"How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and indigenous inhabitants, this island (or rather archipelago) has a...

How gender and generation shape perceptions of place and time as told through the voices of Mexican teenage girlsThis book examines the lived experiences of Mexican teenage girls raised in transnational families and the varied ways they make meaning of...

Silencing the Guns in Haiti traces Haiti's halting and uncertain quest for democracy from the perspective of someone who played a leading part in every stage of that process."A provocative study of the prospects for the rule of law in Haiti."—Marilyn...

A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biographyC.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of...

Ricardo Falla.

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U.S. Latinx theology is a formidable tradition of varied discourses, reflecting the richly textured reality of Latinx life in the United States. The writings of the third generation of U.S. Latinx religious scholarship provide a window on some of the new...

A rich contribution to the understanding of Inca archaeology and architecture and an invaluable guide for visitors to Peru. The stone monuments of the Incas, set against the dramatic backdrop of the Andes, are among the most magnificent structures in the...

Why, in both democratic and authoritarian governments, do the politically and economically weak sometimes take to the streets and not to the ballot boxes? Why do angry workers at times support revolutionary movements but at other times express outrage...

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A comprehensive analysis of the Mexican agrarian sector's development from the times of Zapata to the neoliberal reforms of the 1990's. The work shows how the Mexican State, despite its long agrarian reform policy and pro-peasant rhetorics, has...

To many observers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mexico appeared to be a modern nation-state at last assuming an international role through its participation in NAFTA and the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development). Then came the...

Contrary to widespread expectation, the ending of the Cold War has not produced continuous harmony and cooperation in U.S.-Latin American relations. Instead, NAFTA seems to threaten as much as it promises; economic prospects have been shaken by the...