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  • - Power, Production, and History in the Americas
     
    43,00 €

    Examines the history of banana-producing areas of Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective, asking why different regions developed distinct patterns of property and labor mobilization. This collection also reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages.

  • - Mexico in the Global Sixties
    von Eric Zolov
    44,00 €

    Eric Zolov presents a revisionist account of Mexican domestic politics and international relations during the long 1960s, tracing how Mexico emerged from the shadow of FDR's Good Neighbor policy to become a geopolitical player in its own right during the Cold War.

  • - The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
    von Kirsten Weld
    42,00 €

    In 2005, human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of Guatemala's National Police. In Paper Cadavers, Kirsten Weld tells the story of the astonishing discovery and rescue of 75 million pages of evidence of state-sponsored crimes, and analyzes the repercussions for both the people and the state of Guatemala.

  • - Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968
     
    47,00 €

    In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. This book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state.

  • - Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone
    von Michael E. Donoghue
    43,00 €

    Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed.

  • - The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century
     
    42,00 €

  • - Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico
    von Eileen J. Suarez Findlay
    40,00 €

    A transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state's sugar beet fields.

  • - Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain
     
    42,00 €

    Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context as a way to grasp the power relations that shape imperial formations.

  • von Marc Becker
    40,00 - 125,00 €

    Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s, showing how the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin American during the cold war.

  • von Penny M. Von Eschen
    44,00 - 136,00 €

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