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Victims of the Chilean Miracle
DIVAn attempt to gauge the impact of Chile's neoliberal reform policies and of the Chilean "economic miracle" on various groups of workers./div
Crises of Democracy
Examines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.
Social Sciences
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Tracing the Veins
"Novel, engaging, and interesting. . . . [Finn] conveys the urgency of understanding the intertwining sources of conflict and struggle in the contemporary world."—Benjamin S. Orlove, University of California, Davis "Finn blends trenchant scholarship and stylistic mastery with exceptional intelligence. If this is not cutting edge, I just wonder what is."—Jean-Paul Dumont, George Mason University
Contested Communities
In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile. Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to r...
Leadership and Global Justice
What does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there? The contributors explore justice in various spheres: citizenship, the marketplace, health, education, and the environment. And they provide creative and constructive moral approaches for evaluating and promoting global justice.
El Partido Democrático de Chile
Este libro reconstruye minuciosamente la trayectoria de la primera organización política popular chilena, el Partido Democrático, desde su nacimiento en 1887 hasta la instauración de la dictadura de Ibáñez en 1927, período durante el cual alcanzó su máxima influencia antes de iniciar su largo y definitivo ocaso. Presenta una visión de conjunto, a la vez que detallada, de la época más importante de la vida de este partido, ofreciendo explicaciones tanto sobre su desarrollo y auge como sobre su integración al sistema parlamentarista, su creciente corrupción, distanciamiento con los movimientos sociales emergentes en la segunda y tercera década del siglo XX e inevitable decadencia.
Ambientes múltiples
En este libro, Raúl Allard recorre un período de cinco décadas y muestra los diversos ambientes en los cuales le correspondió actuar en Valparaíso, Chile y América Latina, y además entrega testimonios inéditos sobre varios hechos históricos La perspectiva es la de un actor que ha desempeñado cargos superiores en «ambientes múltiples», destacándose los orientados a la Reforma Universitaria, educación general y superior, nuevas políticas en los noventa, cultura y patrimonio, políticas culturales, relaciones internacionales a nivel global y latinoamericano, gobierno nacional, regional, provincial y local, la descentralización, comercio internacional, aduanas y apertura al Pacífico. Estos ensayos constituyen no solo un interesante aporte a nuestra memoria histórica, sino también una contribución directa al debate sobre Chile, la Región de Valparaíso y la comprensión de la dimensión internacional y nacional de nuestro desarrollo en el último medio siglo.
Chile Since Independence
Chile Since Independence brings together four chapters from Volumes III, V and VIII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Chile since independence. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.
