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Natalie Lauren Belisle
Caribbean Inhospitality

Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinemat…

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Benjamin H Bradlow
Urban Power

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excl…

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Volker Weidermann
Brennendes Licht

Anna Seghers' Jahre im mexikanischen Exil - fulminant erzählt von Volker Weidermann 1941: Als Anna Seghers die Flucht aus Europa gelingt, ahnt sie nicht, dass die Jahre in Mexiko ihr Leben entscheidend p…

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Alejandro Olayo-Méndez
Humanitarianism from Below

Challenges the definition of humanitarian aid Aside from being one of the most important migration corridors in the world, Mexico is becoming an immigrant destination itself, with more and more migrants …

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Lori A Flores
Awaiting Their Feast

"Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and m…

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Joana Salém Vasconcelos,
Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution

In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin America's underdevelo…

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Darién J Davis
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture presents a nuanced transnational analysis of the development, production, reception, and legacy of the 1958 movie Black Orpheus. It highlights…

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Darién J Davis
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture presents a nuanced transnational analysis of the development, production, reception, and legacy of the 1958 movie Black Orpheus. It highlights…

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Lina-Maria Murillo
Fighting for Control

"The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juâarez have confronted various interest groups determ…

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China and Taiwan in Latin America and the Caribbean

The book provides an examination of the evolution of China and Taiwan after 1949. This starting point situates the contestation for power between the two entities in the region after Taipei was recognized…

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Christopher Chávez
Isle of Rum

Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing …

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Christopher Chávez
Isle of Rum

Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing …

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Peter J Kalliney
The Aesthetic Cold War

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic C…

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Luis L. Schenoni
Bringing War Back In

"This book offers new insights on how war made the state. It shows that wars can affect state-building trajectories long after they end and demonstrates that the relative capacity of Latin American states…

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Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region

The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material objects, architecture, ancestral beings, deities, and written monuments are fully explored in Faces of Rulership in th…

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Bryan Mccann
Rio de Janeiro

"Through ten pivotal moments, Rio de Janeiro brings a sophisticated understanding of the city's history to a broad general audience. Each moment is deeply founded in extensive research and deep knowledge …

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The Interior

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.

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South America

This two-volume encyclopedia provides entries on the key peoples, events, industries, and landmarks essential to the history of South American countries from European contact to their independence.

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Doug Yarrington
Profitable Offices

A New Explanation for the Foundations of the Modern Venezuelan State

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José Juan Pérez Meléndez
Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil

"This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between…

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