El interés académico en la política de América Latina se ha intensificado en los últimos decenios. Hechos como el Tratado de Libre comercio de américa del Norte lo han hecho imperativo para que los estudiantes puedan captar la historia y las posibles direcciones del campo político. El profesor Camp ha compilado trece ensayos que ofrecen información importante y al día sobre este tema crucial.
Los ensayos aquí reunidos corresponden al rico pensamiento político y social que vive América Latina. Su objetivo es analizar no sólo la teoría sino la práctica de la teoría de la democracia, del Estado y de la revolución en países que tienen casi dos siglos de haber alcanzado su independencia política y de haberse propuesto ser verdaderos estados-nación.
Entrelazando en una visión dialéctica y totalizadora los elementos que condujeron a la formación de un capitalismo dependiente de los países centrales, con las luchas con que los pueblos combatieron la impronta capitalista, Cueva nos presenta la historia de América Latina, desde la íantesala del subdesarrolloî, en la época colonial, hasta los problemas y tendencias actuales.
"A culmination of the author's earlier research and writing on the tone and content of Peru's 19th-century 'political culture.' This sizeable study focuses on the Civilista era and argues that there existed a concerted attempt by a group of 'vanguard intellectuals' at the Lima Univeristy to create a cultural consensus regarding the nature of citizenship in their nation. The War of the Pacific did not completely deter these efforts to define the characteristics and responsibilities of citizenship. Notes that the campaign was renewed during the civilian presidency of Nicolás de Piérola during the late 1890s. Not made fully clear whether this Lima vanguard in its search for illusive concept of citizenship, which still remains in question today, may not have been looking to one of Europe's most concrete models, the Napoleonic Civil Code"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields’ distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, US and international politics, and domestic constituencies. The authors were chosen for their long-standing interest in the intellectual evolution of their fields. They describe the origins and histories of US-based Area Studies programs, highlighting their complex, generative, and sometimes contentious relationships with the social science and humanities disciplines and their diverse contributions to the regions of the world with which they are concerned.
With contributions from leading experts, Culture and National Security in the Americas examines the most influential historical, geographic, cultural, political, economic, and military considerations shaping national security policies throughout the Americas. In this volume, contributors explore the actors and institutions responsible for perpetuating security cultures over time and the changes and continuities in contemporary national security policies.
Este libro se propone examinar la historicidad de los significados socioculturales del baile en la América mulata, especialmente en el Caribe: un espacio relacional de sociedades que se han distinguido por su insistencia, pasión y creatividad en el baile y cuyas músicas y bailes mismos han tenido repercusiones amplias evidentes a nivel internacional. Incluye un ensayo introductorio de Aníbal Quijano.
Este libro explora las complejas dinámicas políticas en Tacna durante un periodo crucial de su historia: los años inmediatamente posteriores a su reincorporación al Perú tras medio siglo de ocupación chilena (1929-1934). A través de un minucioso análisis de la prensa local, el autor examina cómo diferentes actores políticos — especialmente el APRA y la Unión Revolucionaria — buscaron construir legitimidad en un territorio que enfrentaba tanto los desafíos de la reintegración nacional como los efectos de la crisis económica global. La investigación revela cómo estos grupos movilizaron la memoria del "cautiverio" y articularon distintas visiones del pasado, presente y futuro de Tacna para ganar apoyo popular. El estudio presta especial atención a las estrategias discursivas empleadas en periódicos como La Nación, La Verdad y Justicia, demostrando cómo la prensa se convirtió en arena principal de las disputas por el poder simbólico y político en la región. El libro ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre un periodo poco estudiado de la historia fronteriza peruano-chilena, contribuyendo a nuestra comprensión de cómo las comunidades procesan experiencias...
The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access ‘who’s who’ with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference. The relevant original and secondary sources are also listed in a comprehensive bibliography. Providing a clear reference guide for students, to who was who and when they ruled in the dynasties and other ruler-lists for the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern worlds – primarily European and Middle Eastern but including available information on Africa and Asia and the pre-Columbian Americas. The trilogy accesses and interprets the original data plus any modern controversies and disputes over names and dating, reflecting on the shifts and widening of focus in student and academic studies. Each volume contains league tables of rulers’ ‘records’, and an extensive bibliographical guide to the relevant personnel and dynasties, plus any controversies, so readers can consult these for extra details and know exactly where to go for which information. All...
Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdowns? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences. And even when the consequences of violence are studied, its effects are usually limited to consideration of preexisting conflict that originally spawned the violence. In Terrorism and Democratic Stability, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stability, terrorism and state responses to terrorism must be studied together. Her innovative approach identifies citizen support as a key factor in the state's ability to sustain democracy and achieve stability. Her focus is Uruguay, Peru, and Spain.
Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.
In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class—the oligarchy—consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were growing rich in a rapidly expanding global economy. Examining these immensely powerful groups, Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. He then sketches a fine-grained portrait of three prominent Peruvian families, providing a vivid window into the everyday exercise of power. Here we see the oligarchs arranging the deportation of “political undesirables,” controlling labor through means subtle and brutal, orchestrating press campaigns, extending credit on easy terms to rising military officers, and financing the overthrow of an unfriendly government. Gilbert concludes by answering three questions: What were the sources of oligarchic power? What were the forces that undermined it? Why did oligarchies persist longer in some countries than in others? His clear, comprehensible, and illuminating analysis will...
El análisis del desarrollo de cualquier economía nacional latinoamericana requiere su inserción en el cuadro regional, del mismo modo que exige una nítida percepción del comportamiento de los polos dinámicos de la economía mundial. Frente a esto, el estudiante de economía o de historia económica tiende a recurrir a referencias regionales, y se interesa cada vez más por el análisis comparativo de las experiencias nacionales.
L'histoire agraire du Pérou contemporain est exemplaire parce que typique de l'histoire agraire néo-coloniale du continent sud-américain et, au-delà, des pays dits « sous-développés ». Elle concerne ce qui, jusqu'à une date récente, formait l'essentiel de l'activité économique occupant la majorité de la population du pays. Elle explique la situation sociale critique à laquelle on parvient dans les Andes et en Amérique Latine des 1910-1920 au moment de la Révolution mexicaine, et plus encore de 1960 à nos jours. L'ouvrage se propose de restituer les origines et le développement de cette histoire jusqu'au lendemain de la première guerre mondiale, période où l'essentiel des structures et des contradictions agraires sont déjà mises en place. Ce livre est utile à tous ceux qui, au-delà de la « critique des armes » à laquelle a été soumis récemment le sous-continent latino-américain, cherchent á comprendre les conditions historiques qui ont donné naissance á cette critique.
"El flujo de la vida en los Andes reúne una serie de estudios y reflexiones de Catherine Allen sobre la ontología y el sistema de creencias y representaciones colectivas en el mundo andino. Medio siglo de trabajo elaborado a partir de hondas experiencias vivenciales y prolongadas investigaciones etnográcas ha permitido a la autora, a partir de la observación de las prácticas y rituales de la comunidad de Sonqo, en la región del Cuzco, llegar a una luminosa exploración del «animismo» andino, sobre todo a partir de las prácticas relacionadas al consumo de las hojas de coca y de alcohol. La expresión designa un modo de pensar y vivir el mundo de manera pragmática y profundamente ecológica, sobre la presunción de que todas los seres y objetos — humanos y no humanos— están conectados en una red de relaciones mutuas. El «animismo» es el leitmotiv de El flujo de la vida en los Andes; sin embargo, el libro aborda varios otros temas de carácter arqueológico y etnohistórico. La autora muestra, a través de una serie de magistrales análisis, cómo la etnografía contemporánea, aunque centrada en un lugar y un momento histórico determinados, puede contribuir a la...
Historia de Colombia, en contexto. Orígenes, desarrollos y legados ofrece una mirada panorámica a la historia de nuestro país, privilegiando la visión del bosque por sobre la de los árboles. Su propósito es ayudar a reconocernos como una sociedad con un pasado extenso y complejo, y así acercarnos al descubrimiento del alma colombiana, herramienta indispensable para afrontar los desafíos del futuro. La obra está compuesta por cuatro capítulos distribuidos en dos volúmenes. Este segundo volumen abarca la disolución del imperio español y las independencias en las primeras décadas del siglo XIX, el surgimiento de las naciones hispanoamericanas como repúblicas y la evolución de Colombia como nación soberana en los últimos dos siglos. Está dirigida a quienes se interesan por las humanidades y, más allá de la historia, por otras disciplinas de las ciencias sociales. En suma, es un ensayo pensado para toda persona con sensibilidad social. Incluye: Una perspectiva global de la historia del país, priorizando el contexto general por encima de los eventos aislados. Un análisis de lo que fue el proceso de la disolución del Imperio español hasta la independencia y...
Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of postindependence, this collection of original essays draws attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals: idealistic visions and fiscal restraints. Liberals, Politics, and Power focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latin Americans who applied liberal ideology to the founding and maintenance of new states. The impact of liberalism in Latin America, the contributors show, is best understood against the larger backdrop of struggles that pitted regional demands against the pressures of foreign finance, a powerful church against a decentralized state, and aristocratic desire to retain privilege against rising demands for social mobility. Moving beyond the traditional historiographical division between Eurocentric and dependency theories, the essays attempt to account for a uniquely Latin American liberal ideology and politics by exploring the political dynamics of such countries as Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru. Contributors discuss liberal efforts to build a viable legal order through elections and to implement a means of public finance that could fund the states' operations....
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Hace treinta años el Perú, comoelresto de América Latina, era confrontado a una importante agitación agraria que motivó dos "reformas agrarias" sucesivas-en 1964 y 1968-. A parte de unos análisis de carácter estadístico o periodístico, raras eran entonces las obras de carácter científico que intentaban comprender las raíces de esa situación. En ese sentido, cuando el autor presentó su trabajo "Historia del capitalismo agrario" en 1973 en la Sorbonne de París, hizo un esfuerzo pionero que después fue seguido por otras obras -peruanas o extranjeras- también dedicadas a la historia agraria andina. Reeditar en español, veinte años después, la obra publicada primero en francés, tiene como propósito hacer reflexionar a un público más amplio sobre la evolución de la cuestión y de la historiografía agrarias andinas, no solamente desde hace un cuarto de siglo, sino desde la instalación y consolidación de la estructura rural del Perú después de la conquista y la independencia.
Uses oral histories to analyze Peruvian agrarian reform carried out by the left-leaning military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado between 1969 and 1999, highlighting struggles to dismantle models of social experimentation after disillusion with the fai
With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, the sixth edition of Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a representative cross-section of many of the most significant revolutions of the modern era. Students can trace the historical development of eleven revolutions using a five-factor analytical framework. Attention is devoted to clearly explaining all relevant concepts and events, the roles of key leaders, and the interrelation of each revolutionary movement with international economic and political developments and conflicts. New to this edition: Expanded coverage of women and revolution with profiles of individual women revolutionaries. Coverage of the recent student movement in Hong Kong as well as economic developments in China, Chinese international influence and international economic development projects, and trade relations with the US during the Trump administration. Changes in US policy toward Cuba during the Trump administration. Examination of the cancellation of the Iran nuclear agreement by the Trump administration, Trump administration policies towards Iran, the impacts on Iran and Iranian reactions, and...
This investigation of the history of epidemics in various parts of Peru during the twentieth century opens up a new field for Latin American studies to include health and disease. These are important areas of the past that enable us to understand better the living conditions of people, the role of state authority and the dynamics of social movement.
Winner of the 2020 “Outstanding Academic Title” Award, created by Choice Magazine. In Negotiating Space in Latin America, edited by Patricia Vilches, contributors approach spatial practices from multidisciplinary angles. Drawing on cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, geography, history, literary studies, sociology, tourism, and current events, the volume advances innovative conceptualizations on spatiality and treats subjects that range from nineteenth century-nation formation to twenty-first century social movements. Latin America has endured multiple spatial transformations, which contributors analyze from the perspective of the urban, the rural, the market, and the political body. The essays collected here signal how spatial processes constantly shape societal interactions and illuminate the complex relationships between humans and space, emphasizing the role of spatiality in our actions and perceptions. Contributors: Gail A. Bulman, Ana María Burdach Rudloff, James Craine, Angela N. DeLutis-Eichenberger, Carolina Di Próspero, Gustavo Fares, Jennifer Hayward, Silvia Hirsch, Edward Jackiewicz, Magdalena Maiz-Peña, Lucía Melgar, Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Luis H....
Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system’s legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial...
This book tells the intriguing story of the multi-class coalition that formed to overthrow Somoza's Nicaraguan government in July of 1979. Mark Everingham offers personal accounts from members of the elite class, to determine the factors that led them to join the popular class in support of the Sandinista uprising.
Alan Garcia became President of Peru in July 1985. This book examines his administration and its effects on Peru. The author argues that initially Garcia was successful in tackling the countries problems but that when he left office in 1990 Peru's social, political and economic ills looked worse.
The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United States over the past several decades have put liberal defenders of poverty relief and social insurance programs on the defensive. In this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy since World War II, William Epstein argues that this defense is not worth mounting&—that the claimed successes of American social programs are not sustained by evidence. Rather than their failure being the result of inadequate implementation or political resistance stemming from the culture wars, these programs and their built-in limitations actually do represent what the vast majority of people in this country want them to be. However much people may speak in favor of welfare, the proof of what they really want is in the pudding of the social policies that are actually legislated. The stinginess of America&’s welfare system is the product of basic American values rooted in the myth of &“heroic individualism&” and reinforced by a commitment to social efficiency, the idea that social services need to be minimal and compatible with current social arrangements.
