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Boom de las microfinanzas el modelo Latinoamericano visto desde adentro /

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Natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean : beyond booms and busts? / by Sinnott, Emily

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Latin America : new challenges to growth and stability /

Table of Contents: “…Latin America: rising to new challenges / Dora Iakova, Sebastián Sosa, and Alejandro Werner -- Potential growth in Latin America / Sebastián Sosa, Evridiki Tsounta, and Hye Sun Kim -- After the boom: commodity prices and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean / Bertrand Gruss -- Commodity price cycles: the perils of mismanaging the boom / Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa -- Terms-of-trade booms: saving-investment patterns and a new metric of income windfall / Gustavo Adler and Nicolas E. …”
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Cosmopolitanism in the Americas by Fojas, Camilla, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Cosmopolitanism in the Americas : becoming worldly, becoming modern -- Thresholds of cosmopolitanism : prefaces to modernity and other-worldly readings -- Cosmopolitan topographies of Paris : citing Balzac -- Cosmopolitan decadence : writing inversions -- American cosmopolis : the world's Columbian Exposition and Chicago across the Americas -- Literary cosmotopias : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Ariel and Cosmopolis -- Conclusions.…”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? …”
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Roman virtues the education of Latin American clergy in Rome, 1858-1962 / by Edwards, Lisa Marie, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Latin American seminaries, 1850-1950 -- Becoming "Roman at heart: spiritual and academic training in the Roman colleges -- In a truly Catholic spirit: Latin American seminarians in Rome -- Supporting the Colegio Pío Latino Americano -- Romanizing Latin America: alumni at work.…”
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Looking South the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 / by Delpar, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Beginnings -- Laying the foundations -- Early historians -- The rise of anthropology -- Geography and the other social sciences -- Latin Americanists and the world of policy making -- Maturity and institutionalization -- A decade of expansion, 1935-1945 -- Marking time, 1945-1958 -- The boom years, 1958-1975 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.…”
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The everyday Atlantic : time, knowledge, and subjectivity in the twentieth-century Iberian and Latin American newspaper chronicle / by Gentic, Tania, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Reading time, knowledge, and power in the Ibero-American Atlantic -- The Mediterranean is the Atlantic : imperialisme and ideology in Eugeni d'Ors' Catalan gloses -- Reimagining America, reproducing Europe : ambivalence and intersubjectivity in Germán Arciniegas' "indigenous" ethics -- Knowledge beyond borders : Clarice Lispector chronicles affect in dictatorship Brazil -- The virtual subject : Carlos Monsiváis, media time and Mexico's "citizens-on-their-way-to-becoming-citizens" -- Conclusion: From chronicle to blog : (digital) knowledge and the Atlantic subject as palimpsest.…”
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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan" -- Across the Atlantic to Spain -- Social movement : a song's journey across time and space -- Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song -- Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.…”
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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan" -- Across the Atlantic to Spain -- Social movement : a song's journey across time and space -- Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song -- Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.…”
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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino -- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña -- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman -- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick -- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius -- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz -- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino -- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym -- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. …”
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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino -- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña -- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman -- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick -- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius -- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz -- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino -- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym -- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. …”
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Población y desarrollo en América Latina /

Table of Contents: “…Icaza -- El crecimiento rápido de la población y la satisfacción de las necesidades de salud en los países de America Latina / Hugo Behm Rosas -- Educación, población y sociedad global en America Latina: crisis y perspectivas / Jorge Padua N. -- Población y vivienda en America Latina: perspectivas en las próximas decadas / Luis Ratinoff -- Comentario / Ricardo Jordán -- Comentario / Julio Páez Celis -- Relatería / Jose Gómez de León -- Efectos demográficos y socioeconómicos de los programas de planificación de familia en America Latina / Erica Taucher -- Efectos de los programas de planificación de familia en el desarrollo de los países de Centroamerica y Panamá / María Luisa García de Aybar y Jose Carvajal -- Tendencias recientes de la fecundidad en Colombia: algunas de sus implicaciones / Juan B. …”
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Población y desarrollo en América Latina /

Table of Contents: “…Icaza -- El crecimiento rápido de la población y la satisfacción de las necesidades de salud en los países de America Latina / Hugo Behm Rosas -- Educación, población y sociedad global en America Latina: crisis y perspectivas / Jorge Padua N. -- Población y vivienda en America Latina: perspectivas en las próximas decadas / Luis Ratinoff -- Comentario / Ricardo Jordán -- Comentario / Julio Páez Celis -- Relatería / Jose Gómez de León -- Efectos demográficos y socioeconómicos de los programas de planificación de familia en America Latina / Erica Taucher -- Efectos de los programas de planificación de familia en el desarrollo de los países de Centroamerica y Panamá / María Luisa García de Aybar y Jose Carvajal -- Tendencias recientes de la fecundidad en Colombia: algunas de sus implicaciones / Juan B. …”
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The resurgence of the Latin American left /

Table of Contents: “…/ Kurt Weyland -- The Political Left, the Export Boom, and the Populist Temptation / Robert R. Kaufman -- Social Policy and Redistribution : Chile and Uruguay / Jennifer Pribble, Evelyne Huber -- The Diversity of Left Party Linkages and Competitive Advantages / Samuel Handlin, Ruth Berins Collier -- The Left and Participatory Democracy: Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela / Benjamin Goldfrank -- The Left and Citizenship Rights / Debiorah J. …”
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Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 by Schuler, Friedrich Engelbert, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Before European and Japanese governments manipulated immigrants in the Americas -- Becoming useful : the first Japanese and German experiments with ethnic manipulations in the West -- Mexico discovers Japan as a potential strategic wedge against the United States -- [pt.] …”
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Practically Invisible : Coastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenticity / by Smith, Kimbra, 1970-

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Practically Invisible : Coastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenticity / by Smith, Kimbra, 1970-

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A history of book publishing in contemporary Latin America / by Sorá, Gustavo, 1966-

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Cultures of legality judicialization and political activism in Latin America /

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