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  • by Marc Becker
    £75.49

    Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s, showing how the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin American during the cold war.

  • - Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960
     
    £85.49

    A collection exploring how American women missionaries spread U.S. cultural imperialism along with Protestant Christianity from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, and how their work was received.

  • - Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
    by Jeffrey H. Jackson
    £19.49 - 73.49

    Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates including Jospehine Baker and F Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. This title examines how and why jazz became so widely performed in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and also why it was so controversial.

  • - New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
    by Aviva Chomsky
    £20.99 - 81.99

    An analysis of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital based on case studies in New England and Colombia.

  • - Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
    by Heather Levi
    £19.49 - 73.49

    An insider's account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican version of professional wrestling. It explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. It shows how a sport imported from the US in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican culture.

  • - Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
     
    £23.99

    Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America.

  • by Vicente L. Rafael
    £20.99

    Presents a cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines. This title examines the period from the onset of US colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. It reveals how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the Philippines.

  • - Power, Production, and History in the Americas
     
    £20.99

    Examines the history of banana-producing areas of Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective, asking why different regions developed distinct patterns of property and labor mobilization. This collection also reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages.

  • - Mexico in the Global Sixties
    by Eric Zolov
    £21.99 - 85.49

    Eric Zolov presents a revisionist account of Mexican domestic politics and international relations during the long 1960s, tracing how Mexico emerged from the shadow of FDR's Good Neighbor policy to become a geopolitical player in its own right during the Cold War.

  • - Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
     
    £81.99

    The contributors to this volume reframe the history of the Cold War by focusing on how Latin America used the rivalry between superpowers to create alternative sociomedical pathways.

  • - Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
     
    £20.99

    The contributors to this volume reframe the history of the Cold War by focusing on how Latin America used the rivalry between superpowers to create alternative sociomedical pathways.

  • - Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule
    by Michel Gobat
    £20.99 - 81.99

    Asks how a virulent anti-Americanism developed in a Nicaraguan society that also seemed to embrace Americanization fervently and explores the historical roots of this paradox

  • - Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
     
    £20.99

    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, this book examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. It reconstructs complex webs of relationships and economic processes, highlighting Latin America's central place in the world economy.

  • - Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960
     
    £21.99

    A collection exploring how American women missionaries spread U.S. cultural imperialism along with Protestant Christianity from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, and how their work was received.

  • - Transnational and Comparative Histories
     
    £20.99

    A collection of essays by historians of the Canadian-U.S. border region and those focused on the Mexican-U.S. border, examining borderlands events and phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth.

  • - Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort
    by Paul J. Vanderwood
    £20.99 - 81.99

    The story of the rise and fall of the gambling industry in Tijuana during the Jazz Age opens into a history of the development of that area and Southern California.

  • - Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
    by Daniel Wilkinson
    £19.99

    Author reconstructs the unwritten, taboo history of the Guatemalan civil war, focusing on the peasants who picked coffee, supported guerrilla movements of the 1970s and 1980s, and suffered the most when the military government retaliated with violence.

  • - Transnational and Comparative Histories
     
    £81.99

    A collection of essays by historians of the Canadian-U.S. border region and those focused on the Mexican-U.S. border, examining borderlands events and phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth.

  • - The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920
    by Eileen Suarez Findlay
    £19.99 - 76.99

    Centring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism.

  • - Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint
    by Paul J. Vanderwood
    £20.99 - 76.99

    Investigates the popular canonization of a saint in Tijuana, asking what triggered the devotion and considering local, national, international, geographical, environmental, cultural, and psychological aspects of the event.

  • - Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930
    by Professor Dwayne Roy Winseck & Robert M. Pike
    £85.49

    Filling in a key chapter in communications history, this title offers an examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. It analyzes the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies.

  • - Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
    by Miguel Tinker Salas
    £20.99 - 76.99

    A history of the oil industrys rise in Venezuela focused especially on the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both American and Venezuelan.

  • - U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945
    by Ricardo Donato Salvatore
    £20.99 - 76.99

    Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the history of Latin American studies by tracing its roots back to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how its ties to U.S. business and foreign policy interests helped build an informal empire that supported U.S. economic, technological, and cultural hegemony throughout the hemisphere.

  • - Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
     
    £81.99

    Examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years

  • - Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
    by Micol Seigel
    £20.99 - 81.99

    This chronicle of the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the interwar years shows how that exchange affected both countries ideas of race and nation.

  • - The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
    by Kirsten Weld
    £20.99 - 76.99

    In 2005, human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of Guatemala's National Police. In Paper Cadavers, Kirsten Weld tells the story of the astonishing discovery and rescue of 75 million pages of evidence of state-sponsored crimes, and analyzes the repercussions for both the people and the state of Guatemala.

  • - Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
    by Catherine Ceniza Choy
    £19.49 - 73.49

    Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • - Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
    by Suzana Sawyer
    £19.99 - 76.99

    An ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador

  • - A Watershed Moment?
     
    £18.49

    Within hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, this book asks whether the attacks and their aftermath truly marked a transition in US.

  • - Essays from the North
     
    £20.99

    Offers a mixture of reflexive theoretical essays and interpretative case studies that embrace the challenge of writing a social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and broader arenas of power.

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