Latin American & Hispanic Studies

 Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on shanty..

This book studies developments from the early 1990s in the tax systems and regimes of Latin America. It provides a user friendly overiew of various tax regimes and also casts a critical eyeover the selected countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay)...

In this book, seven highly distinguished scholars map the emergence and development of Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching within the field of Hispanic Studies in the UK over the last thirty years. Each chapter explores current routes and future pathways for investigation into..

In this book, chapters explore current routes and future pathways for investigation into Spanish and Latin American cinema, theatre, sculpture, photography, and other visual-related areas. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies...

First published in 1989, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America provides a guide to the most important organizations, figures, events and themes in the contemporary politics of South America. The countries covered are Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, P..

This book examines the militarization of U.S. drug war policies in Latin America that took place in the mid-1980s and explores why this approach has continued despite its inability to achieve the government’s stated targets...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This nuanced book offers a rare in-depth analysis of Cuban immigrants’ social, cultural, economic, and political adaptation, their transformation of Miami into the "northern most Latin American city," and their cross-border engagement and homeland impact...

This nuanced book offers a rare in-depth analysis of Cuban immigrants’ social, cultural, economic, and political adaptation, their transformation of Miami into the "northern most Latin American city," and their cross-border engagement and homeland impact...

The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200-900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least 6 million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This unique resource is..

A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, The Mestizo Mind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock...

A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, The Mestizo Mind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock...