Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
Setbacks and Advances in the Modern Latin American Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Pablo A. Baisotti
September 25, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to the economy in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent since the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The collected essays focus on economic ...
Social, Political, and Religious Movements in the Modern Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Pablo A. Baisotti
September 25, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to social, political, and religious movements in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This volume’s ...
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
1st Edition
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By Juan Pablo Scarfi, David M. K. Sheinin
September 25, 2023
What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-American Union, and ...
The Policy of the Ford Administration Toward Cuba: Carrot and Stick
1st Edition
By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
September 25, 2023
This book presents new aspects of the U.S. Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford’s presidency (August 9, 1974‒January 20, 1977). Based in governmental and other sources from the U.S. and Cuba, the book examines how the Ford administration broke with Nixon’s hostile policy when the diplomatic and ...
A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. Baisotti
May 31, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical perspectives for understanding national, regional and global issues from the beginning of the 20th ...
American Divergences in the Great Recession
1st Edition
By Daniele Pompejano
May 31, 2023
Globalization is quite different from internationalization: the by-now global market economy overwhelmed the sovereignty of the old national states. Close to the 2007 crisis, some de-coupling effects were consequent in most developed countries in comparison with the ex-Third World. Latin America ...
Problems and Alternatives in the Modern Americas
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. Baisotti
May 31, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to political processes in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The collected essays focus on ...
Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930: How Fresh and Salted Meat Arrived at the Carioca Table
1st Edition
By Maria-Aparecida Lopes
May 31, 2023
This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s, Rio was Brazil’s economic hub, main industrial city, and prime consumer market. Meat consumption was an indicator of living standards and a matter of public concern. The work unveils that in...
Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America
1st Edition
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By Karen Silva-Torres, Carolina Rozo-Higuera, Daniel S. Leon
May 31, 2023
Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand, from a multidisciplinary perspective, processes of socio-political reconfigurations in the region from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. The Left Turn was the regional shift to ...
The Nixon Administration and Cuba: Continuity and Rupture
1st Edition
By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
January 09, 2023
This book presents a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy that was adopted toward Cuba by the Richard M. Nixon administration between January 20, 1969, and August 8, 1974. Based on governmental, as well as other, sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, this book examines the rupture where the policy ...
The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias
1st Edition
By David T. Orique
January 09, 2023
The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas’s controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition. ...
Translating Cuba: Literature, Music, Film, Politics
1st Edition
By Robert S. Lesman
January 09, 2023
Cuban culture has long been available to English speakers via translation. This study examines the complex ways in which English renderings of Cuban texts from various domains—poetry, science fiction, political and military writing, music, film—have represented, reshaped, or amended original texts....