Handbook of Latin American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Title Handbook of Latin American Studies PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 808
Release 2007
Genre Latin America
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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.

Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
Title Race and Nation in Modern Latin America PDF eBook
Author Nancy P. Appelbaum
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 358
Release 2003-11-20
Genre History
ISBN 0807862312

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This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time across Latin America's political landscapes. Framing the themes and questions explored in the volume, the editors' introduction also provides an overview of the current state of the interdisciplinary literature on race and nation-state formation. Essays on the postindependence period in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Peru consider how popular and elite racial constructs have developed in relation to one another and to processes of nation building. Contributors also examine how ideas regarding racial and national identities have been gendered and ask how racialized constructions of nationhood have shaped and limited the citizenship rights of subordinated groups. The contributors are Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lillian Guerra, Anne S. Macpherson, Aims McGuinness, Gerardo Renique, James Sanders, Alexandra Minna Stern, and Barbara Weinstein.

Handbook of South American Archaeology

Handbook of South American Archaeology
Title Handbook of South American Archaeology PDF eBook
Author Helaine Silverman
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 1228
Release 2008-04-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780387752280

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Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.

The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence

The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence
Title The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence PDF eBook
Author V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 510
Release 2003-08-04
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521532747

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A comprehensive balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic development in Latin America, first published in 2003.

An Environmental History of Latin America

An Environmental History of Latin America
Title An Environmental History of Latin America PDF eBook
Author Shawn William Miller
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 385
Release 2007-08-27
Genre History
ISBN 1316224325

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A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the story. However, characters such as hookworms, whales, hurricanes, bananas, dirt, butterflies, guano, and fungi make more than cameo appearances. Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's role in history. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.

A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs

A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs
Title A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs PDF eBook
Author Tom Jones
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1955
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780816601103

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A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs was first published in 1955. This bibliography covers articles in 229 nineteenth-century periodicals in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch. The bibliographical entries total 9,939, of which more than 6,200 are original entries and the remainder, cross references. The entries are grouped under 11 major geographic headings, with nine subheadings on such subjects as agriculture, commerce, and communications under each. The bibliography provides a reference key to a large and important class of source materials for the economic history of South America. Since the period covered precedes the first publication of the Poole Index and the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, the material is not to be found in these standard indexes.

Bibliotheca Americana

Bibliotheca Americana
Title Bibliotheca Americana PDF eBook
Author Joseph Sabin
Publisher
Pages 590
Release 1873
Genre America
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