By Robert Neustadt
June 12, 2012
Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that are often explained away in the vague name of postmodern fragmentation. ( Con)Fusing Signs ...
By Maria Teresa Vázquez-Castillo
May 12, 2012
This book analyzes [ejido] land as space of urbanization and location of economic activities and capital and land privatization as a redistributive process with local, urban, regional and global consequences....
By Juan Carlos Calleros-Alarcón
March 13, 2012
This book examines the political evolution of the judiciary – a usually overlooked political actor – and its capacity to contribute to the process of democratic consolidation in Latin America during the 1990s. Calleros analyzes twelve countries in order to assess the independence, impartiality, ...
By Arnulfo Valdivia-Machuca
October 19, 2009
This book analyzes the history and structure of the intricate system of informal negotiation and secret dealings between the Mexican government and big businessmen in the process of Mexican industrialization between 1936 and 1984. In order to do this, State and Business Groups in Mexico ...
By David George
December 01, 1999
Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period deals with the theater produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially postmodernist directors, women playwrights, and theater companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the...
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By Manuel de Jesus Hernandez Gutierrez, David Foster
March 01, 1997
Illuminates major themes and artistic visions The only comprehensive anthology of Chicano literature, this work charts the rise and evolution of contemporary Mexican American writing in the context of its major themes: the search for identity, feminism, conservatism, revisionism, homoeroticism, and...
By Eva P. Bueno
September 01, 1995
This is Volume 2 THE MONOPOLY ISSUE AND ANTITRUST 1900-1917, part of a compilation of 12 articles on BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA SINCE 1870 and provides a very broad and representative selection of the scholarly literature found in learned journals on the subject of government-business ...