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Book La Patria Nueva

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paulo Drinot
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2018-02-15
  • ISBN : 1945234180
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book La Patria Nueva written by Paulo Drinot and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La "Patria Nueva" de Augusto B. Leguia (1919-1930) sigue siendo el gobierno de mayor duracion en la historia republicana peruana. Tambien conocido como el "Oncenio", el periodo constituye un momento clave en el siglo XX. Sin embargo, aunque historiadores y publico en general asi lo reconoce, es poco lo que sabemos sobre aquella coyuntura. Y, peor aun, lo poco que conocemos responde, en gran medida, a la "leyenda negra" que comenzo a formarse tras su derrumbe en 1930, sino antes. A traves de estudios especificos - mas que desde la gran interpretacion - y movilizando diversas metodologias y perspectivas teoricas, este libro propone una nueva manera de observar este periodo crucial de la vida republicana y abre nuevas pistas de investigacion sobre la "Patria Nueva".

Book The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic  from the Captains General to General Trujillo

Download or read book The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic from the Captains General to General Trujillo written by Valentina Peguero and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the interaction of the military & the civilian population, showing the many ways in which the military ethos has permeated Dominican culture.

Book The Adventure Guide to the Dominican Republic

Download or read book The Adventure Guide to the Dominican Republic written by Harry S. Pariser and published by Harry S. Pariser. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For la Patria

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Loveman
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2004-09-08
  • ISBN : 0585282072
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book For la Patria written by Brian Loveman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending 'la patria,' or 'homeland,' is the historical mission claimed by Latin American armed forces. For la Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defense and security. Latin American civil-military relations and the role of the armed forces in politics, like those of all modern nation-states, are framed by constitutional and legal norms specifying the formal relationships between the armed forces and the rest of society. In actuality, they are also the result of expectations, attitudes, values, and practices evolved over centuries-integral aspects of national political cultures. Military institutions in each Latin American nation have resulted from that country's own blend of local and imported influences, developing a distinctive pattern of civil-military relations as defender of the fatherland and guarantor of security and order. Written by Latin American specialist Brian Loveman, For la Patria includes tables, maps, photographs, and a glossary that will assist the student in better understanding the military's intervention in politics in Latin America. This new text will give students a thorough and accessible history of Latin American armed forces and their actions in Latin American politics from colonial times to the present.

Book A Short History of Chile

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  • Author : Sergio Villalobos R.
  • Publisher : Editorial Universitaria
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9789561117617
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book A Short History of Chile written by Sergio Villalobos R. and published by Editorial Universitaria. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bandits and Liberals  Rebels and Saints

Download or read book Bandits and Liberals Rebels and Saints written by Alan Knight and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints Alan Knight offers a distinct perspective on several overarching themes in Latin American history, spanning approximately two centuries, from 1800 to 2000. Knight's approach is ambitious and comparative--sometimes ranging beyond Latin America and combining relevant social theory with robust empirical detail. He tries to offer answers to big questions while challenging alternative answers and approaches, including several recently fashionable ones. While the individual essays and the book as a whole are roughly chronological, the approach is essentially thematic, with chapters devoted to major contentious themes in Latin American history across two centuries: the sociopolitical roots and impact of banditry; the character and evolution of liberalism; religious conflict; the divergent historical trajectories of Peru and Mexico; the nature of informal empire and internal colonialism; and the region's revolutionary history--viewed through the twin prisms of British perceptions and comparative global history.

Book The Rural State

    Book Details:
  • Author : Javier Puente
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2023-01-17
  • ISBN : 1477326286
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Rural State written by Javier Puente and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How rural political organization intersects with the environment in Peru over the course of nearly a full century.

Book Tort Law in Chile

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  • Author : Alfredo Ferrante
  • Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
  • Release : 2022-04-21
  • ISBN : 9403546921
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book Tort Law in Chile written by Alfredo Ferrante and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in the Chile. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each person’s most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale. Following a general introduction that probes the distinction between tort and crime and the relationship between tort and contract, the monograph describes how the concepts of fault and unlawfulness, and of duty of care and negligence, are dealt with in both the legislature and the courts. The book then proceeds to cover specific cases of liability, such as professional liability, liability of public bodies, abuse of rights, injury to reputation and privacy, vicarious liability, liability of parents and teachers, liability for handicapped persons, product liability, environmental liability, and liability connected with road and traffic accidents. Principles of causation, grounds of justification, limitations on recovery, assessment of damages and compensation, and the role of private insurance and social security are all closely considered. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for lawyers in Chile. Academics and researchers will also welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value not only as a contribution to comparative law but also as a stimulus to harmonization of the rules on tort.

Book The Mayan in the Mall

Download or read book The Mayan in the Mall written by J. T. Way and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere.

Book Art and Revolution in Latin America  1910 1990

Download or read book Art and Revolution in Latin America 1910 1990 written by David Craven and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals - in Mexico (1910-40), in Cuba (1959-89), and in Nicaragua (1979-90) - were defining moments in twentieth-century life in the Americas. Craven discusses the structural logic of each movement's artistic project - by whom, how, and for whom artworks were produced -- and assesses their legacies. In each case, he demonstrates how the consequences of the revolution reverberated in the arts and cultures far beyond national borders. The book not only examines specific artworks originating from each revolution's attempt to deal with the challenge of 'socializing the arts,' but also the engagement of the working classes in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua with a tradition of the fine arts made newly accessible through social transformation. Craven considers how each revolution dealt with the pressing problem of creating a 'dialogical art' -- one that reconfigures the existing artistic resource rather than one that just reproduces a populist art to keep things as they were. In addition, the author charts the impact on the revolutionary processes of theories of art and education, articulated by such thinkers as John Dewey and Paulo Freire. The book provides a fascinating new view of the Latin American revolutionaries -- from artists to political leaders -- who defined art as a fundamental force for the transformation of society and who bequeathed new ways of thinking about the relations among art, ideology, and class, within a revolutionary process.

Book Psychedelic Chile

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Barr-Melej
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-03-27
  • ISBN : 1469632586
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book Psychedelic Chile written by Patrick Barr-Melej and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Barr-Melej here illuminates modern Chilean history with an unprecedented chronicle and reassessment of the sixties and seventies. During a period of tremendous political and social strife that saw the election of a Marxist president followed by the terror of a military coup in 1973, a youth-driven, transnationally connected counterculture smashed onto the scene. Contributing to a surging historiography of the era's Latin American counterculture, Barr-Melej draws on media and firsthand interviews in documenting the intertwining of youth and counterculture with discourses rooted in class and party politics. Focusing on "hippismo" and an esoteric movement called Poder Joven, Barr-Melej challenges a number of prevailing assumptions about culture, politics, and the Left under Salvador Allende's "Chilean Road to Socialism." While countercultural attitudes toward recreational drug use, gender roles and sexuality, rock music, and consumerism influenced many youths on the Left, the preponderance of leftist leaders shared a more conservative cultural sensibility. This exposed, Barr-Melej argues, a degree of intergenerational dissonance within leftist ranks. And while the allure of new and heterodox cultural values and practices among young people grew, an array of constituencies from the Left to the Right berated counterculture in national media, speeches, schools, and other settings. This public discourse of contempt ultimately contributed to the fierce repression of nonconformist youth culture following the coup.

Book Music and Marx

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  • Author : Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 1136541357
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Music and Marx written by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known contributors analyze the ways in which Marxist thought enters into music discourse. Exploring everything from Marxism in hip-hop to feudal properties of Hindustani music to revolutionary music of Central America, the essays in this book find surprising, paradigm-shifting revelations. This book will revolutionize the way music production and consumption is viewed. First published in 2002.

