Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru
ISBN: 9780226487441 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit--they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new. Drawing on pragmatist theories of social action, Revolutionizing Repertoires sets out to examine what happens when the repertoire of practices available to political actors is dramatically reconfigured. Taking as his case study the development of a distinctively Latin American style of populist mobilization, Robert S. Jansen analyzes...
Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit--they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mi...
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Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad
ISBN: 9781781382882 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepot to mainland South America. Trinidad's geographic position - seen as strategic by various imperial governments - led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial...
Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepot to mainland South America. Trinidad's geograph...
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586,37 zł |
An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo, 1850-1950
ISBN: 9781503602007 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, Sao Paulo is by far the most populated state in Brazil--double the size of the second-largest state. Its economy rivals that of Colombia or Venezuela, and its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. But how did Sao Paulo, once a frontier province of little importance, become one of the most vital agricultural and industrial regions of the world? This volume explores the transformation of Sao Paulo through an economic lens. Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein provide a synthetic overview of the growth of Sao Paulo from the years 1850-1950, analyzing...
Today, Sao Paulo is by far the most populated state in Brazil--double the size of the second-largest state. Its economy rivals that of Colombia or Ven...
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Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
ISBN: 9781786991584 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Zika virus has devastated lives and countless communities, leaving children across the Americas with severe disabilities as a result of the epidemic. Nowhere has this devastation been more deeply felt than in Alagoas, a small rural province in northeast Brazil. It was here that the most recent outbreak was first identified before spreading across the continent and beyond, with the region's poverty providing fertile ground for the Zika-bearing mosquitoes. In this thought-provoking and poignant work, anthropologist and filmmaker Debora Diniz travels throughout northeastern Brazil, tracing...
The Zika virus has devastated lives and countless communities, leaving children across the Americas with severe disabilities as a result of the epidem...
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91,52 zł |
Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
ISBN: 9781786991591 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Zika virus has devastated lives and countless communities, leaving children across the Americas with severe disabilities as a result of the epidemic. Nowhere has this devastation been more deeply felt than in Alagoas, a small rural province in northeast Brazil. It was here that the most recent outbreak was first identified before spreading across the continent and beyond, with the region's poverty providing fertile ground for the Zika-bearing mosquitoes. In this thought-provoking and poignant work, anthropologist and filmmaker Debora Diniz travels throughout northeastern Brazil, tracing...
The Zika virus has devastated lives and countless communities, leaving children across the Americas with severe disabilities as a result of the epidem...
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432,42 zł |
Botschafter der Revolution
ISBN: 9783110461817 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die sandinistische Revolution fuhrte zwischen 1977 und 1990 zu einem Boom transnationaler Solidaritat mit Nicaragua. Allein in der Bundesrepublik engagierten sich zeitweise uber 300 Gruppen aus dem linken Spektrum sowie aus christlichen und liberalen Kreisen fur die Ziele der Sandinisten.
Ein Schlussel zum Verstandnis der Nicaragua-Solidaritat liegt im erfolgreichen Aufbau eines transnationalen Netzwerks, uber das Informationen, mentale Bilder und Aktivisten zwischen beiden Landern zirkulieren konnten. Besonders die Vorstellungen, die unter den Solidaritatsbewegten zu Nicaragua kursierten,... Die sandinistische Revolution fuhrte zwischen 1977 und 1990 zu einem Boom transnationaler Solidaritat mit Nicaragua. Allein in der Bundesrepublik enga...
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326,71 zł |
3 Para - Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle
ISBN: 9781473898967 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. June 1982, and in the middle of a South Atlantic winter, the Falklands War is at its height. The Parachute Regiment has already been in action - 2 Para securing a hard fought victory at Darwin-Goose Green at a heavy price in killed and wounded including their CO, Lieutenant Colonel 'H' Jones, later awarded a posthumous VC.
Now, two weeks later, as they look up at the long, frost shattered spines of rock which stab the air from the summit of Mount Longdon on the outer ring of the Stanley defences, the 'toms' of 3 Para know it is their turn. As they prepare to assault their objectives... June 1982, and in the middle of a South Atlantic winter, the Falklands War is at its height. The Parachute Regiment has already been in action - 2 Par...
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Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
ISBN: 9780226499260 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. The project was a vast undertaking, and the decades since its 1990 completion have seen it mired in controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells that story, offering a uniquely insightful ethnography of Brazil's inequality politics. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among...
In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 A...
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139,23 zł |
Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
ISBN: 9780226499123 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. The project was a vast undertaking, and the decades since its 1990 completion have seen it mired in controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells that story, offering a uniquely insightful ethnography of Brazil's inequality politics. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among...
In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 A...
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Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, México: Sylvanus G. Morley 1946
ISBN: 9781407313719 / Angielski / Miękka / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ChichEn ItzA is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site, one of the largest and most accessible Maya archaeological areas in southern Mexico. The densely clustered architecture of the site core covers an area of at least 6.5 square kilometres, and smaller scale residential architecture extends for an unknown distance beyond the site core. Although the history of archaeological study of the site extends back over a century, the most significant and productive effort was that directed between 1924 and 1940 by Sylvanus G. Morley under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.... ChichEn ItzA is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site, one of the largest and most accessible Maya archaeological areas in southern Mexico. The d... |
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Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice
ISBN: 9781498537803 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using affirmative action to decrease racial inequality is the latest chapter of a long tradition of comparing Brazil and the United States with regard to race. Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice is timely for both countries as they struggle with racial justice in higher education. This project responds to the United States' dismantling of affirmative action programs and a belief that they have run their course. Data shows that, while affirmative action policies have contributed to a significant increase in the representation of...
Using affirmative action to decrease racial inequality is the latest chapter of a long tradition of comparing Brazil and the United States with regard...
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455,18 zł |
A Hero's Curse: The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela
ISBN: 9781849047951 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No up-to-date book on Venezuelan politics out there
No up-to-date book on Venezuelan politics out there
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Labor Justice Across the Americas: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780252083068 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the creative process in each nation. Their transnational and comparative approach advances a global...
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these ...
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152,57 zł |
Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart
ISBN: 9781501712883 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In 2008 Walmart acquired a controlling share in a large supermarket chain in Santiago, Chile. As...
A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by B...
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590,12 zł |
Laborers and Enslaved Workers: Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
ISBN: 9781785336294 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio's working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.
This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio's working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free a...
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From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
ISBN: 9781501713415 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas C. Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID's first years in Bolivia, including the country's 1964 military coup...
Thomas C. Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID's first years in Bolivia, including the country's 1964 military coup...
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132,22 zł |
Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru
ISBN: 9780806157474 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War
ISBN: 9781501713736 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars' work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the country's political conflicts. Steele shows how...
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug...
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239,11 zł |
Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory
ISBN: 9781503605046 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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503,64 zł |
Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory
ISBN: 9781503606012 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,04 zł |