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Families Torn Apart
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Dante's World
Dante Magoro is a young African boy who finds himself attending an English boarding school in the early 1980's. It is a time of change for England, the school and, most of all, for Dante. With some help from his friends, Dante is able to negotiate the difficult path to growing up.
From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca
From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca aims at finally setting Mexican history free of stereotypes about the southern state of Oaxaca, long portrayed as a traditional and backward society resistant to the forces of modernization and marginal to the Revolution. Chassen-López challenges this view of Oaxaca as a negative mirror image of modern Mexico, presenting in its place a much more complex reality. Her analysis of the confrontations between Mexican liberals’ modernizing projects and Oaxacan society, especially indigenous communal villages, reveals not only conflicts but also growing linkages and dependencies. She portrays them as engaging with and transforming each other in an ongoing process of contestation, negotiation, and compromise.
Blood and Debt
What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today in regions as varied as the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa. The book's illuminating review of the relatively peaceful history of Latin America from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries reveals the lack of two critical prerequisites needed for war: a political and military culture oriented toward international violence, and the state institutional capacity to carry it out. Using innovative new data such as tax receipts, naming of streets and public monuments, and conscription records, the author carefully examines how war affected the fiscal development of the state, the creation of national identity, and claims to citizenship. Rather than building nation-states and fostering democratic citizenship, he shows, war in Latin America destroyed institutions, confirmed internal divisions, and killed many without purpose or glory.
LDC Debt Report
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Paraguai: A República Camponesa (1810 - 1865)
O processo de grandes transformações que agitou toda a bacia do rio da Prata em meados do século 19 e que teve seu ponto de inflexão na Guerra da Tríplice Aliança (1864-1870) deve ser analisado, para a sua real compreensão, no contexto de um conjunto de determinantes históricas, entre as quais está a consolidação da nação paraguaia. Com rigor, produto de profundo conhecimento do tema, mas através de um relato ameno e agradável, o historiador Mário Maestri nos apresenta no presente estudo - Paraguai: a república camponesa: 1810-1860 - latifundiários, caudilhos, escravos, comerciantes, a exploração indígena, membros da igreja, a ditadura francista, e, fundamentalmente, o c...
Technofuturos
Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La--Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations of power, and the complicated geographies of desire. By analyzing the discursive, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of knowledge, this book contests and reconstructs Latina/o studies. Technofuturos is a captivating and sophisticated read that will appeal to scholars of Latina/o studies and those interested in postcolonial critique.
