Science and Society in Latin America: Peripheral Modernities 0429561156, 9780429561153

Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis: Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America 3031340558, 9783031340550

This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techn

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Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis: Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America 3031340558, 9783031340550

This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techn

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Science in Latin America: A History 9780292795716

Science in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Azt

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Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America 9781626371552

Long assumed to be an unchanging and unquestioned bulwark of established power and privilege, religion in Latin America

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Beyond the Megacity: New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America 9781487539719

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban

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Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions (Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America) 1108738885, 9781108738880

This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the ex

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Beyond Imported Magic. Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America [1 ed.] 9780262027458, 9780262526203, 2013046628

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The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America) [New ed.] 9781009263429, 9781009263436, 1009263439

The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deteriorat

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Latin America Otherwise : Shining and Other Paths : War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995 9780822398059, 0822398052

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Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times 9780822380788

Essays in collection argue that Latin American legal institutions were both mechanisms of social control and unique aren

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