Politics

Migration in the Americas continues unabated. Seeking to improve understanding of the complexity of this phenomenon, this book presents different approaches that are at the root of an immigrant-entrepreneur's decision-making and the implementation of entrepreneurial activity in North and South America.

This book shows that state elites decide to allocate land and natural resource rights to Indigenous people not as a response to human rights activism or democratic pressure, but to build an institutional apparatus that facilitates control over vulnerable territories in remote regions. By titling Indigenous lands, state elites create new institutional arrangements in property that allows for the subordination, monitoring, and management of Indigenous society.

Shows, contrary to the traditional view, that the major authors of German literary realism not only thematized environmental transformation but that it was central to their aesthetics.