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Legitimizing Authority American Government and the Promise of Equality

Legitimizing Authority American Government and the Promise of Equality

Legitimizing Authority places the American state apparatus back in the foreground to rethink the development of the country’s government in the context of its unfulfilled promise of equality. The book argues that the tensions between calls for equality and the simultaneous tolerance of inequality have accompanied the rise of modern mass society and with it of liberal democracy. Vormann and Lammert emphasize that government has played and continues to play a decisive role in calibrating the relationship between the interior and the exterior of the nation moving between an extractive state a taxation state and a welfare state over time in order to expand social access and political participation inside the national community – while tolerating conditions that continue to belie the historical promise of equality. The authors draw on a range of literatures that transcend disciplinary boundaries to reveal how exploitative practices have been accepted. They conclude that the democratic crises of the present must be comprehended through understanding how legitimation was always maintained by a state apparatus active at multiple scales and in multiple policy fields. This interdisciplinary book is addressed to a broad audience across disciplines including political science political economy political history comparative politics international politics international relations American Political Development (APD) and cultural studies. | Legitimizing Authority American Government and the Promise of Equality

GBP 130.00
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The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan the “last modernist architect”

The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan the “last modernist architect”

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Sołtan’s work including his designs theory and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students. The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan takes the reader on a journey to both sides of the iron curtain the communist Poland and the capitalist United States contributing to the existing scholarship on modernism in post-socialist counties on CIAM and on Team 10. It pictures Sołtan as a central player in the history of modernism building on his own contribution and on close relationships with Le Corbusier and Team 10. This book illustrates not only Sołtan’s work but also his life and how it influenced twentieth-century architecture. Looking in detail at his designs and texts enables the reader to discover how modern architecture tendencies can fit into a larger geopolitical context and how designs can be true manifestos to an architect’s theory. The reader will be immersed in a series of different contexts – from communist Poland the vibrant academic atmosphere at Harvard to lively discussions on the future of modern architecture. This publication will be of particular interest for those studying modern architecture in Central Europe and in post-socialist countries in particular Poland. Architects designers architectural and design students and modern architecture enthusiasts will find this publication on the “last modernist” architect revealing new perspectives thanks to the unpublished and unresearched sources. | The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan the “last modernist architect”

GBP 130.00
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The Last Romantic Life of Max Eastman

The Last Romantic Life of Max Eastman

Poet and Journalist Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who during his life moved across the entire political spectrum. This reexamination of his career and his place in history reveals the dynamics behind his several careers and political transformations offering new insight into one of the most influential writers of this century. It is a model biography of a key intellectual of the twentieth century. It is also both a perspective social history of his times and a study in the history of ideas. The book will find a welcome place in history literature and political science courses as well as in personal libraries. | The Last Romantic Life of Max Eastman

GBP 110.00
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The Last Nizam and His People Profiles and Sketches from Hyderabad

The Last Nizam and His People Profiles and Sketches from Hyderabad

As a Princely State Hyderabad was the largest in population among over 560 tributary states under British paramountcy in colonial India. This book is a collection of profiles and sketches of some of the most important and influential people from the erstwhile Hyderabad State during the first half of the 20th century which marked the last decades of its existence as a distinct entity under the British Raj. It features profiles of Mir Osman Ali Khan the Seventh Nizam; Mir Laik Ali the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad; Kasim Razvi; some of the Nizam’s administrators and diplomats; as well as Sir Walter Monckton the Nizam’s British Constitutional Advisor; amongst others. Unfolding the pages of history the text gives an insight into the administration and affairs of Hyderabad during this time through an examination of the lives of the people closely associated with it. A unique contribution to the literature on modern Indian and colonial history this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of history modern Indian history colonialism imperial history biography and South Asia studies. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the history of Hyderabad. | The Last Nizam and His People Profiles and Sketches from Hyderabad

GBP 130.00
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Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

This book revolves around educating recently arrived immigrant youth in the United States who are emergent bilinguals. Drawing on a seven-year research collaboration with three ESL teachers in an urban secondary school in the United States it addresses questions around taking a critical approach to language and literacy education including what this looks like in everyday practice and what emergent bilingual youth can learn from it. The chapters illustrate the praxis of critical language and literacy education undertaken by everyday ESL teachers curricular materials and pedagogical practices that promote emergent bilingual youths’ engagement with words and worlds and finally a methodological and relational approach to researching with classroom teachers. The book introduces teaching practices such as dialogic problem-posing translanguaging and translation the use of multimodal texts and youth research on language. Arguing for the potential power of critical language and literacy education for immigrant youth and their teachers this book will benefit educators researchers and graduate students in the fields of language and literacy second language acquisition (SLA) ESL and TESOL pedagogy and in curriculum studies education of immigrant children and youth and multicultural issues in education. | Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

