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ISBN: 9780879032654
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Statistical Abstract of Latin America, Volume 38
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879032654
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Statistical Abstract of Latin America, Volume 38
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879032654
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Statistical Abstract of Latin America, 1991
Author: James Wallace WilkiePublisher:
ISBN: 9780879032524
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Brian W. BlouetPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470387734
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Updated and revised with many new detailed maps and photographs, this sixth edition enables geographers to explore the changes and major issues facing this dynamic region today. The historical material has been streamlined in order to focus on contemporary issues. Key environmental issues are highlighted in new boxes throughout the chapters. The Systematic surveys have been restructured. New profiles of Latin American countries and major issues are also covered. This approach will help geographers visit the dynamic people and places of Latin America.
Statistical Abstract of Latin America for ...
Author: Statistical Abstract of Latin America
Author: Latinos
Author: Marcelo M. Suárez-OrozcoPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520258273
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
"Latinos brings together the most sophisticated thinking on the changing intellectual complexion of America."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
The Dynamics of Democratization
Author: Nathan J. BrownPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142140088X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The explosive spread of democracy has radically transformed the international political landscape and captured the attention of academics, policy makers, and activists alike. With interest in democratization still growing, Nathan J. Brown and other leading political scientists assess the current state of the field, reflecting on the causes and diffusion of democracy over the past two decades. The volume focuses on three issues very much at the heart of discussions about democracy today: dictatorship, development, and diffusion. The essays first explore the surprising but necessary relationship between democracy and authoritarianism; they next analyze the introduction of democracy in developing countries; last, they examine how international factors affect the democratization process. In exploring these key issues, the contributors ask themselves three questions: What causes a democracy to emerge and succeed? Does democracy make things better? Can democracy be successfully promoted? In contemplating these questions, The Dynamics of Democratization offers a frank and critical assessment of the field for students and scholars of comparative politics and the political economy of development. Contributors: Gregg A. Brazinsky, George Washington University; Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University; Kathleen Bruhn, University of California at Santa Barbara; Valerie J. Bunce, Cornell University; José Antonio Cheibub, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bruce J. Dickson, George Washington University; M. Steven Fish, University of California at Berkeley; John Gerring, Boston University; Henry E. Hale, George Washington University; Susan D. Hyde, Yale University; Craig M. Kauffman, George Washington University; Staffan I. Lindberg, University of Florida; Sara Meerow, University of Amsterdam; James Raymond Vreeland, Georgetown University; Sharon L. Wolchik, George Washington University
Latin America
Author: R. WilliamsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113709592X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This is a broad introduction to Latin America, ranging from religion and history to literature and education, with a focus on cultures and cultural change. With lively prose and a variety of informative inserts, Williamson draws the reader in to the diverse realities of a continent in flux, holding it together by a strong theoretical framework.
The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970
Author: Dennis GilbertPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442270918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class—the oligarchy—consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were growing rich in a rapidly expanding global economy. Examining these immensely powerful groups, Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. He then sketches a fine-grained portrait of three prominent Peruvian families, providing a vivid window into the everyday exercise of power. Here we see the oligarchs arranging the deportation of “political undesirables,” controlling labor through means subtle and brutal, orchestrating press campaigns, extending credit on easy terms to rising military officers, and financing the overthrow of an unfriendly government. Gilbert concludes by answering three questions: What were the sources of oligarchic power? What were the forces that undermined it? Why did oligarchies persist longer in some countries than in others? His clear, comprehensible, and illuminating analysis will make this an invaluable book for all students of modern Latin America.