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Book Los Que Mandan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jos? Luis de Imaz
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1970-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780873950442
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Los Que Mandan written by Jos? Luis de Imaz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the political process in Argentina.

Book Castro S Final Hour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andres Oppenheimer
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1993-10-29
  • ISBN : 0671872990
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Castro S Final Hour written by Andres Oppenheimer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-10-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, the picture Oppenheimer paints is extraordinarily detailed and engrossing, revealing a country on the brink of disaster. He uncovers Castro's never-before reported efforts to radicalize Noriega's regime in Panama, the failure of his "Zero Option" plan to restore economic stability without outside aid, and tells how, in a last ditch attempt to save the country from its dire slide, Castro's top aides pushed a plan to strip him of some of his powers. Including exclusive interviews with Soviet officials, Latin American leaders - including Daniel Ortega and Manuel Noriega - as well as the top echelon of current Cuban leadership and Fidel's dissident daughter, Alina, Castro's Final Hour is a compelling and intimate portrait of the Cuban leader, and an authoritative evaluation of what the future may hold for his country.

Book The Igbo Igala Borderland

Download or read book The Igbo Igala Borderland written by Austin J. Shelton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1971-06-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethno-historical survey of the northern Nsukka borderland examines particularly one method of African colonial control. When, in the late eighteenth century, the Igala conquered the indigenous Igbo, they gained and held social control through monopoly of certain religious positions. However, despite conscious effort to maintain Igala religious lineages, these gradually became Igbonized. In delineating this religious-social control, Professor Shelton describes extensively border conditions and the nature of Igbo life in the Nsukka area. He dwells particularly on the Igbo religious framework which includes well-disposed, beneficent spirits and more capricious and potentially more hostile outside spirits called alusi. The invading Igala installed their own men as priests, or attama, to the dangerous alusi, thereby becoming the sole mediators between these spirits and the Igbo. Since the attama also controlled most divination, which is employed to explain any unclear or mysterious phenomenon, there was no essential social activity the Igala attama could not influence. Professor Shelton shows how the Igbo attempted to circumvent the alusi worship by emphasizing various aspects of familial worship (of the ancestors, the High God, Earth), but how this attempt failed because these essentially friendly beings did not require propitiation while it was demanded by the alusi. On the other hand, although the Igala attempted to keep the attama lineages Igala, these families gradually formed so many connections with Igbo families that they eventually Igbonized even though they retained a nominal Igala identification. Professor Shelton's description of religious activity in the borderland is clear and original. He makes extensive use of material gathered in the field, particularly oral transmissions, and pays marked attention to linguistic clues for information. In extended descriptions of religious ceremonies, Professor Shelton provides evidence that the social control maneuvers of both the Igala and the Igbo are revealed in the content of their prayers. An appendix gives important material concerning the origin of these borderland people and a glossary of Igbo terms provides diacritical marks to aid pronunciation of these words which have little standard orthography. The work is also supplemented with maps, charts, and photographs.

Book Coloniality  Religion  and the Law in the Early Iberian World

Download or read book Coloniality Religion and the Law in the Early Iberian World written by Santa Arias and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production. Hispanic Issues Series Nicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-Chief Hispanic Issues Online hispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html

Book Bahia in the First Brazilian Republic

Download or read book Bahia in the First Brazilian Republic written by Eul-Soo Pang and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ambassadors of the Working Class

Download or read book Ambassadors of the Working Class written by Ernesto Semán and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country in history. A meatpacking union leader taught striking workers in Chicago about rising salaries under Perón. A railroad motorist joined the revolution in Bolivia. A baker showed Soviet workers the daily caloric intake of their Argentine counterparts. As Ambassadors of the Working Class shows, the attachés' struggle against US diplomats in Latin America turned the region into a Cold War battlefield for the hearts of the working classes. In this context, Ernesto Semán reveals, for example, how the attachés' brand of transnational populism offered Fidel Castro and Che Guevara their last chance at mass politics before their embrace of revolutionary violence. Fiercely opposed by Washington, the attachés’ project foundered, but not before US policymakers used their opposition to Peronism to rehearse arguments against the New Deal's legacies.

