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The New Latin American Fashion Reader

This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Readerto explore ideas of rupture and repair in the past and present of Latin American fashion.

Trends in Latin American Psychology

This book brings together English versions of a selection of articles originally published in Spanish in Universitas Psychologica, one of the most important psychology journals in Latin America. It's an a…

Guardianas

A collection of testimonies from midwives in El Salvador who delivered babies during the twelve-year-long civil war and today fight to protect their ancestral role to care for the reproductive health of t…

The Fuero Real

This book presents an English translation of King Alfonso X of Castile--León's municipal law code, a companion to his monumental Siete Partidas.Known as El Rey Sabio ("the Learned King"), Alfons…

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Walking a City's History

Take a street-level tour of Mexico's capital and learn how one of the world's most extraordinary cities has transformed over the centuries.Walking a City's History is both a richly documented panoramic vi…

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo

Puerto Rico

"A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, …

The New Latin American Fashion Reader

This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Readerto explore ideas of rupture and repair in the past and present of Latin American fashion.

Handbook of Latin American Health Psychology

This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of a tradition of psychological research and practice little known in the English-speaking world: the Latin American school of health psychology. Even thoug…

Ashley Lebner

The Mystic of Friendship

A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon.On Brazil's Amazonian frontier, settlers pursue land and opportunity, but they also gather for prayer and pilgrimage,…

Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo,

Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking

An in-depth exploration of how traumatic memories of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) have shaped contemporary filmmaking ethics and aesthetics.

Aileen Teague

Policing on Drugs

Internationally, although the war on drugs is widely considered a failure, it continues to be deeply entrenched in US diplomacy with partner nations through counternarcotics agreements, continued DEA pres…

Adaptation and the Edge Effects of Latin American Cultures

Thomas Leitch.- Preface.- Elisabeth L. Austin and Elena Lahr-Vivaz, "Introduction: Latin American Adaptations on the Edge".- Part I. Historical Hauntings and Archival Adaptations.- 1. Catalina A…

Jens Kastner

Dekolonialistische Theorie aus Lateinamerika

Seit einigen Jahren ist ein regelrechter Boom dekolonialistischer Ansätze zu verzeichnen: In den theoretischen Debatten der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften werden die alten Fragen sozialer Ungleichheit u…

Adriana E Ramírez

The Violence

A powerful chronicle of Colombia's descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, c…

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

"Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massiv…

The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies

The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies examines the remarkable transformation of the Central Andes and the tropical Amazon beginning around 7000 BCE, when the Indigenous inhabitants be…

Digital Transformation and Innovation in Organizations

This volume discusses the intersection of digital transformation and innovation in firms, sectors, and regions in Latin America. It addresses the region's labor market challenges in the advent of the digi…

Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez

Lloronas, Chupacabras, and Other Creatures

The story of La Llorona---the weeping spirit everyone recognizes but no one wants to face---has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, spanning nearly all of Latin America and tracing its origins …

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime