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Hardcover. This text provides a long-term historical assessment of the main features of civil-military relations in this region, from independence in the early nineteenth century to the current process of democratic consolidation, with special attention to the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Editor(s): Silva, Patricio. Series: Latin American Studies Series. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBW; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333930939
- ISBN
- 9780333930939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.04
€ 122.04
Hardcover. Num Pages: 146 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 186 x 15. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590330555
- ISBN
- 9781590330555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.62€ 71.42
€ 93.62
€ 71.42
Paperback. This book takes a closer look at the perceptions that Americans develop about foreign countries and the role the press plays in creating those perceptions. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; HBJK; HBLW; JFD; JPHF; JPVL; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742523425
- ISBN
- 9780742523425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.71
€ 70.71
The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, ...
Lessa, Francesca, Druliolle, Vincent
Hardcover. Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; JPWL; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110144
- ISBN
- 9780230110144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342861
- ISBN
- 9780822342861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.87
€ 109.87
Hardcover. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117983
- ISBN
- 9780230117983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 45.09
€ 50.82
€ 45.09
Paperback. Reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform process that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. This book also evaluates Peru's military government (1969-79), its audacious agrarian reform program, and what that reform meant to Peruvians from all walks of life. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 photographs, 3 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JPVH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822344698
- ISBN
- 9780822344698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Hardcover. Este libro delinea el papel del nino en el cine argentino de la post-dictadura. Interprets the allegorical role of the child character in Argentine cinema of the post-dictatorship era. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662858
- ISBN
- 9781855662858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.57
€ 133.57
Paperback. Drawing on a wealth of oral histories from pioneering Chicana activists, as well as the vibrant print culture through which they articulated their agenda and built community, this book presents the first full-scale investigation of the social and political factors that led to the development of Chicana feminism. Series: Chicana Matters Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KLC; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFSJ1; JFSL4; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292726901
- ISBN
- 9780292726901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
paperback. Series: Aprende Espanol Con.. Num Pages: 56 pages, Full colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 2ADS; CJCL; CJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Editorial Edinumen Spain
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788498486285
- ISBN
- 9788498486285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.34
€ 19.34
Hardcover. Editor(s): Porter, Casey. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCP; JPS; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633215078
- ISBN
- 9781633215078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 262.65€ 178.03
€ 262.65
€ 178.03
Hardback. This is the story of one of the most ambitious agrarian reforms in Latin American history. The book argues that the economic, political, and cultural dynamics set in motion by the reforms are central to understanding the brutal civil war that ensued in Peru between the state and the Maoist-Leninist Shining Path guerilla movement. Num Pages: 284 pages, 36 half-tones 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724425
- ISBN
- 9780804724425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.20
€ 158.20
Hardcover. This book looks at Cuban and Argentine theater of the late 1960s and early 1970s to see how the idea of spectacle as violence was used to comment on and question the social and political violence that was unfolding offstage. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLSA; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613140
- ISBN
- 9780230613140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.85
€ 63.85
Hardback. Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S. Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350576
- ISBN
- 9780822350576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252060281
- ISBN
- 9780252060281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. Jean de Lery had undertaken his arduous voyage to the land of Brazil in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. This title presents a translation of an early European account of life in the New World. Translator(s): Whatley, Janet. Series: Latin American Literature & Culture S. Num Pages: 340 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520082748
- ISBN
- 9780520082748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.00€ 26.47
€ 32.00
€ 26.47
paperback. Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, this work advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. It provides a look at the research in the history of medicine through essays about how disease was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times. Editor(s): Armus, Diego. Num Pages: 336 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330691
- ISBN
- 9780822330691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Hardcover. Editor(s): Foster, Joelle. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCS; JPS; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 231 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633217669
- ISBN
- 9781633217669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.03€ 132.87
€ 194.03
€ 132.87
Hardback. This work examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization and public health issues in 19th century Buenos Aires. "Modernity in the Flesh" shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JH; 3JJC; GTB; HBTB; JFC; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748711
- ISBN
- 9780804748711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.65
€ 92.65
Hardback. An comparative political analysis of the Church in Nicaragua and Costa Rica looking mainly at the period since Vatican II. Williams argues that despite these two such dissimilar political contexts, in both cases the Church has responded to social change in a remarkably similar fashion. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HRCC7; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333471289
- ISBN
- 9780333471289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.08
€ 122.08
Hardback. In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender examines the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast to show how the mutually constituting relationships between residents and their environment informs the political process. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361046
- ISBN
- 9780822361046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. This book presents an analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas. It assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; APT; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st PB Edition
- SKU
- V9780292717121
- ISBN
- 9780292717121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. Now available in paperback, Tongues of Fire deals with one of the most extraordinary developments in the world today -- the rapid spread of Evangelical Protestantism in vast areas of the underdeveloped societies, notable Latin America. Num Pages: 366 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HRCC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631189145
- ISBN
- 9780631189145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.57
€ 54.57
Paperback. This work examines subjects ranging from pastoralism to the use of medicinal plants to show that understanding the knowledge system of any people is essential to understanding their relation to the environment. Editor(s): Gragson, Ted L.; Blount, Ben G. Num Pages: 184 pages, 5 maps, 10 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLC; 1KLS; JHM; KCN; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820321288
- ISBN
- 9780820321288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.83
€ 35.83