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 Latino Christianity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luis Enrique Benavides
  • Publisher : Luis Benavides
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 1599710498
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Latino Christianity written by Luis Enrique Benavides and published by Luis Benavides. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and theological account of the development of the Latino Ministries in the New England Conference.

Book Parties and Power in Modern Argentina 1930 1946

Download or read book Parties and Power in Modern Argentina 1930 1946 written by Alberto Ciria and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1974-06-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the immediate causes of Peronism in its formative stages is included in this study of the emergence of powerful pressure groups and the decay of traditional political parties in Argentina during the period 1930–1946. A detailed, well-documented description of Argentine politics through four administrations. Originally published in Spanish as Partidos y poder en la Argentina Moderna (1930–1946) by Editiorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires in 1966.

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Meeting

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting written by American Society of International Law. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intercultural Dialogue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Dallmayr
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2015-01-12
  • ISBN : 1443873519
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Intercultural Dialogue written by Fred Dallmayr and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity offers a philosophical analysis of the issues surrounding cultural diversity and dialogical relationships among cultures as an alternative to “culture wars” and hegemonic globalization. It examines the ideas of dialogue and harmony as expressed in Daoism, Confucianism, Indian, and Ancient Greek philosophical traditions, as well as in contemporary European and Latin-American philosophies. Drawing on the works of Laozi, Confucius, Plato, Kant, and Gandhi, the book shows the importance of intercultural dialogue and the globalization of philosophy. It asserts that intercultural dialogue should have inter-philosophical global dialogue as its epistemological and ontological foundation. Intercultural philosophy elaborates on the conceptualization of philosophy as culturally embedded. Attention is paid to Bakhtin’s dialogism and its contemporary elaboration in the phenomenology of indirect speech, synergic anthropology, and the theory of transculture. The book offers a critical analysis of world problems. Their possible solutions require a more dialogically-oriented and humane transformation of society, aiming for a cosmopolitan order of law and peace.

Book Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization

Download or read book Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization written by Yves Dezalay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Argentina s Foreign Policy h

Download or read book Argentina s Foreign Policy h written by Edward S Milenky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crises of industrialization and nation building have produced varying foreign policies and associated domestic images in Argentina. Classic liberals see the country as a Western, European society whose difficulties will be resolved through fuller and more effective participation in world affairs. Statist nationalists see a dependent, developing

Book Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing written by Kelly Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.

Book Parties  Elections  and Political Participation in Latin America

Download or read book Parties Elections and Political Participation in Latin America written by Jorge I Dominguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. This is Volume five of seven of a collection of essays that gathers together scholarly debates from the 1950s to the 1990s on Mexico, Central and South America. This text looks at topics such as government parties in Latin America, the Mexican elections of 1958, political campaigning, the scope of the Chilean Party systems, the case of Peronism and electoral change amongst others.

Book Parties  Elections  and Political Participation in Latin America

Download or read book Parties Elections and Political Participation in Latin America written by Jorge I. Domínguez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Working Class Inclusion

Download or read book Working Class Inclusion written by Tiffany D. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American legislators, like legislators worldwide, are drawn from a narrow set of elites who are largely out of touch with average citizens. Despite comprising the vast majority of the labor force, working-class people represent a small slice of the legislature. Working Class Inclusion examines how the near exclusion of working-class citizens from legislatures affects citizens' evaluations of government. Combining surveys from across Latin America with novel data on legislators' class backgrounds and experiments from Argentina and Mexico, the book demonstrates voters want more workers in office, and when combined with policy representation, the presence of working-class legislators improves citizens' evaluations of government. Absent policy representation, however, workers are met with distrust and backlash. Chapters show citizens have many opportunities to learn about the presence, or absence, of workers; and the relationship between working-class representation and evaluations of government is strongest among citizens who are aware of legislators' class status.