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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina Kenneth A. Loparo This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-06-18 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Mexico's Struggle for Public Security S. Berruecos , G. Philip The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results. This book considers the issue from a variety of viewpoints.The essential argument is that the organized crime is best combated by institutional reforms directed at... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-06-08 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela M. Brown A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-06-04 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 58,01 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880 I. Jaksic This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-01-14 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts M. Carocci , S. Pratt Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-01-02 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies History and Language in the Andes P. Heggarty , A. Pearce The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke.The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-11-21 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans C. Mcilwaine This book aims to address this neglect in the European context with concentration on the UK case. Conceptually, it explores the meanings of diaspora and whether this is an appropriate concept to refer to Latin American migration to Europe in particular Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-11-16 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas Z. Arashiro The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-05-09 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Nitrate King W. Edmundson William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-04-25 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Post-Colonial Trinidad C. Clarke Clarke andClarke have created a journal that provides an ethnographic record of the East Indians and Creoles of San Fernando - and the entire sugar belt south of the town known as Naparima. They record socio-political relations during the second year of Trinidad s... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-05-24 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Belize's Independence and Decolonization in Latin America A. Shoman Belize, a small British colony in Central America faced with a territorial claim and military threats from neighboring Guatemala, overcame disadvantages of size and power by implementing a strategy of internationalization that utilized new international norms and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-04-26 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Origins of Mercosur G. Gardini The processes of democratization and regionalization in South America ran parallel to one another between 1985 and 1991. However, the nature of this relationship is by no means clear. This book explores the diplomatic history of the formation of Mercosur and analyzes... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-02-15 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Youth Violence in Latin America G. Jones This volume provides a systematic overview of the contemporary Latin American youth violence phenomenon. The authors focus specifically on youth gangs, juvenile justice issues, and applied research concerns, providing a rounded and balanced exploration of this... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-10-26 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 78,87 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies J. Read As the world becomes increasingly globalized, the integration of cultures within nations has become more and more relevant. Read takes a poetic approach to the concept of cultural conflict within nations and adds a new perspective that has rarely been seen in debate. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-07-20 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Governance after Neoliberalism in Latin America J. Grugel Two decades of neoliberalism in Latin America have left legacies of uneven growth, inequity and lackluster democracy. This book offers an original and grounded discussion of what governance after neoliberalism means in Latin America and examines how states are pursuing... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-06-22 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America M. Haddu , J. Page This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-06-08 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Cuban Medical Internationalism J. Kirk While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in the world (ELAM) has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-06-08 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 88,73 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? J. Burdick , P. Oxhorn , K. Roberts While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans are struggling to... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-01-05 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940–1967 S. High This book examines the social, economic and political aftermath of the famous Anglo-American 'destroyers-for-bases' deal of 2nd September 1940 that saw fifty obsolete U.S. destroyers exchanged for 'base colonies' in Trinidad, Bermuda, Newfoundland and the Bahamas. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-12-22 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Federal Nation P. Davies , I. Morgan This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant shifts in US federalism in relation to social and socioeconomic issues. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-12-08 Collection : Studies of the Americas PDF 52,74 €
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