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Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, 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 between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
This book reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant domestication: Mesoamerica. Leading scholars and key research groups in Mexico discuss essential topics as well as contributions from international research groups that have conducted studies on ethnobotany and domestication of plants in the region. Such a convocation will produce an interesting discussion about future investigation and conservation of regional human cultures, genetic resources, and cultural and ecological processes that are critical for global sustainability.
Costa Rica has been largely recognized as a democratic and politically stable country in a region (Central America) characterized by instability, dictatorships, and social inequality. Several social and institutional problems have risen during the last decades, but the country still maintains good social and health indicators. Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Costa Rica.
Hay pocos actos más definitorios en la constitución de un campo de conocimiento que una historia que lo aborde: los autores de este libro, coordinado por dos especialistas destacados en historia urbana de América Latina, son muy conscientes de ese rol fundacional, al tiempo que su experiencia en esa rama tan particular de la historia que se centra en la ciudad, pasible de múltiples enfoques resultantes de tantas disciplinas involucradas en ella, los lleva a no abandonar la duda existencial: ¿constituye la historia urbana un campo especifico? El libro es ya una respuesta afirmativa, pero quizás lo que mejor defina los trabajos que reúne es la productividad de la dialéctica entre ese empeño y la duda sistemática, porque es esa inestabilidad esencial lo que obliga a volver a interrogarse creativamente cada vez sobre el objeto, la ciudad y su historia, pulsando una tensión conceptual que le da a esta disciplina su carácter experimental, tan auspicioso y renovador.
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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.