Author: Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082635369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection of essays is not to write the United States out of the picture but to explore the ways Latin American governments, groups, companies, organizations, and individuals promoted their own interests and perspectives. The book also challenges the tendency among scholars to see the Cold War as a simple clash of “left” and “right.” In various ways, several essays disassemble those categories and explore the complexities of the Cold War as it was experienced beneath the level of great-power relations.
Beyond the Eagle's Shadow
Author: Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082635369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection of essays is not to write the United States out of the picture but to explore the ways Latin American governments, groups, companies, organizations, and individuals promoted their own interests and perspectives. The book also challenges the tendency among scholars to see the Cold War as a simple clash of “left” and “right.” In various ways, several essays disassemble those categories and explore the complexities of the Cold War as it was experienced beneath the level of great-power relations.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082635369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection of essays is not to write the United States out of the picture but to explore the ways Latin American governments, groups, companies, organizations, and individuals promoted their own interests and perspectives. The book also challenges the tendency among scholars to see the Cold War as a simple clash of “left” and “right.” In various ways, several essays disassemble those categories and explore the complexities of the Cold War as it was experienced beneath the level of great-power relations.
Refreshing Pauses
Author: Henry J. Frundt
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
While the crisis in Central America is receiving attention from scholars in a variety of disciplines, few works have focused on the role of nongovernment organizations in reducing levels of violence in that region. This remarkable case study examines the resilient struggle by workers at the Guatemala Coca-Cola bottling plant from 1976-1986, and documents why this union was able to survive within a repressed government to become a key factor in stimulating a larger independent labor movement in the country. Scholars of political sociology, labor studies, and the governments and politics of Central America will do well to read this volume.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
While the crisis in Central America is receiving attention from scholars in a variety of disciplines, few works have focused on the role of nongovernment organizations in reducing levels of violence in that region. This remarkable case study examines the resilient struggle by workers at the Guatemala Coca-Cola bottling plant from 1976-1986, and documents why this union was able to survive within a repressed government to become a key factor in stimulating a larger independent labor movement in the country. Scholars of political sociology, labor studies, and the governments and politics of Central America will do well to read this volume.
Delivering Powerful Speeches
Author: Carolyn Stein
Publisher: Frederick Fell Publishers
ISBN: 9780883910955
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A step-by-step guide for acquiring confident speaking skills, Delivering Powerful Speeches provides the key to delivering a dazzling speech everytime. Readers will learn the techniques to express their ideas with authority, develop leadership and communicate with charisma. Filled with easy steps, charts and exercises to achieve speaking success, this book will eliminate the barriers that inhibit self-expression. The six parts of this book will lead readers to deliver powerful speeches, boost confidence, and it cofers all aspects of public speaking--from a speech at a family function to a professional event.
Publisher: Frederick Fell Publishers
ISBN: 9780883910955
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A step-by-step guide for acquiring confident speaking skills, Delivering Powerful Speeches provides the key to delivering a dazzling speech everytime. Readers will learn the techniques to express their ideas with authority, develop leadership and communicate with charisma. Filled with easy steps, charts and exercises to achieve speaking success, this book will eliminate the barriers that inhibit self-expression. The six parts of this book will lead readers to deliver powerful speeches, boost confidence, and it cofers all aspects of public speaking--from a speech at a family function to a professional event.
Ways of Seeking
Author: Emily Drumsta
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel’s place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel’s place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.
The Regional Review
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Souvenirs of Travel
Author: Susie Champney Clark
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Practical Hints for Pupil Teachers, on Class Management
Author: James Saunders (of Wolverhampton.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows
Author: Ed Bott
Publisher: Que Publishing
ISBN: 9780789724465
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Bott zeroes in on topics, tools and techniques that help intermediate-advanced Windows users become more productive with their PCs. He covers the most important new technologies in this Windows upgrade for consumers, including MP3 audio, cable modems, home networking, scanners and digital cameras, and system utilities. Two-color interior.
Publisher: Que Publishing
ISBN: 9780789724465
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Bott zeroes in on topics, tools and techniques that help intermediate-advanced Windows users become more productive with their PCs. He covers the most important new technologies in this Windows upgrade for consumers, including MP3 audio, cable modems, home networking, scanners and digital cameras, and system utilities. Two-color interior.
Counter-Cola
Author: Amanda Ciafone
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520970942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world’s most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations—liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal—of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers’ rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism’s imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520970942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world’s most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations—liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal—of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers’ rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism’s imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits.