wyszukanych pozycji: 36
I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America
ISBN: 9780842024969 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early conquerors of the New World rapidly established themselves as urban lords.
When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early...
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207,48 zł |
Ethics for Managers: Philosophical Foundations and Business Realities
ISBN: 9781138919501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ethics for Managers introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings of business ethics and translates this theory into practical terms, demonstrating the moral implications of the decisions managers make. This edition features new material on global ethics, the financial downturn, and ethical sustainability.
New, student-friendly features include:
Ethics for Managers introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings of business ethics and translates this theory into practical terms...
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305,98 zł |
Ethics for Managers: Philosophical Foundations and Business Realities
ISBN: 9781138919495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book introduces the student to the philosophical underpinnings of business ethics then translates this theory into practical terms, demonstrating the moral implications of the decisions managers make. The new edition features new material on global ethics, the financial downturn, sustainability, and ethics in a digital age. Gilbert has also worked to include more student-friendly features:
This book introduces the student to the philosophical underpinnings of business ethics then translates this theory into practical terms, demonstrat... |
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752,12 zł |
Legitimacy and Legitimation
ISBN: 9780813223278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertility. Several studies are devoted to marriage and the annulment process; the acquiring and disposal of church property, including...
CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are...
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288,38 zł |
A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America's Long Cold War
ISBN: 9780822347200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to...
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 19...
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513,51 zł |
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
ISBN: 9780822320999 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of understanding the role that U.S. actors and agencies have played in the region during the postcolonial period.
Exploring a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century encounters in Latin America,... New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questio...
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145,18 zł |
Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico
ISBN: 9780822314523 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. While most accounts have emphasized either the role of peasants and peasant rebellions or that of state formation in Mexico's past, these original essays reveal the state's day-to-day engagement with grassroots society by examining popular cultures and forms of the state simultaneously and in relation to one another.
Structured in the form of a dialogue between a distinguished array of... Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in ...
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513,51 zł |
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, 81
ISBN: 9780822364986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With this special issue, the "Hispanic American Historical Review "explores the vital work in gender and sexuality by leading historians of Latin America. This collection offers readers a look at the current state of gender and sexuality studies areas of enormous growth and excitement in Latin American scholarship as well as the dynamic potential of the discipline s future.
Sueann Caulfield, one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin American gender studies, leads off with an insightful historiographical analysis of the field. Building on the foundation laid by Caulfield, a forum of... With this special issue, the "Hispanic American Historical Review "explores the vital work in gender and sexuality by leading historians of Latin Amer...
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82,94 zł |
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North
ISBN: 9780822327790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political as both a theme of historical analysis and a stance for historical practice to investigate the ways in which power, agency, and Latin American identity have been transformed over the past few decades.
Taking careful... Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not...
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492,77 zł |
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822330424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 808 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "The Mexico Reader" is a vivid introduction to "muchos Mexicos" the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico including its difficult, uneven modernization; the ways the country has been profoundly shaped not only by Mexicans but also by those outside its borders; and the extraordinary economic, political, and ideological power of the Roman Catholic Church. The book looks at what...
"The Mexico Reader" is a vivid introduction to "muchos Mexicos" the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary...
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129,62 zł |
Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico
ISBN: 9780822314677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. While most accounts have emphasized either the role of peasants and peasant rebellions or that of state formation in Mexico's past, these original essays reveal the state's day-to-day engagement with grassroots society by examining popular cultures and forms of the state simultaneously and in relation to one another.
Structured in the form of a dialogue between a distinguished array of... Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in ...
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129,62 zł |
Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780822355328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process, they engage major questions about the revolution. How did the revolutionary process and its aftermath modernize the nation's economy and political system and transform the lives of ordinary...
In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, conseq...
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114,06 zł |
A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War
ISBN: 9780822347378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to...
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 19...
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129,62 zł |
In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War
ISBN: 9780822341215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing on U.S. policy objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the Cuban Missile Crisis) and drawing largely on U.S. government sources. Moreover, only rarely have U.S. foreign relations scholars engaged productively with Latin American historians who analyze how the...
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either t...
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129,62 zł |
Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
ISBN: 9780822327189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume s contributors historians, popular writers, anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics weigh in on a wealth of topics...
During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other stat...
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140,00 zł |
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
ISBN: 9780822320852 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of understanding the role that U.S. actors and agencies have played in the region during the postcolonial period.
Exploring a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century encounters in Latin America,... New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questio...
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580,94 zł |
Mexico S New Cultural History, 79: ¿Una Lucha Libre?
ISBN: 9780822364955 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this special issue of the "Hispanic American Historical Review," the editors stepped outside the sometimes narrow confines of technical academic writing. They sought contributors who were willing to dive into an honest, open discussion of Mexico s cultural history. The result is a vigorous, complex, innovative, and occasionally humorous discussion of the pros and cons of a new cultural historical approach to Mexican history.
All the contributors to this issue agree on the importance and relevance of a historical study of culture in its most inclusive sense. But there is much less... In this special issue of the "Hispanic American Historical Review," the editors stepped outside the sometimes narrow confines of technical academic wr...
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57,00 zł |
Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
ISBN: 9780822327073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume s contributors historians, popular writers, anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics weigh in on a wealth of topics...
During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other stat...
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534,26 zł |
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North
ISBN: 9780822327899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political as both a theme of historical analysis and a stance for historical practice to investigate the ways in which power, agency, and Latin American identity have been transformed over the past few decades.
Taking careful... Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not...
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124,44 zł |
Revolution from Without: Yucatan, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924
ISBN: 9780822308225 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "In addition to the relevance provided by contemporary events, the republication of Revolution from Without comes at a particularly effervescent moment in Latin American revolutionary studies. An ongoing discourse among political sociologists, anthropologists and historians has greatly enriched our understanding of the political economy and social history of revolutions and popular insurgencies."--from the preface to the paperback edition
"In addition to the relevance provided by contemporary events, the republication of Revolution from Without comes at a particularly effervescen...
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124,44 zł |