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Hardcover. A bilingual (English - Portuguese) edition of William James's diaries and letters. It also includes reproductions of his drawings. The material belongs to the Houghton Archives at Harvard University and is of interest to both William James scholars and Brazilian studies experts. Series: David Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 17 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 264 x 25. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021334
- ISBN
- 9780674021334
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.10
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Paperback. Latin America's widespread poverty and multi-dimensioned inequalities have long perplexed and provoked observers. This title brings together some of the most important results of this work to measure and explain changes in Latin American living standards as far back as the colonial era. Editor(s): Salvatore, Ricardo; Coatsworth, John H.; Challu, Amilcar E. Series: Series on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFSC; KCB; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055858
- ISBN
- 9780674055858
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€ 32.99€ 28.10
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Paperback. Explores the daily lives and shifting racial boundaries between groups as disparate as Apache resistance fighters, Chinese merchants, Mexican-American homesteaders, Midwestern dry farmers, Mormon polygamists, Serbian miners, New York mine managers, and Anglo women reformers. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060531
- ISBN
- 9780674060531
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€ 34.99€ 29.73
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Paperback. Is Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chavez truly revolutionary? Some see the president as a shining knight of socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. But the Chavez government does not fall easily into a seamless fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these distinguished essays make clear. Editor(s): Eastwood, Jonathan; Ponniah, Thomas. Series: Series on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; JPF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674061385
- ISBN
- 9780674061385
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.67
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Hardback. Industrial workers, not just peasants, played an essential role in the Mexican Revolution. Tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the Orizaba Valley, Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato argues convincingly that the revolution cannot be understood apart from the Industrial Revolution, and thus provides a fresh perspective on both transformations. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 348 pages, 4 halftones, 2 maps, 15 graphs, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; KCF; KCM; KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072725
- ISBN
- 9780674072725
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Condition: New
€ 58.45€ 54.03
€ 58.45
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Paperback. In the twelve essays in "Reflections on Memory and Democracy," an interdisciplinary group of contributors explores legacies of authoritarian political regimes noted for repression and injustice, questioning how collective experiences of violence shape memory and its relevance for contemporary social and political life in Latin America. Series: Series on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Edition
- 1/1 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088290
- ISBN
- 9780674088290
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.07
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Paperback. This text fuses political economy and cultural analysis to show that both the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome of death-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 figures, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 1KLCR; 1KLCS; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPHV; JPWQ; KCC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674136496
- ISBN
- 9780674136496
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.06
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Paperback. A cross-disciplinary collection of 12 essays by scholars of the Mexican immigration to the United States. "Crossings" theorizes aspects of recent Mexican immigration that are new and that demarcate this wave of immigration from earlier experiences of the 20th century. Editor(s): Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674177673
- ISBN
- 9780674177673
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.81
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Paperback. This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War." Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416918
- ISBN
- 9780674416918
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.07
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Hardcover. This text examines the domination by the automobile industry of the local economy in Argentina's second largest city, Cordoba, and the role played by the automobile workers' unions which resulted in the 1969 Cordobazo, one of the largest working-class protests in Latin American post-war history. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 line illustrations, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JPWF; KNDR; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674508514
- ISBN
- 9780674508514
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Condition: New
€ 100.89€ 91.05
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Paperback. The 15 essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative method. Editor(s): Coatsworth, John H.; Taylor, Alan M. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16 graphs, 85 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; KCL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674512818
- ISBN
- 9780674512818
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.14
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Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674975354
- ISBN
- 9780674975354
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.10
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Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Ins...
Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
Paperback. A comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, this title explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in nearly a dozen cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of the guerrillas themselves and on national social conditions, it explains why guerrillas emerged strongly in certain countries but not others. Num Pages: 454 pages, 2 figs., 43 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JJP; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691023366
- ISBN
- 9780691023366
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Condition: New
€ 74.57€ 58.07
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Paperback. A study of the emergence of democracy in Latin America. It shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. It argues that democracy can be far more inclusive and can rely on a sphere of autonomous association and argument by citizens. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 28.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691090887
- ISBN
- 9780691090887
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Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.26
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Paperback. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHM; KNDP; RNC; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095578
- ISBN
- 9780691095578
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.69
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Paperback. Takes a different approach to a question central to comparative politics and economics: why do some leaders of fragile democracies attain political success - culminating in reelection victories - when pursuing drastic, painful economic reforms while others see their political careers implode? Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSB; 1KLSR; 1KLSV; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117874
- ISBN
- 9780691117874
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 38.68
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Paperback. Chronicles the evolution of economic expertise in Mexico over the course of the twentieth century. This book shows how internationally credentialed experts came to set the agenda for the Mexican economics profession and to dominate Mexican economic policymaking. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 line illus. 40 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117935
- ISBN
- 9780691117935
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.73
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Paperback. How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers and scientists, going back as far as the ancient Greeks. This book tells the story of one scientist, and his quest for the key to this geological mystery. Num Pages: 336 pages, 36 halftones. 38 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; PDZ; RBGF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126203
- ISBN
- 9780691126203
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
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Paperback. Talks about the subject of race relations in Brazil. This book seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with the traditional and revisionist views of race relations. It seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. Num Pages: 336 pages, 27 line illus. 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127927
- ISBN
- 9780691127927
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
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Paperback. Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for researchers. This work looks at this and other important issues. It also explains the insights gained into how the brain functions and how it can (or cannot) be molded and changed. Series: Science Essentials S. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 halftone. 45 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLS; PSAN; RGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133102
- ISBN
- 9780691133102
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.84
€ 36.99
€ 26.84