Kategoria BISAC: History >> Latin America - General

Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated cultural studies, affording an incomplete record of the modern era. This edited volume presents an original analysis of the role of sound in Latin American and Caribbean societies, from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors examine the importance of sound in the purveyance of power, gender roles, race, community, religion, and populism. They also demonstrate how sound is essential to the formation of citizenship and nationalism....

In the first half of the twentieth century, classic populist leaders like the Perons in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil sought to create direct, personal ties between themselves and their followers. At the same time, they incorporated large numbers of previously excluded people into the body politic. The resurgence of democracy in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s brought with it two new waves of populism: first, the neopopulism of leaders like Salinas in Mexico and Fujimori in Peru, who promoted neoliberal solutions to the economic problems of the 1990s; and second, the radical populism...

Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated from--or unimportant to--central developments in Latin American history since independence.

• Presents nuanced issues in gender historiography for Latin America in a readable narrative for undergraduate students
• Offers brief, primary-source document excerpts at the end of each chapter that instructors can use to stimulate class discussion
• Adheres to a focus on motherhood, which allows for a coherent narrative that...

Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated from--or unimportant to--central developments in Latin American history since independence.

• Presents nuanced issues in gender historiography for Latin America in a readable narrative for undergraduate students
• Offers brief, primary-source document excerpts at the end of each chapter that instructors can use to stimulate class discussion
• Adheres to a focus on motherhood, which allows for a coherent narrative that...

Most important issues of today's world - such as development, human rights, and cultural pluralism - bear the unmistakable stamp of the transatlantic slave trade. In particular Africa's state of development can only be properly understood in the light of the widespread dismantling of...