Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of...... more

, including mythology, life-experience tales, legends, family tales, ballads, folk and fairy tales. She also explains storytelling...... more

Ever since French explorer Samuel de Champlain s first taste of what he called la mer douce -- the freshwater sea...... more

In the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC) efforts to raise the awareness of the importance of ... more

available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world s literature in affordable, high quality...... more

This evaluation presents an independent assessment of the World Bank s support for pension reform activities focusing...... more

available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world s literature in affordable, high quality...... more

treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered...... more

rise to one of Latin America s earliest and most militant labor movements. Responding to both the demands of workers...... more

profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature...... more

profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature...... more

thousand guises and symbolizes dozens of different historical lessons. In A Date Which Will Live, historian Emily S. Rosenberg...... more

jazz became so widely performed in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s but also why it was so controversial. Drawing on...... more

studying U.S. colonial rule in the context of other imperialist ventures. A necessary expansion of critical focus, The American...... more

. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with...... more

spoke with leading Filipino nurses across the United States. She combines their perspectives with various others--including...... more

Winner of the 2001 President s Award of the Social Science History Association In the Shadows of State and Capital...... more

Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of t... more

In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S...... more

reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume s contributors--historians...... more

an analysis of the PCI s attempts to cope with these problems in an effort to maintain its organization and subculture...... more

period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously...... more