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Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea
This edited volume revisits the idea of the Western Hemisphere. First articulated by Arthur P. Whitaker in 1954 but with origins in the earlier work...
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Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain
This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally...
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A Transnational Analysis of Representations of the US Filibusters in Nicaragua, 1855-1857
This book investigates how the encounter between the U.S. filibuster expedition in 1855-1857 and Nicaraguans was imagined in both countries. The...
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A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro after 1889 Glorious Decadence
This book studies architecture and literature of Rio de Janeiro, the “Marvellous City,” from the revolution of 1889 to the Olympics of 2016, taking...
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US Military Bases, Quasi-bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America
This book explores domestic opposition to formal US military bases in Latin America, and provides evidence of a growing network of informal and...
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The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America
This book presents a challenging view of the adoption and co-option of multiculturalism in Latin America from six scholars with extensive experience...
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The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government
The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work concerns the 'hand' the New Deal plays from the perspective of early American History in which government...
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Protestant Communalism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1650–1850
This book explores the trans-Atlantic history of Protestant traditions of communalism – communities of shared property.
The sixteenth-century...
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World War I and Urban Order The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization
This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.S. cities during the first truly national war mobilization effort. World War...
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Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela The Politics of Music in Latin America
Unlike much of the literature on Venezuela in the Chávez period, this book shifts focus away from 'top down' perspectives to examine how Venezuelan...
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Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it...
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Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World
Puritanism has a reputation for being emotionally dry, but seventeenth-century Puritans did not only have rich and complex emotional lives, they also...
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Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People History and Memory
This important look at CAP combines historical research and analysis with the author's first-hand experience with the organization, providing the...
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Experiencing Puerto Rican Citizenship and Cultural Nationalism
Drawing from in-depth interviews with a group of Puerto Ricans who requested a certificate of Puerto Rican citizenship, legal and historical...
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US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and the Shah
US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran examines the evolution of US-Iranian relations during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B....
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Brazil’s Africa Strategy Role Conception and the Drive for International Status
The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy...
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Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800
For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might...
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The Last Children’s Plague Poliomyelitis, Disability, and Twentieth-Century American Culture
Poliomyelitis, better known as polio, thoroughly stumped the medical science community. Polio's impact remained highly visible and sometimes...
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Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism
A study of the rise and decline of puritanism in England and New England that focuses on the role of godly men and women. It explores the role of...
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The American Civil War in British Culture Representations and Responses, 1870 to the Present
This book explores the continuous British fascination with the American Civil War from the 1870s to the present. Analysing the War's place in British...