Book The Encrypted State

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  • Author : David Nugent
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-13
  • ISBN : 1503609723
  • Pages : 427 pages

Download or read book The Encrypted State written by David Nugent and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional? The Encrypted State engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability. The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th-century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. The Encrypted State engages the notion of sacropolitics—the politics of mass group sacrifice—to make sense of state delusion. Nugent interrogates the forces that variously enable or disable organized political subjection, and the role of state structures in this process. Investigating the role of everyday cultural practices and how affect and imagination structure political affairs, Nugent provides a greater understanding of the conditions of state formation, and failure.

Book The Militant Song Movement in Latin America

Download or read book The Militant Song Movement in Latin America written by Pablo Vila and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s underwent a profound and often violent process of social change. From the Cuban Revolution to the massive guerrilla movements in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, and most of Central America, to the democratic socialist experiment of Allende in Chile, to the increased popularity of socialist-oriented parties in Uruguay, or para-socialist movements, such as the Juventud Peronista in Argentina, the idea of social change was in the air. Although this topic has been explored from a political and social point of view, there is an aspect that has remained fairly unexplored. The cultural—and especially musical—dimension of this movement, so vital in order to comprehend the extent of its emotional appeal, has not been fully documented. Without an account of how music was pervasively used in the construction of the emotional components that always accompany political action, any explanation of what occurred in Latin America during that period will be always partial. This bookis an initial attempt to overcome this deficit. In this collection of essays, we examine the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina at the peak of its popularity (from the mid-1960s to the coup d’états in the mid-1970s), considering their different political stances and musical deportments. Throughout the book, the contribution of the most important musicians of the movement (Violeta Parra, Víctor Jara, Patricio Manns, Quilapayún, Inti-Illimani, etc., in Chile; Daniel Viglietti, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Los Olimareños, etc., in Uruguay; Atahualpa Yupanqui, Horacio Guarany, Mercedes Sosa, Marian Farías Gómez, Armando Tejada Gómez, César Isella, Víctor Heredia, Los Trovadores, etc., in Argentina) are highlighted; and some of the most important conceptual extended oeuvres of the period (called “cantatas”) are analyzed (such as “La Cantata Popular Santa María de Iquique” in the Chilean case and “Montoneros” in the Argentine case). The contributors to the collection deal with the complex relationship that the aesthetic of the movement established between the political content of the lyrics and the musical and performative aspects of the most popular songs of the period.

Book Bachata and Dominican Identity   La bachata y la identidad dominicana

Download or read book Bachata and Dominican Identity La bachata y la identidad dominicana written by Julie A. Sellers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachata--a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo's urban shantytowns in the 1960s--is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata's history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor resulted from the political climate of its origins and ties between class and race, and proposes that its ultimate acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arose from its innovations, the growth of the lower class, and a devoted following among Dominican migrants. La bachata--una musica de guitarra que se estreno en los barrios populares de Santo Domingo en los anos 60--hoy, es uno de los generos latinos mas populares. No obstante, sus aficionados y sus exponentes recuerdan el estigma social asociado que conllevo por decadas. Este libro entreteje la historia y el desarrollo de la bachata con el contexto socio-politico de la identidad dominicana. La autora plantea que su desaprobacion temprana resulto del clima politico en que nacio y los vinculos entre raza y clase social. Propone que su aceptacion final como simbolo de identidad dominicana surge de sus innovaciones, el crecimiento de la clase baja y sus seguidores leales entre los migrantes dominicanos.

Book The Sexual Question

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paulo Drinot
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-12
  • ISBN : 1108493122
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book The Sexual Question written by Paulo Drinot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its regulation in Peru. Scholars and students interested in Latin American history, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of medicine and public health will find Drinot's study engaging and thoroughly researched.

Book Unmastering the Script

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sheridan Wigginton
  • Publisher : University Alabama Press
  • Release : 2019-09-03
  • ISBN : 0817320318
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Unmastering the Script written by Sheridan Wigginton and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness