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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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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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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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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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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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Gregory Makoff
Default

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt lawArgentina's 2001 default on $100 billion in bonds and the messy litigation that followed has had an outsized impact…

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China and Taiwan in Latin America and the Caribbean

The book provides an examination of the evolution of China and Taiwan after 1949. This starting point situates the contestation for power between the two entities in the region after Taipei was recognized…

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Christopher Chávez
Isle of Rum

Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing …

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Christopher Chávez
Isle of Rum

Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing …

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Peter J Kalliney
The Aesthetic Cold War

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Col…

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Josep Manuel Peramàs,
A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic (1793)

Josep Manuel Peramàs's A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic, 1793 analyzes Guaraní-Jesuit communities and aspects of civic experience such as weddings, public…

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Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region

The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material objects, architecture, ancestral beings, deities, and written monuments are fully explored in Faces of Rulership in th…

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Maria Fernanda Escallón
Becoming Heritage

"Since the late twentieth century, multicultural reforms to benefit minorities have swept through Latin America, however, in Colombia ethno-racial inequality remains rife. "Becoming Heritage&quo…

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Puerto Rico

"A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, …

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