Browse by Subject: Latin American Studies

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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.

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Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution

No other book reveals so much about the anxieties and clandestine plans that have shaped Cubans' lives during the final years of the Fidel Castro era.

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Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State, 1941–1969

In this intimate and enlightening work, Ismael García-Colón uses ethnography, political and economic theory, and primary and secondary historical sources to paint a compelling and human portrait of the land redistribution program.

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Gender and Democracy in Cuba