBN: 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

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