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The World of Latin America Series
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Latin America in the World
Author: Antonia Garcia-RodriguezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317509641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to Latin America. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Latin American history; important historical narratives; and the region’s languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support and guide further independent exploration of the topics at hand. The second half of the book features interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific country or subregion and a particular issue. Each chapter gives a flavor for the cultural distinctiveness of the particular country yet also draws attention to global linkages. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of the larger historical, political, and cultural frameworks that shaped Latin America as we know it today, and of current issues that have relevance in Latin America and beyond.
Latin America at 200
Author: Phillip BerrymanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477308679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Between 2010 and 2025, most of the countries of Latin America will commemorate two centuries of independence, and Latin Americans have much to celebrate at this milestone. Most countries have enjoyed periods of sustained growth, while inequality is showing modest declines and the middle class is expanding. Dictatorships have been left behind, and all major political actors seem to have accepted the democratic process and the rule of law. Latin Americans have entered the digital world, routinely using the Internet and social media. These new realities in Latin America call for a new introduction to its history and culture, which Latin America at 200 amply provides. Taking a reader-friendly approach that focuses on the big picture and uses concrete examples, Phillip Berryman highlights what Latin Americans are doing to overcome extreme poverty and underdevelopment. He starts with issues facing cities, then considers agriculture and farming, business, the environment, inequality and class, race and ethnicity, gender, and religion. His survey of Latin American history leads into current issues in economics, politics and governance, and globalization. Berryman also acknowledges the ongoing challenges facing Latin Americans, especially crime and corruption, and the efforts being made to combat them. Based on decades of experience, research, and travel, as well as recent studies from the World Bank and other agencies, Latin America at 200 will be essential both as a classroom text and as an introduction for general readers.
Latin America in the Modern World
Author: Virginia GarrardPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199340224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Latin America in the Modern World covers all regions of Latin America and is the first text to situate modern Latin American history in a global context. While providing in-depth coverage of the history of the three largest Latin American countries - Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina - this textalso offers case studies from almost all of the countries and clearly identifies themes, topics, people, and intellectual currents that help to knit the history of modern Latin America into a coherent category of study.
Real World Latin America, 2nd Edition
Author: Alejandro ReussPublisher:
ISBN: 9781939402110
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World
Author: Jorge I DominguezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317621859
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Handbook of Latin America in the World explains how the Latin American countries have both reacted and contributed to changing international dynamics over the last 30 years. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latin America’s global engagement by looking at specific processes and issues that link governments and other actors, social and economic, within the region and beyond. Leading scholars offer an up-to-date state of the field, theoretically and empirically, thus avoiding a narrow descriptive approach. The Handbook includes a section on theoretical approaches that analyze Latin America’s place in the international political and economic system and its foreign policy making. Other sections focus on the main countries, actors, and issues in Latin America’s international relations. In so doing, the book sheds light on the complexity of the international relations of selected countries, and on their efforts to act multilaterally. The Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World is a must-have reference for academics, researchers, and students in the fields of Latin American politics, international relations, and area specialists of all regions of the world.
Latin America in the World-economy
Author: Roberto Patricio KorzeniewiczPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Latin America In A New World
Author: Abraham F LowenthalPublisher: Westview Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Assessing the Impact of Global Change -- 1. The United States, Latin America, and the World After the Cold War -- 2. Latin America and the End of the Cold War: An Essay in Frustration -- 3. A View from, the Southern Cone -- 4. Latin America and the United States in a Changing World Economy -- Part Two The Prospect for New Partners -- 5. Europe and Latin America in the 1990s -- 6. Russia and Latin America in the 1990s -- 7. Japan and Latin America: New Patterns in the 1990s -- 8. China and Latin America After the Cold War's End -- Part Three Framing Policy Responses -- 9. Regionalism in the Americas -- 10. A New OAS for the New Times -- 11. Cuba in a New World -- 12. Confronting a New World: Latin American Policy Responses -- The New World Reconsidered -- Latin America: Decline and Responsibility -- Brazil in a New World -- Confronting a New World -- 13. Latin America and the United States in a New World: Prospects for Partnership -- List of Acronyms -- About the Contributors -- About the Book -- Index
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Author: Virginia GarrardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199340248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Latin America in the Modern World is the first text to situate the history of Latin American into a wider, global narrative, and it does so without de-emphasizing the distinctive experiences of each of the Latin American countries. Focusing on five themes - state formation; the construction ofnational identity through popular culture and religion; economics and commodities; race, class, and gender; and the environment, and written by leading scholars, Latin America in the Modern World provides students today with an entry point into understanding this vital region. The authors emphasizethe distictive experiences of each of the Latin American countries. Instead of suggesting that all Latin American nations have an interchangeable heritage, the authors seek to clearly identify themes, topics, people and intellectual currents that help to knit the history of modern Latin America intoa coherent category of study. The book would not serve students well if it focused primarily on the history of the three largest countries (Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina) to the neglect of others like the Central American and Andean nations. As a consequence, case studies from almost all of the countries are included at somepoint in the narrative when their history seems to illuminate a theme or idea particularly effectively. In this fashion, students will come to appreciate the great diversity of history and culture within the Latin American region, while simultaneously understanding how it fits into the streams andcurrents of world history and events more broadly.
The World That Latin America Created
Author: Margarita FajardoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674270029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world. After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an intellectual movement that would eventually capture the world. They charged that the systems of trade and finance that bound the world’s nations together were frustrating the economic prospects of Latin America and other regions of the world. Through the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, or CEPAL, the Spanish and Portuguese acronym, cepalinos challenged the orthodoxies of development theory and policy. Simultaneously, they demanded more not less trade, more not less aid, and offered a development agenda to transform both the developed and the developing world. Eventually, cepalinos established their own form of hegemony, outpacing the United States and the International Monetary Fund as the agenda setters for a region traditionally held under the orbit of Washington and its institutions. By doing so, cepalinos reshaped both regional and international governance and set an intellectual agenda that still resonates today. Drawing on unexplored sources from the Americas and Europe, Margarita Fajardo retells the history of dependency theory, revealing the diversity of an often-oversimplified movement and the fraught relationship between cepalinos, their dependentista critics, and the regional and global Left. By examining the political ventures of dependentistas and cepalinos, The World That Latin America Created is a story of ideas that brought about real change.
