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Open Veins of Latin America
Author | : Eduardo Galeano |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0853459908 |
[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover.
Latin America and the Illusion of Peace
Author | : David R. Mares |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2018-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351224409 |
This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin Americas contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of Latin America as a region of peace means that each time the use of force rises to the level of global attention (e.g., Ecuador-Peru 1995 or Colombia-Ecuador 2008) analysts and the press ask, "how could that happen here?" Yet the official uses of military force in interstate relations are significantly more prevalent than most analysts within and outside the region understand, and the region is facing new and potentially destabilizing challenges. It is the contention of this book that mitigating the threat raised by militarized interstate relations requires understanding the various ways in which military force can be employed short of war; this in turn requires illuminating the decision making process that produces militarization of a disagreement, considering options for dissuading the decision makers from choosing to militarize and limiting escalations when militarization does occur.
South America
Author | : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : |
This book describes a journey through western and southern South America from Panama to Argentina and Brazil via the Straits of Magellan.
How We Affect Latin America's Daily Life
Author | : William J. Dangaix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781331373766 |
Excerpt from How We Affect Latin America's Daily Life: Latin American, No; 2 If the United States is to hold its war-time lead in Latin America's foreign trade, our business men and our public must know more and think straighter about our ability to serve Latin American countries and our growing need for their foods and raw materials suitable for our manufactures. To give the basic facts about our present and possible future relations with Latin America is the purpose of the two pamphlets which the Institute for Public Service has persuaded Mr. William J. Dangaix to write from his personal travels and studies. In the present volume, How We Affect Latin America's Daily Life, many startling facts are given, such as that the West Indies' per capita trade with us was in 1918 four times that of Great Britain in 1913; Argentine's nearly five times that of France; Brazil's nearly twice that of Sweden; Cuba's twenty-six times that of Germany; Chile's three times that of Belgium. Will the population of Latin America grow up to her almost limitless natural resources? Are we her logical trading center? How can we earn continued leadership in the world trade of our neighbors to the south? What mistakes must we stop making? What are the encouraging evidences that we have profited from past mistakes? These and similar questions are answered by Mr. Dangaix in the two readable, definitely instructive pamphlets, How Latin America Affects Our Daily Life and How We Affect Latin America's Daily Life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Violent Democracies in Latin America
Author | : Enrique Desmond Arias |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2010-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822392038 |
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of violence contrasts starkly with governmental efforts to extend civil, political, and legal rights to all citizens, and it is invoked as evidence of the failure of Latin American countries to achieve true democracy. The contributors to this collection take the more nuanced view that violence is not a social aberration or the result of institutional failure; instead, it is intimately linked to the institutions and policies of economic liberalization and democratization. The contributors—anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians—explore how individuals and institutions in Latin American democracies, from the rural regions of Colombia and the Dominican Republic to the urban centers of Brazil and Mexico, use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice. They describe the lived realities of citizens and reveal the historical foundations of the violence that Latin America suffers today. One contributor examines the tightly woven relationship between violent individuals and state officials in Colombia, while another contextualizes violence in Rio de Janeiro within the transnational political economy of drug trafficking. By advancing the discussion of democratic Latin American regimes beyond the usual binary of success and failure, this collection suggests more sophisticated ways of understanding the challenges posed by violence, and of developing new frameworks for guaranteeing human rights in Latin America. Contributors: Enrique Desmond Arias, Javier Auyero, Lilian Bobea, Diane E. Davis, Robert Gay, Daniel M. Goldstein, Mary Roldán, Todd Landman, Ruth Stanley, María Clemencia Ramírez
Nazis and Good Neighbors
Author | : Max Paul Friedman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2003-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521822466 |
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Latin America
Author | : John Ward |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : 1134368313 |
Provides an introduction to the economic and political history of the region in the last half century.
The Troubled Continent
Author | : Douglas Arnold Hyde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Land reform |
ISBN | : |
Citizens of Fear
Author | : Katherine Goldman |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813530352 |
Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 thousand people die violently each year, and one out of three citizens have been directly or indirectly victimized by violence. Citizens of Fear, in part, assembles survey results of social scientists who document the pervasiveness of violence. But the numbers tell only part of the story.