With research based on extensive primary sources, the author examines the activities of the Methodist mission in Peru, in particular its educational work, within the Peruvian socioeconomic formation and its ideological and intellectual changes. Yet her study goes beyond Methodist boundaries: Social Gospel doctrine and educational theory, which link American Progressivism (especially John Dewey’s pedagogical ideas) with Christianity, are also treated at an interdenominational level. The book contends that Methodist schools constituted an educational system of their own within a socioeconomic formation of uneven character, a society where an imperialist presence was interwoven with pre-capitalist as well as local incipient capitalist forms. The author’s analysis of the political dimension of missionary work—from the quest for religious freedom to the attempt to exert influence on social movements—leads her to consider the relationships among APRA leaders, the missionaries, and the interdenominational Committee on Cooperation in Latin America. Bruno-Jofré argues that Social Gospel doctrines, although couched in reformist language, were ultimately a vehicle of North American...
Collection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation.
"Examines the life and poetry of Magda Portal, a major figure in Latin American revolutionary politics. Includes a selection of poems available for the first time in English translation"--Provided by publisher.
The acute economic pressures of the 1980s have forced virtually all of Latin America and Africa and some countries in Asia into painful austerity programs and difficult economic reforms. Scholars have intensively analyzed the economics of this situation, but they have given much less attention to the political forces involved. In this volume a number of eminent contributors analyze the politics of adjustment in thirteen countries and nineteen governments, drawing comparisons not only across the full set of cases but also within clusters selected to clarify specific issues. Why do some governments respond promptly to signs of economic trouble, while others muddle indecisively for years? Why do some confine their response to temporary macroeconomic measures, while others adopt broader, even sweeping, programs of reform? What leads some countries to experiment with heterodox approaches, while most, however reluctantly, pursue orthodox courses? Why, confronted with intense political protest, have some governments persisted while others have altered or abandoned course? The answers to these questions are political, not economic, and they are examined here by Thomas M. Callaghy, Stephan ...
An account of the way social relations governing the production of cotton in Peru's South Coast changed as capitalism penetrated Peru's agrarian base; the analysis is unusual in that the author looks at the plantation system from a "peasant" poi
Comparison of political aspects of economic policy aiming at income redistribution in Argentina, Chile and Peru - focuses on the policy- making process, comparing the approaches of populist, reformist and radical political leadership; discusses inflation and investment policy, trade policy, balance of payments, tax reform, land reform, wage policy, public expenditure on social services, etc.; considers trade union attitudes and landowners, rural workers, entrepreneurs and employers attitudes, and armed forces political opposition.
Since the mid-1960s it has been apparent that authoritarian regimes are not necessarily doomed to extinction as societies modernize and develop, but are potentially viable (if unpleasant) modes of organizing a society's developmental efforts. This realization has spurred new interest among social scientists in the phenomenon of authoritarianism and one of its variants, corporatism.The sixteen previously unpublished essays in this volume provide a focus for the discussion of authoritarianism and corporatism by clarifying various concepts, and by pointing to directions for future research utilizing them. The book is organized in four parts: a theoretical introduction; discussions of authoritarianism, corporatism, and the state; comparative and case studies; and conclusions and implications. The essays discuss authoritarianism and corporatism in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Now in its third edition, Latin America since Independence explores the region’s rich and diverse history through carefully selected stories, primary source documents, maps, and tables that offer a diverse approach to dominant historical narratives. While histories of the "other" Americas often link disparate histories through revolutionary or tragic narratives, this text begins with the assumption that our efforts to imagine a common past for nearly thirty countries are deeply problematic. Without losing sight of chronology or regional trends, the book offers a distinctive conceptualization of the region as a diverse social landscape with a multiplicity of peoples and voices. Each chapter introduces students to a specific historical issue, which in turn raises questions about the history of the Americas as a whole. Key themes include: Race and Citizenship Inequality and Economic Development Politics and Rights Foreign Interventions Social and Cultural Movements Globalization Violence and Civil Society The Environment Chapters also include timelines highlighting important dates and suggestions for further reading. This third edition has been updated throughout and includes a new ...
Like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Peruvian Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (1895–1979) was one of Latin America’s key revolutionary leaders, well known across national boundaries. Iñigo García-Bryce’s biography of Haya chronicles his dramatic political odyssey as founder of the highly influential American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), as a political theorist whose philosophy shifted gradually from Marxism to democracy, and as a seasoned opposition figure repeatedly jailed and exiled by his own government. García-Bryce spotlights Haya’s devotion to forging populism as a political style applicable on both the left and the right, and to his vision of a pan-Latin American political movement. A great orator who addressed gatherings of thousands of Peruvians, Haya fired up the Aprismo movement, seeking to develop "Indo-America” by promoting the rights of Indigenous peoples as well as laborers and women. Steering his party toward the center of the political spectrum through most of the Cold War, Haya was elected president in 1962—but he was blocked from assuming office by the military, which played on his rumored homosexuality. Even so, Haya’s insistence that...
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