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Latin America & the Caribbean
This book has been written primarily as a geography of Latin America and the Caribbean, but is also intended to serve as an interdisciplinary introduction to the region. The focus of the text is on comprehension of concepts, patterns, and issues rather than on memorization of facts and figures. The latter are provided, but they are intended primarily to illustrate the underlying conditions rather than to serve as the focus of the text. The text is designed for maximum flexibility. Written to be readable for...
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A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbeanfrom the tip of South America to the Windward Islands.
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Used - This survey contains both regional analysis and reports on individual countries. It also includes a chapter on employment and wages and another on saving and investment. Other elements introduced in this edition are chapters on structural reforms and on the Latin American banking system.
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"The chapters in these volumes excel in describing the diverse cultural responses of black populations to unique local and national contexts.... Whitten and Torres have produced a valuable collection destined to become a standard reference work on black cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean." -- American Anthropologist To understand the meanings of "blackness" in the African diaspora, we must critically examine the paradigms that have emerged over the past five centuries out of Euroamerican racism and...
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The text is designed for maximum flexibility. Written to be readable for beginning students, it is also generously documented with scholarly references for the research needs of advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The individual chapters can be used in all, or in part, and in any order.
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CWC Associates will hold their Latin America & the Caribbean Gas Summit on June 28 â 30, 2004 in Port of Spain,
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This book brings leaders in the field of U.S. Latin American relations together with the most promising young scholars to shed historical light on the present implications of hostility to the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. In essays that carry the reader from Revolutionary Mexico to Peronist Argentina, from Panama in the nineteenth century to the West Indies' mid century independence movement, and from Colombian drug runners to liberation theologists, the authors unearth little...
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USAID supports Mexican institutions efforts to manage and conserve natural resources through the introduction of best practices that improve economic opportunities for areas with exceptional biodiversity. This includes promotion of conservation coffee, certified timber products, and sustainable tourism, as well as other practices that protect the environment while increasing local economic benefits. In collaboration with Mexican public and private sector activities, USAID supports development...
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Race, Ethnicity, & Class:: Forging the Plural Society in Latin America & the Caribbean
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Used - Examining the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin Pane fica, Marysa Navarro looks at both early indigenous societies and the Spanish and the Portuguese, who claimed the "New World." She notes the interaction of race and class factors and illustrates these dynamics through portraits of individual women, as well as through an examination of legal status and economic roles.Virginia Sanchez Korrol views the changing roles of women in Latin Am
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Latin America & the Caribbean in the International System
An integrated survey of the region’s role in the world. Organized around the idea of the region as a separate subsystem within the global international system, the discussion gives special emphasis to complex interstate and transnational structures and processes. Within this framework, Atkins analyzes the foreign policies of the Latin American states themselves and those of the US and other countries toward Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook offers readers an authoritative tour of a remarkable country, tracing its historical development from pre-Colombian inhabitants and Spanish colonization through rising prosperity in the mid-19th century to current struggles to define itself economically and politically. Costa Rica combines narrative chapters on the nation's history and the current state of its political, social, and cultural institutions with alphabetically organized entries covering important people...
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Leading environmental activists, from both sides of the Atlantic highlight the struggles and initiatives of indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Salvador, Honduras. Whether urban or rural, local or national, the lesson from these struggles is clear: defense of the environment is integral to the quest for basic rights and decent living standards.
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Universal Map U.S. History Wall Maps - U.S. Intervention in Latin America & Caribbean - 30131
U.S. History Wall Maps cover a wide range of topics to include the history of the United States. Ranging from the American Civil War, to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Depression, this series tries to cover as much history as accurately as possible. Maps include a detailed legend, color coding to distinguish borders, a scale, and labels as they were that time in history. These quality maps bring history to life, and will add a whole new dimension to your lessons. All classroom wall maps are...
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Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Expert chapter authors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array...
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A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbean-from the tip of South America to the Windward Islands. Snowy Andean peaks. Steaming Brazilian rainforest. Lush tropical islands. Few regions on Earth are as diverse or spectacular as Latin America and the Caribbean. And few are as threatened by expanding populations, industrial pollutants, and unsustainable farming methods. Latin America and the Caribbean, a new title in...
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Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean (Studies In Latin America & Car)
The contradance and quadrille, in their diverse forms, were the most popular, widespread, and important genres of creole Caribbean music and dance in the nineteenth century. Throughout the region they constituted sites for interaction of musicians and musical elements of different racial, social, and ethnic origins, and they became crucibles for the evolution of genres like the Cuban danzón and son, the Dominican merengue, and the Haitian mereng. Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean is...
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Measuring Inequality Of Opportunities In Latin America And The Caribbean (hardcover) - By Francisco H. G. Ferreira,jose R. Molinas Vega,jaime Saavedra Chanduvi,francisco H. G. Gerreira
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Robert Pastor maintains that the collapse of Communism is less important in permitting the United States to escape the whirlpool of Latin American politics than are the new trends of democracy and freer trade in the region.
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Books. Latin America and the Caribbean
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Updated edition -- In this edition, Peter Winn takes account of dramatic changes and developments in Latin America since 1994.
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Used - All entries in this reference are fully revised and updated with expanded discographies in which the CD reviews are preceded by quickly-accessible, biographical three-liners on the artists and bands.
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