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Paperback. Examining the relationship between Church and state in Latin America, this book explains why Catholic leaders in some countries opposed dictatorial rule, and why many did not. Using evidence from 12 countries, it reveals the connection between religious competition and progressive Catholicism. Num Pages: 278 pages, 2 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HRCC7; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226293851
- ISBN
- 9780226293851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.81
€ 38.99
€ 30.81
Paperback. In Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes a new paradigm for economic development in Mexico and Cuba that is predicated on the development of trust among the state, society, and each nation's resident Chinese diaspora communities, lest they get left behind in the twenty-first century economy. Num Pages: 280 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360735
- ISBN
- 9780822360735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Essays in this volume deal with the historical, linguistic, and ideological legacy of the Spanish Empire and its language in the New World. Editor(s): Echavez-Solano, Nelsy; Mendez, Kenya C. Dworkin Y. Series: Hispanic Issues Series. Num Pages: 346 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; CFF; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826515667
- ISBN
- 9780826515667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.30
€ 123.30
Hardcover. The political conflict during Mexico's Reform era in the mid-nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class. As Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico develops the story of this struggle, the role of one key rebel, Manuel Lozada, comes into focus. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826520449
- ISBN
- 9780826520449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.13
€ 101.13
hardcover. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, this book explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production. Num Pages: 258 pages, 21 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCH; RGBL; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- SKU
- V9781402069765
- ISBN
- 9781402069765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.68
€ 127.68
Num Pages: 288 pages, 1272 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AFKG; WCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 307 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1956.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764331404
- ISBN
- 9780764331404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.06€ 70.29
€ 95.06
€ 70.29
hardcover. Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804756488
- ISBN
- 9780804756488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.73
€ 156.73
hardcover. This volume offers an illuminating overview of the work of a pioneering and highly distinguished scholar of Latin American social and cultural history and philology. The "old and new" of the subtitle is meant literally; the first piece was written in 1968, the last in 1998. Four of the twelve essays are published here for the first time. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 line diagrams 1 table 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3J; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 695.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738095
- ISBN
- 9780804738095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.35
€ 177.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816626779
- ISBN
- 9780816626779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Paperback. An issue facing transitional democracies around the world has been what to do with the security apparatuses left over from the old regime. This text explores this using true stories of torture victims in Brazil and Uruguay who, faced with the paralysis of the new regime, settled their own accounts. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1KLSU; BG; JHM; JPH; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226893945
- ISBN
- 9780226893945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.35
€ 30.99
€ 24.35
Paperback. This is a thorough assessment of the gripping yet gruesome topic of Latin American violence. Written by leading scholars from the Americas and Europe, this is the most comprehensive study of the subject to date and it focuses specifically on state-supported murder and violence. Editor(s): Johnson, Eric A.; Salvatore, Ricardo; Spierenburg, Pieter. Series: Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFFE; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118657355
- ISBN
- 9781118657355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.72
€ 27.72
Hardcover. In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era. Editor(s): Prevost, Gary; Vanden, Harry E.; Campos, Carlos Oliva; Ayerbe, Luis Fernando. Num Pages: 218 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 1KL; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379511
- ISBN
- 9781137379511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Paperback. Explaining why Eurocentric ethical paradigms are inadequate in their attempts to liberate oppressed communities, this title looks at three major ethicists of the twentieth century - Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Stanley Hauerwas - and how ethics is presented in US culture wars, from the Religious Right to the Religious Left. Series: New Perspectives on Latina/o Religion. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602582941
- ISBN
- 9781602582941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.04
€ 45.04
Hardback. Series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KL; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBTS; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403975768
- ISBN
- 9781403975768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.28
€ 65.28
Hardcover. Editor(s): Chisolm, Lance H. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSV; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606926819
- ISBN
- 9781606926819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.05€ 85.55
€ 124.05
€ 85.55
Hardcover. Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. The author uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide a coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; JFSL4; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532684
- ISBN
- 9780226532684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.73€ 76.88
€ 92.73
€ 76.88
Hardback. This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic-change. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPK; DSBH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756624
- ISBN
- 9780804756624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.44
€ 142.44
Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326243
- ISBN
- 9780822326243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.87
€ 30.99
€ 27.87
Paperback. Translator(s): Krause, Krystin; Bird, Holly; Mainwaring, Scott. Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSL4; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268019723
- ISBN
- 9780268019723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.62
€ 44.99
€ 39.62
Hardcover. This book is an exploration of 3000 years of Tiwanakan history, from the first appearance of their settlement around the shores of Lake Titicaca to their contemporary descendants in the Andes. The author draws on archaeological evidence throughout the region, supplementing this with what can be drawn from later recorded myths and legends. Series: Peoples of America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557861832
- ISBN
- 9781557861832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.48
€ 53.48
Paperback. This book traces the process of self-organization and emergence within Ecuador's Indigenous movement from 1998 to 2008 for the Zapara nationality, one of the smallest Indigenous groups in Ecuador, and explores the complex role that multiculturalism has played in local identity politics. Series: Global Indigenous Politics. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JFSL9; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- SAR Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934691175
- ISBN
- 9781934691175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.57
€ 39.57
Hardcover. In recent years several Latin American countries have adopted a more assertive and autonomous stance in their foreign policy. The growing rejection of neo-liberalism as an ideological dogma seems to have given space to more pragmatic stances in favour of national interests. Editor(s): Gardini, Gian Luca. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110953
- ISBN
- 9780230110953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Paperback. Up the Creek - Holiday reads and travel literature describing John Harrison's Amazon adventure, canoeing up a remote tributary to Brazil's Jari River. The book follows the author's desire to reach the upper limits of the Jari and across the border to French Guiana, describing Amazonian wildlife, bouts of sickness and unexpected encounters. Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature). Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp colour & 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; 3JJPN; WSSN5; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338. An Amazon Adventure. Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature). 288 pages, 8pp colour & 2 maps. Deals with the author's Amazon adventure, an extremely hazardous canoe trip taken just for the hell of it up one of the more obscure tributaries of the Amazon. In this title, the author's tale is full of suspense, humour and descriptions of Amazon wildlife. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; 3JJPN; WSSN5; WTL. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bradt Travel Guides
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841623849
- ISBN
- 9781841623849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.66
€ 17.99
€ 15.66
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFFS; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 257 x 181 x 21. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607418689
- ISBN
- 9781607418689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.94€ 111.61
€ 166.94
€ 111.61