GBP 130.00
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The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives putting forward several traditions aspects and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face exploring its biological and social functions the concept of masks the impact of COVID-19 AI systems digital portraiture symbolic faces in films viral communication alien depictions personhood in video games online intimacy and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of its digital avatar spread through a myriad of new channels and transformable through filters post-productions digital cosmetics all the way to the creation of deepfakes. The digital face expresses new and largely unknown meanings which this book explores and analyzes through an interdisciplinary but systematic approach. The volume will interest researchers scholars and advanced students who are interested in digital humanities communication studies semiotics visual studies visual anthropology cultural studies and broadly speaking innovative approaches about the meaning of the face in present-day digital societies. | The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

GBP 130.00
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The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

First published in 1966 The Manor House Hospital is a short history of the hospital from its difficult early days to its modern avatar with operating theatres spacious and airy wards comfortable waiting rooms and all other appurtenances which were often lacking in other institutions. It also documents the history of the remarkable men who made such a transformation possible. This book will be of interest to students of history medicine and public policy. | The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

GBP 90.00
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The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University is a lucid comprehensive analysis of the rationale principles and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four sharp carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the myth of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for a radical reconstruction based on a social contract that would place ultimate authority in the hands of the faculty and students. The book concludes with a series of practical proposals for Utopian reform including such provocative recommendations as a variable-length ungraded undergraduate program and elimination of the Ph. D. degree. In his introduction to this new edition Wolff expands upon his original speculations to argue in substantive detail for the liberating potential of the liberal arts. Drawing upon Freud and Marcuse Wolff proposes that literature art and philosophy embody a promise of gratification that engenders a negative critique of the social and cultural status quo. The rationale for the liberal arts university is society's need for a reservoir of critical thinking that is the motor of social economic and political progress. Elegantly written and passionately argued; The Ideal of the University is essential reading for educators and sociologists.

GBP 130.00
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The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

Did Donald Trump decisively transform and alter the course of US foreign policy? All presidents promise change but few presidents promise changes as radical as Trump did during his presidency. The extent to which Trump delivered on that promise however remains hotly debated with little or no agreement. The chapters in this edited volume argue that much of this debate is a dialogue of the deaf where scholars speak past rather than to each other where the basis for claims about change or continuity is unclear and where the argument and knowledge consequently fails to progress. At its heart this is a problem of theory and methods. Employing a diverse range of theoretical and methodological perspectives this book seeks to move the debate beyond a superficial focus on events to more fundamental questions of how change is defined measured and explained and in doing so attempts to advance understanding of foreign policy change and the extent to which Trump can really be considered to have been a transformative president. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Global Affairs. | The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

GBP 130.00
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The Future of Religious Heritage Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

The Future of Religious Heritage Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage as both legacy from the past and promise for the future. Drawing on case studies from across Europe this volume addresses the intersection of three well-defined areas of research: secularism religious heritage and the question of renewal. Considering the heritagisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage contributions to the book consider to what extent the idea of renewal so pivotal to religious and secular ontologies is present in heritage formations. Thinking about the temporalities of re-enactment and reconstruction this volume examines whether heritage practices incorporate religious time into secular practice. Problematising such temporalities of the sacred in our post-secular age the volume explores how these intersections of religious and secular time in heritage practices inform constructions of the future. The Future of Religious Heritage addresses the paradox of the secularisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage in a post-secular age. It will appeal to academics and students with an interest in critical heritage studies religion and (post)secularism and will also be of interest to those studying re-enactment regeneration and renewal. | The Future of Religious Heritage Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

GBP 120.00
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The State of the World Atlas

The State of the World Atlas

Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political social economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night. • The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population over the last 50 years. • Wal-Mart's sales revenue exceeds the GDP of 150 countries. • Climate change may put 2. 7 billion at risk of armed conflict. • Germany generates more tourists than anywhere else. • Americans use 160 times more water than people in Rwanda. If you want to get behind the headlines and understand the world - from urbanization to globalization terrorism to tourism military spending to human rights - The State of the World Atlas is unmatched.

