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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Latin American History"”.
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The Parrot and the Cannon: Journalism, Literature and Politics in the Formation of Latin American Identities
… Literature and Politics in the Formation of Latin American Identities explores the emergence of literary journalism in Latin America as a central aspect in the formation of national identities. Focusing on five periods in Latin American history from the post-colonial times until the 1960s, it …
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The Harrison High School walkouts of 1968: struggle for equal schools and Chicanismo in Chicago
… Moreover, the Chicano Movement in Chicago is a history that at present remains largely unrecorded. This study examines archival evidence such as newspaper articles, intelligence reports, as well as oral interviews with key former students, and administrators of Harrison High School to chronicle …
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A UNIQUE CAPABILITY: THE 82D AIRBORNE DIVISION AND ITS MEMORY OF THE DOMINICAN INTERVENTION
… force representing the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) as a provisional Dominican government prepared for a democratic presidential election. Although operation Power Pack, the U.S. military name for the intervention, is one of the largest uses of armed force in U.S. – Latin …
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Poder absoluto violencia política en tres novelas de la dictadura Latinoamericana.
… la social, ha sido una constante de la realidad latinoamericana moderna, con frecuencia asociada a regímenes políticos dictatoriales que han infringido sistemáticamente en los derechos básicos de los ciudadanos. Como fuerza equilibradora, aparece la actuación de la Iglesia, aunque en muchas …
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Power, language, and culture: Teresa de la Parra in Latin American feminism
… de la Parra (1895-1936), a pioneer in modern Latin American feminism, utilizes several narrative strategies which enable her to communicate a feminist ideology: novelistic events, subversive language, and the revision of historical women's stories. In Ifigenia and Las memorias de Mama Blanca, …
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
… Mexico. These ships facilitated the exchange of American products, mostly silver, for Asian products, primarily textiles. This study explores the social and spatial mobility of chinos to show how trade between and within the Americas and Asia opened a new chapter in the social history of the …
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Curriculum Studies as an international conversation: cosmopolitanism in a Latin American key
… Anglo-Saxon field of Curriculum Studies and the Latin American educational tradition. Looking at these relations from the 1960s to the current moment, I seek to unpack the complexities involved in understanding Curriculum Studies as an international field. Although there are historical and …
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Aqui y alla (Here and There)
Aqu y All is a 22-minute experimental documentary that reflects on family as an emotional system that operates across generations by focusing on the passing of time, the possibilities of remembering and the construction of space as an ongoing historical and subjective process. The film creates an …
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The United States and Paraguay, 1845-1860: Misunderstanding, Miscalculation, and Misconduct
<p>In 1845 the United States had its first, if tentative diplomatic relations with the Government of Paraguay. The people and Government of the United States knew as little of Paraguay as they did of Japan. To the United States the nation of Paraguay was a secluded and unknown state. But at this …
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Delirio: The fantastic, the demonic, and the reel narratives from Nuevo Leon
This dissertation is about the "making of history." It is about the process of how certain events are laboriously imbedded in the story of a region or nation. It is also about how other events or narratives become phantasms that only surface at disparate moments. These phantasms move towards …
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The partisan politics that led to the Spanish-American War
… in leading the United States into the Spanish-American War. With the unprecedented economic depression that began in 1893, many American politicians exploited a rebellion in Cuba to distract Americans from their own financial problems. During the administration of Grover Cleveland politicians …
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Poverty on the Periphery: U.S. Implementation of Modernization Theory in the Alliance for Progress and the War on Poverty
… led to a resurfacing of dictatorships throughout Latin America and a doubling down by political machines within the local governments affected by the War on Poverty, in order to more firmly hold onto power.
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Chains of virtue: Seventeenth-century saints in Spanish colonial Lima
Seventeenth-century Lives of colonial saints in Peru reflect the Spanish colony's growing independence and changing missionary strategies. Lives of saints Luis Bertran, Francis Solano, Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, Juan Macias, Rose of Lima, Martin de Porras and the unrecognized Nicolas de Ayllon …
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Zona Libre: Conservatism, Urban Growth, and the Rise of the New Economy in the San Diego Borderlands
<p>Both the rise of conservatism as well as the neoliberal turn of the twentieth century have received much scholarly attention in recent decades. Often, these two subjects are examined separately, with the former focusing on questions of party realignment in the United States and the latter on …
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The Cold War and decolonization in British Guiana: The Anglo-American intervention and Guianese nationalist politics
… Guianese autonomy was limited by Anglo-American Cold War imperatives in the Caribbean. The decolonization of British Guiana became a struggle, and eventually a compromise, between British and American officials, as well as between the Anglo-American alliance and Guianese …
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Why Black Nationalism and Cuban Communism were incompatible during an Age of Revolution, ca. 1950 – 1970
… the violence that had been directed at African Americans over the years. Looking for a friend to help, they found an unlikely ally in Fidel Castro and his newly created revolutionary government that successfully challenged and defeated the U.S.-backed dictator. However, these movements had …
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From Gunboats to Good Neighbors: U.S. Naval Diplomacy in Peru, 1919-1942
… played in the evolution of U.S. policy toward Latin America during the interwar period, when the United States abandoned armed interventionism in favor of the policy of the "Good Neighbor." Specifically, it focuses on two oft-overlooked types of naval diplomacy the United States used to …
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Los Hijos Del Rey Benkos: Afro-Colombian Appropriation of A Historic Palenquero Identity and Its Legacy For Community Mobilization
<p>This is a study of subaltern mobilization. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Afro-Colombians mobilized to defend their human rights on the basis of a palenquero identity. This afro-descendant ethnic identity is based on a collective historical memory of maroon communities, which …
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