This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The
contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us ...
Examining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North
American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries' economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been ...
Since independence at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Latin America has maintained close links
with Britain. This book examines the cultural and social implications of the relationship through a series of case studies that focus on British, Irish, and ...
In its original Spanish language version, this tour de force was awarded the famed Espejo
de Espana prize. Rubert deVentos examines the ambiguous yet highly charged relationships between Spain and the American nations of the Western hemisphere. Writing with the ...
Este volumen estudia, desde la perspectiva de la historia económica, el proceso de expansión del
transporte ferroviario que tuvo lugar en América Latina y el Caribe entre 1870 y 1930. La obra se concentra en el estudio de la era ...
This study, the first of its kind in English, examines Russian responses to the independence
movement in Latin America during the early nineteenth century. From a strictly presentist perspective, the investigation of this subject contributes to the historiography of colonialism ...
¿Por qué Latinoamérica es el segmento más pobre y subdesarrollado de Occidente? Es frecuente que
las referencias del continente europeo lo perfilen como un ideal que debemos alcanzar, llamándolo incluso lacumbre de la civilización. Pero ¿qué podemos decir de ...
“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And
yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of ...