GBP 175.00
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The Informal Sector and the Environment

The Informal Sector and the Environment

The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse complex and growing area of activity. However being largely unregulated its impact on the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed. This edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major source of environmental pollution and a major reason behind the environmental degradation accompanying the expansion of economic activity in developing countries. Environmental regulation and economic incentive policies are difficult to implement in this sector because economic units are unregistered geographically dispersed and difficult to identify. Moreover given their limited capital base they cannot afford to pay pollution fees or install pollution abating equipment. Informal manufacturing units often operate under unscientific and unhealthy conditions further contributing to polluting the environment. The book emphasizes and examines these challenges and their solutions encountered in various sectors of the informal economy including urban waste pickers small-scale farmers informal workers home-based workers street vendors and more. If the informal sector is to Leave no one behind (as the Sustainable Development Goals promise) and contribute to inclusive growth (an objective of the green economy) then its impact on the economy as well as the environment has to be carefully considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on both the informal economy and sustainable development and will be of great interest to readers in economics geography politics environment studies and public policy more broadly. Chapter 4 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | The Informal Sector and the Environment

GBP 130.00
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The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

Goethe once remarked that every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control. This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau Stendhal Goethe and Carlyle Dostoevsky Whitman Lawrence and Joyce Goodheart discovers a community of concern which he calls the cult of the ego. All these writers examined here in one way or another deal with the emancipation of the spirit with all its promise and danger. The characteristic attempt is to extend the boundaries of the self by going beyond the area of safety and. thereby risking even the destruction of the self. They advance the claims of the self at the same time seeking the controls that will secure these claims. The artist-hero becomes the central figure in Goodheart's volume since it is he who comes to exemplify the possibilities of the cult of the ego. Their efforts Goodheart argues have ambiguous results. The seeds of contemporary nihilism are in the failures of these writers to master the chaos of egoism which they helped engender. But their heroism was partly in the effort of resistance: moral religious aesthetic. In a large portion of modern literature resistance has been abandoned either out of exhaustion or out of fascination with the destructive tendency of modern life: in Beckett's phrase a world endlessly collapsing. In his introduction to this first paperback edition Goodheart discusses the book's origin in relation to the counter-cultural unrest of 1968 when it was first published and weighs its theme of the emancipated self against current postmodern assertions of the death of the author. The Cult of the Ego is written with admirable clarity and economy. Its interests are literary moral and political. Moving freely and knowledgeably among various national literatures Goodheart has made an original and valuable contribution to the field of comparative literature. Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis University. Among his books are Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction Modernism and the Critical Spirit Culture and the Radical Conscience and Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir all available from Transaction. | The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

GBP 130.00
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The Integrative Functions of The Basal Ganglia

The Integrative Functions of The Basal Ganglia

This volume is the first comprehensive and single-authored book on the functions of the basal ganglia. The goal is to provide a new synthesis of diverse areas of research on the basal ganglia from cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity to neural circuit mechanisms underlying behavior. A global theory of basal ganglia function incorporating research from the last 40 years is presented. I hope to explain for the first time how the basal ganglia generate behavior how they contribute to learning and memory and how impairments in basal ganglia function can lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders. Features The only single-authored book on the basal ganglia with coverage of the latest literature Spans multiple levels of analysis from cellular physiology to behavior Includes coverage of clinical symptoms encompassing neuropsychology movement disorders and psychiatric disorders Discusses the role of the basal ganglia in learning and memory | The Integrative Functions of The Basal Ganglia

GBP 150.00
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The New Nationalism

The New Nationalism

Nationalism the state of mind in which the individual's supreme loyalty is owed to the nation-state remains the strongest of political emotions. As a historical phenomenon it is always in flux changing according to no preconceived pattern. In The New Nationalism Louis Snyder sees various forms of nationalism and categorizes them as a force for unity; a force for the status quo; a force for independence; a force for fraternity; a force for colonial expansion; a force for aggression; a force for economic expansion; and a force for anti-colonialism. In Snyder's opinion nationalism should be differentiated from Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism a phrase he borrowed from Herbert D. Croly's The Promise of American Life. Croly warned that giving too much power to big industry and finance would lead to the degradation of the masses and that state and federal intervention must be pursued on all economic fronts. Roosevelt expanded upon this concept and saw the flourishing of democratic government as a means of reviving the old pioneer sense of individualism and opportunity. Snyder in contrast extends the work of the two major pioneers in the study of modern nationalism Carlton J. H. Hayes and Hans Kohn in exploring this most powerful sentiment of modern times and showing how it relates to the political economic and psychological tendencies of historical development.

