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Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean

"This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Car…

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Elizabeth S Manley, Elizabeth Manley
Imagining the Tropics

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the indus…

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

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Elizabeth S Manley, Elizabeth Manley
Imagining the Tropics

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the indus…

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Amanda Bellows
The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

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Gabe Gutierrez
The Island

NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez offers a forceful, necessary exposé on the precarious realities and politics of modern Puerto Rico, detailing the decade of financial exploitation,…

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The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies

The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies examines the remarkable transformation of the Central Andes and the tropical Amazon beginning around 7000 BCE, when the Indigenous inhabitants be…

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The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors argue that the Mexican-American War (1846--1848) was a formative experience for the more than three hundred future Civil …

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Roberto Saba
American Mirror

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and Brazil In the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former ens…

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Natalie Lauren Belisle
Caribbean Inhospitality

The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren…

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Natalie Lauren Belisle
Caribbean Inhospitality

Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean's reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinemat…

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Volker Weidermann
Brennendes Licht

Anna Seghers' Jahre im mexikanischen Exil - fulminant erzählt von Volker Weidermann1941: Als Anna Seghers die Flucht aus Europa gelingt, ahnt sie nicht, dass die Jahre in Mexiko ihr Leben entscheidend prä…

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Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
Roads to Prosperity and Ruin

In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Pisté, gateway to the famed Chichén Itzá archeological site, would be circumvented by the Tren Maya commuter rail megap…

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Benjamin H Bradlow
Urban Power

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most exclud…

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Alejandro Olayo-Méndez
Humanitarianism from Below

Challenges the definition of humanitarian aid Aside from being one of the most important migration corridors in the world, Mexico is becoming an immigrant destination itself, with more and more migrants d…

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Dan La Botz
Riding with the Revolution

Riding with the Revolution tells the gripping story of American radicals and revolutionaries who stood in solidarity with the Mexican Revolution.A towering work of historical scholarship, this book is bot…

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Darién J Davis
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture presents a nuanced transnational analysis of the development, production, reception, and legacy of the 1958 movie Black Orpheus . It highlight…

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Darién J Davis
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture presents a nuanced transnational analysis of the development, production, reception, and legacy of the 1958 movie Black Orpheus . It highlight…

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Lori A Flores
Awaiting Their Feast

Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and im…

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Lina-Maria Murillo
Fighting for Control

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determin…

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