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paperback. This title is a detailed examination of social interaction in the city of Chihuahua, a major silver mining center of colonial Mexico. Founded at the beginning of the 18th century, the city attracted people from all over New Spain, all summoned by the voices of the mines of Chihuahua. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804741682
- ISBN
- 9780804741682
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. This is part of a three-volume collection which provides information on innovative development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa that have actually worked. The 50 cases presented illustrate a wide spectrum of economic and environmental policy and practice. Editor(s): Khor, Martin; Lin, Lim Li; Lim Li Lin. Num Pages: 272 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KL; GTF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400. Library markings to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains in a good to very good condition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Zed Books
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KLJ0006506
- ISBN
- 9781842771334
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Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This is part of a three-volume collection which provides information on innovative development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa that have actually worked. The 50 cases presented illustrate a wide spectrum of economic and environmental policy and practice. Editor(s): Khor, Martin; Lin, Lim Li; Lim Li Lin. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KL; GTF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416. Library markings to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains in a good to very good condition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 266
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KLJ0006552
- ISBN
- 9781842771297
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Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services). This book reviews Costa Rica's experience as one of the few successful cases of double incorporation in the periphery. Series: Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308412
- ISBN
- 9781137308412
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. Series: Latin American Originals. Num Pages: 112 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1QDAK; HRKP; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271048802
- ISBN
- 9780271048802
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.00
€ 33.99
€ 27.00
Paperback. On his return to the village of Chipaya, the author learned that a group of Uru Indians, believed to be sorcerers and vampires, was being incarcerated and tortured. This study examines relations between the Urus and the region's dominant ethnic groups. Translator(s): Volk, Carol. Num Pages: 164 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226867649
- ISBN
- 9780226867649
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.88
€ 30.99
€ 24.88
Paperback. Dona Marina (La Malinche).. Pocahontas.. Sacagawea - their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds. This title investigates the many roles played by go-betweens in the colonization of sixteenth-century Brazil. Num Pages: 391 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712768
- ISBN
- 9780292712768
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.08
€ 37.99
€ 35.08
Hardback. The impacts of globalization and information technology are examined in this text in terms of growth and productivity, poverty and income distribution, and employment. The experiences of Africa, East and Southeast Africa, South Asia and Latin America in the era of globalization are discussed. Editor(s): Bhalla, A. S. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1HFG; 1KLS; GTF; JPS; KCL; KCM; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333728147
- ISBN
- 9780333728147
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Condition: New
€ 194.12
€ 194.12
Hardcover. In its comparison of two major emerging nations, India and Brazil, this book approaches the subject through an innovative theoretical combination of developmental states theory and theories of the changing nature of global capitalism. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KLSB; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202719
- ISBN
- 9780230202719
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Instead of viewing globalization and nation states as two separate and opposed domains of theorization and politics, this volume contextualizes US borders within global processes that are reconstituting the relationship between nation states and private corporations at the site of US borders. Editor(s): Sadowski-Smith, Claudia. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294830
- ISBN
- 9780312294830
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Condition: New
€ 53.92€ 46.34
€ 53.92
€ 46.34
Paperback. This volume presents research, analysis and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involement of Mayan communities in national development; the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions; and other issues. Editor(s): Chase-Dunn, Christopher; Amaro, Nelson; Jonas, Susanne. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; GTF; JFFS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508675
- ISBN
- 9780742508675
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Condition: New
€ 74.88
€ 74.88
Hardcover. This volume considers the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently dominant in contact with other languages. But how contested is its hegemony and how far does it threaten other languages? How are these other minoritized languages faring in a world of few strong, global languages? Editor(s): Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stewart, Miranda. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 1KL; 2ADS; CFB; JFFS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230000186
- ISBN
- 9780230000186
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Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Paperback. Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which have allowed East Asia to take advantage of the trade, financial, and technological impact of a more globalized economy to support its development, while Latin America has not. Num Pages: 292 pages, 22 black & white tables, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KL; KCG; KCM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137538543
- ISBN
- 9781137538543
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Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120471
- ISBN
- 9780230120471
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Condition: New
€ 53.92€ 47.31
€ 53.92
€ 47.31
Considering economic and political forces, flows of people and materials, and frames that define cultural and market situations as they play out in the artisan communities of these two countries, Wherry uncovers how authentic folk tradition is capitalized or created. Series: Themes in Global Social Change. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13, 6 black & white halftones, 5 black & white line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 1KLCR; AFT; JFFS; KND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887949
- ISBN
- 9780801887949
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Condition: New
€ 74.53
€ 74.53
Hardcover. Foreign Direct Investment from emerging economies reached $130 billion in 2005, the highest level ever recorded. The number of multinationals from emerging economies in the global Fortune 500 has increased from 19 in 1990 to 47 in 2005, with about ten of them coming from Latin America. This book focuses on understanding this new phenomenon. Series: Insead Business Press. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; KJK; KJVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219960
- ISBN
- 9780230219960
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Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Paperback. Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. This book examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region. Editor(s): Gutmann, Matthew C.; Lesser, Jeffrey. Series: Global Square. Num Pages: 376 pages, 4 maps, 30 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JM; HBJK; JFFN; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520277731
- ISBN
- 9780520277731
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.82
€ 37.99
€ 32.82
Hardback. Focusing on the biodiversity of Costa Rica, the contributors to this book demonstrate the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to enhance conservation efforts. They give an overview of the spatial nature of conservation and management and the current status of digital mapping in Costa Rica. Editor(s): Savitsky, Basil G.; Lacher, Jr. Thomas E.; Lacher, T.E. Series: Biology and Resource Management Series. Num Pages: 278 pages, 73 illus, 28 photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; RGW; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 953.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231100267
- ISBN
- 9780231100267
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Condition: New
€ 93.72€ 72.38
€ 93.72
€ 72.38
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814720783
- ISBN
- 9780814720783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.43
€ 32.99
€ 29.43
Hardcover. Geopiracy is a study of the 'Bowman expeditions'-a project through which geographers, with funding from the US Army, are mapping the 'human terrain' of foreign lands. Wainwright offers a critique of human geography today that draws on contemporary social theory to raise unsettling questions about the nature of geography's disciplinary formation. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JPA; KCP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301734
- ISBN
- 9781137301734
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardback. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, the author tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923956
- ISBN
- 9780226923956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.41€ 82.46
€ 98.41
€ 82.46
Paperback. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, the author tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923963
- ISBN
- 9780226923963
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.59
€ 36.99
€ 29.59
hardcover. Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804756488
- ISBN
- 9780804756488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.58
€ 150.58
Hardcover. Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120853
- ISBN
- 9780230120853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.92€ 47.12
€ 53.92
€ 47.12