GBP 130.00
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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The 'Empty' Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade.

GBP 175.00
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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

This title was first published in 2003. When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The Empty Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade. | The 'Empty' Church Revisited

GBP 100.00
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Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?

Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?

This book examines Iran and North Korea from a non-proliferation lens. It highlights how these two countries stand out as nuclear challenges vis-à-vis the NPT and unpacks their nuclear history recent developments nuclear resolve in the times of the pandemic and future challenges in a comprehensive manner. It shows how these two issues remain similar distinguished dynamic but static so far progress on non-proliferation is concerned. The book will be a valuable read for students scholars academicians policy practitioners and anyone invested and interested in nuclear issues. | Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?

GBP 130.00
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The Family and the School A Joint Systems Aproach to Problems with Children

The Family and the School A Joint Systems Aproach to Problems with Children

This edition has been revised and updated to include more material specifically related to work with schools. It reflects the major changes in society in legislation and in the nature of the interaction between families and the education system in the last decade. The contributors all have links with the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic and include educational psychologists working with schools and hospitals family therapists child and family psychiatrists and teachers. | The Family and the School A Joint Systems Aproach to Problems with Children

GBP 130.00
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The State of the Psychoanalytic Nation Volume II

The State of the Psychoanalytic Nation Volume II

This book the second of the two volumes continues to chart the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been implemented developed and researched within the public sectors of six different countries around the world. It discusses psychoanalytic practitioners locally have responded to the challenge of evidence-based practice. For each country the authors describe: How people can access talking therapies as part of the national healthcare system including a brief history of how this system has developed and the place of psychoanalytic psychotherapy inside/outside of this system historically How clinicians train and qualify as a psychoanalytic practitioner and demographic profiles of their communities of psychoanalytic practice How evidence-based practice has impacted the mental health system and in particular access to and provision of talking therapies e. g. through the development and implementation of treatment guidelines How outcome monitoring and reporting of access waiting times and recovery rates are used in the commissioning and provision of psychological therapies What is needed to secure a viable future for psychoanalytic psychotherapy The book concludes with a comprehensive review of changes in public sector psychoanalytic psychotherapy across Europe over the last 30 years and will be of great interest to all practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. The chapters in these volumes were originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. | The State of the Psychoanalytic Nation Volume II

GBP 130.00
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The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confrontation of civilizations provoking powerful emotions on a global level. It involved censorship protests riots a break in diplomatic relations culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death of the novelist. In The Rushdie Affair Daniel Pipes explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences. Pipes looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects and shows in considerable detail what the fundamentalists perceived as so offensive in The Satanic Verses as against what Rushdie's novel actually said. Pipes explains how the book created a new crisis between Iran and the West at the time-disrupting international diplomacy billions of dollars in trade and prospects for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon. Pipes maps out the long-term implications of the crisis. If the Ayatollah so easily intimidated the West can others do the same? Can millions of fundamentalist Muslims now living in the United States and Europe possibly be assimilated into a culture so alien to them? Insightful and brilliantly written this volume provides a full understanding of one of the most significant events in recent years. Koenraad Elst's postscript reviews the enduring impact of the Rushdie affair. | The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

GBP 145.00
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The North the South and the Environment

The North the South and the Environment

The essays in this study contribute to an analysis of the prospects for the world's economy in the face of environmental constraints. The contributors examine the implications of development in both northern and southern hemispheres and the extreme differences between rich and poor nations in the distribution of income resource use and consumption. Using extensive case studies from WIDER-sponsored research the text explores the limits and consequences of further development. | The North the South and the Environment

GBP 175.00
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Latin America Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Latin America Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Now in a fifth edition Latin America has been updated to reflect the region's growing optimism as economies stabilize trade diversifies and political systems become more participatory. This multidisciplinary survey of Latin American history politics and society features invited contributions from authorities in a variety of fields. New sections address current events including deforestation in Costa Rica and Brazil emerging social movements Ecuador's new constitution and Obama's stated objectives to repair U. S. relations with the region. In addition key topics (such as women and Latin American politics socialist governments and anti-American sentiment Argentina's deteriorating economy and Colombia's struggle with military and narcotics issues) receive expanded and revitalized treatment. Other updated material covers outcomes of recent elections in Bolivia Brazil and Nicaragua among others. Through a hybrid thematic and regional organization this text provides an essential foundation for introductory courses on Latin America. | Latin America Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

GBP 130.00
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