This book is the first comparative analysis of the events of Latin American poitics in the 1980's and 1990's and their imploications for the very nature of the new democracies in the region.
This book is the first comparative analysis of the events of Latin American poitics in the 1980's and 1990's and their imploications for the very natu...
After a long era of military rule, the South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-term historical assessment of the main features of civil-military relations in this region, from independence in the early nineteenth century to the current process of democratic consolidation, with special attention to the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru.
After a long era of military rule, the South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a lo...
Modern Brazil, a collection of original essays, views the largest country in South America through the multiple lenses of political science, economics, telecommunications, and religion. The editors, Michael L. Conniff and Frank D. McCann, have provided a frame for this analysis of a complex society by centering on the elites, those who run national affairs, and the masses, those poor and working-class people who have little direct influence on them.
Discussing the political elites from regional, national, and military standpoints are, respectively, Joseph L. Love and Bert J....
Modern Brazil, a collection of original essays, views the largest country in South America through the multiple lenses of political science, ec...
The subject of missions--formal efforts at religious conversion of native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers--is one that renders the modern student a bit uncomfortable. Where the mission enterprise was actuated by true belief it strikes the modern sensibility as fanaticism; where it sprang from territorial or economic motives it seems the rankest sort of hypocrisy. That both elements--greed and real faith--were usually present at the same time is bewildering. In this book seven scholars attempt to create a "new" mission history that deals honestly with the actions and philosophic...
The subject of missions--formal efforts at religious conversion of native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers--is one that renders the modern...
This is the second and final volume of a collection of studies on the role of the state in capital accumulation in Latin America. Volume One included a general historical and conceptual introduction and case studies of Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The present volume covers the remaining countries of South America (with the exception of Paraguay). Together, the ten countries examined in the two volumes represent 89% of the Latin American population and 94% of the continent's GDP.
This is the second and final volume of a collection of studies on the role of the state in capital accumulation in Latin America. Volume One included ...
