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Making the Empire Work
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection cha...
The Colombian Caribbean
This is a study of the role of regions in the development of modern nations in Latin America. Eduardo Posada-Carbo focuses on the Colombian Caribbean between 1870 and 1950. He examines the achievements and shortcomings of arable agriculture and the significance of the livestock industry, the links between town and countryside, the influence of foreign migrants and foreign capital, the relationship between local and national politics, and the extent to which regionalism represented a challenge to the consolidation of the national state in Colombia. This original study opens up the area to scholarly scrutiny, and has wider implications for Latin American historiography.
Pensamiento colombiano del siglo XX
CONTENIDO: Agustín Nieto Caballero / Humberto Quiceno / - Antonio García Nossa / Juan Carlos Villamizar / - Baldomero Sanín Cano / Rubén Sierra / - Camilo Arturo Torres / Javier Ocampo / Ernesto Huhl / Ovidio Delgado / - Estanislao Zuleta / Alberto Valencia / - Gerardo Molina / Darío Acevedo / - Gonzalo Arango / Diego Pineda / - Ignacio Torres Giraldo / Álvaro Oviedo / - Indalecio Liévano Aguirre / Mauricio Archila / - Jorge Gaitán Durán / David Jiménez / - Luis Carlos Galán / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera / - Luis López de Mesa / Carlos Uribe / - Manuel Quintín Lame / Mónica Espinosa / - Marta Traba / Beatriz González / - Nicolás Gómez Dávila / Juan Fernando Mejía / - Rafael María Carrasquilla / Óscar Saldarriaga / - Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda / Ligia Echeverri.
The Latin American Revolutionary Movement
This volume collects the proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 1929 by the South American Secretariat of the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern). The Conference was the first and in some ways only opportunity that communists in Latin America had to engage in a broad discussion of the most important problems and challenges that they faced. The topics that the assembled delegates addressed – including militarism, anti-imperialism, trade union issues, and racial discrimination – were all central to the question of how to organise a strong revolutionary movement. This major documentary collection of the Latin American Communist movement, newly translated into English and with a substantial introduction, remains surprisingly relevant to our world today. With an introduction by Victor Jeifets and Lazar Jeifets.
The Cambridge History of Latin America
This volume examines Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.
The Social Origins of Human Rights
Offering deep insight to the lives of human rights activists in a conflict zone, against the backdrop of major historical changes that shaped Latin America in the twentieth century, this book illuminates the critical role of human rights organizations in bringing violence to public attention and analyzing its causes and consequences.
Liberation Theology from Below
“Here sleeps the Indian Manuel Quintín Lame Chantre, October 7, 1967. He was a man who did not bow his head before injustice.” In the Colombian Andes, Indians wrote that epitaph on the cross above Lame’s grave because he led them in a just struggle against “civilization”: against the “whites” and their system that has oppressed and dehumanized the Indians. The first part of this book is a thorough introduction to Lame’s life, his thought, and his historical context: the world of the Indians of the Colombian Andes. The second part of the book contains “Los Pensamientos,” a work written by Lame about a series of theological themes: nature, injustice, God, rebellion, oppres...
South American Cinema
Originally issued in hardcover in 1996 by Garland Publishing, this important reference work is now available in paperback for a wider audience. A distinguished team of contributors has compiled entries on 140 significant South American feature films from the silent era until 1994. The entries discuss each film's subject matter, critical reception, and social and political contexts, as well as its production, distribution, and exhibition history, including technical credits. The entries are grouped by country and arranged chronologically. Both fiction and documentary films (some no longer in existence) are included, as well as extensive title, name, and subject indexes and glossaries of film and foreign terms.
Estudios interdisciplinarios de las élites en Colombia
Mas allá de identificar y caracterizar a las élites patrias, este libro es un intento de explicar por qué esas personas o grupos han llegado a tan altas cotas de poder político e influencia en las diferentes esferas económicas y sociales del país.
