Browse by Subject: Latin American Studies

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History's Peru: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography

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Venezuela's Petro-Diplomacy: Hugo Chávez's Foreign Policy

Venezuela's Petro-Diplomacy offers fresh, authoritative insights into a wide array of questions hanging over Venezuelan foreign policy and the leadership of the maverick president, Chavez. 

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Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation, and Community During the Liberal Period

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Failed Sanctions: Why the U.S. Embargo against Cuba Could Never Work

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Hidden Powers of State in the Cuban Imagination

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Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation in Latin America

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Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean

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Moments of Discovery: Natural History Narratives from Mexico and Central America

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Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia

The Urarina are an indigenous group found in the Peruvian lowlands. Seemingly isolated, they actually have a long history of engaging in networks of trade with outside groups, argues Bartholomew Dean in this first ever ethnography of the group.