Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life, Amy Chazkel, 2011, Duke University Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
Tag: Social history
In brief: I’m Neither Here Nor There
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I’m Neither Here Nor There: Mexican’s Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty, Patricia Zavella, 2011, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
In brief: Accounting for Violence
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Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America, Edited by Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne, 2011, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, Uruguay
In brief: Workshop of Revolution
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Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810, Lyman L Johnson, 2011, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Massacre culture
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Two eloquent studies of the drug war deliver different assessments of its origins… but both follow the trail of blood back to cynical policymakers in the US and Mexico
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Between empires
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An examination of the effort at ‘annexation by acclimation’ by the occupying US in late 19th-century Cuba offers clues to contemporary antipathy between the countries
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
This way to modernity: whites only
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The story of industrialization in Peru confirms that nation-state formation is premised upon de-Indianization – with significant implications for the future
Categories: Peru, South America
Banged to rights
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Latin American struggles against ecological damage figure prominently in the global debate about environmental rights
Categories: Brazil, Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America
Labour lure
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The Bracero programme in which Mexicans entered the US legally to work created a new, transnational subject
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
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Categories: Mexico, North America, United States