Latin American Regions
why do u think that Latin American nations resented American influence in the region ?
most were once rule by european countries and they had to fight for the freedom and they do not want uncle sugar to try to influence them!!!
Tu lu lu, Latin American regional day,08, Pearson College
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Melody Time (Disney Gold Classic Collection) $9.96 This is another collection of Disney shorts set to music, but this time the formula works. That’s predicated on the inherent strength of the individual pieces and almost all of them come through. Surprisingly, two American folk heroes, Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill, are the stars of this show, with rousty little tunes, humor, and compelling linear story lines (a rarity in most of these shorts). … |
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Metallica/Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax : The Big 4 – Live from Sofia, Bulgaria (5 CD/2 DVD Set) $69.98 This deluxe box set includes ‘The Big 4 Live From Sofia, Bulgaria’ two disc, region free DVD set with the full shows from all four bands along with behind the scenes and interview footage, five CD’s in slip cases with ALL the music, a 24-page booklet, a poster, photos of each band, and a Big 4 white guitar pick! All music and video footage was recorded on June 22, 2010 during one of the seven Big … |
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Carlos Fuentes [Lannan Literary Video Series] $50.00 Carlos Fuentes is a novelist and essayist whose books include The Death of Artemio Cruz, A New Time for Mexico, Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, The Orange Tree, and The Years with Laura Diaz. Mr. Fuentes was born in Panama and educated in schools in Mexico, the United States, and various cities of South America. A diplomat who has served as Mexico’s ambassador to France, he is currently a mem… |
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Caligula (2 Disc Uncensored and Uncut Version) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] $6.38 Disc 1. The Film: “Caligula” is Bob Guccione´s star-studded pornographic look into the world of Ancient Rome. It depicts the lusty and demented Caesar Caligula during his short-lived stint as Emperor of the mighty Roman Empire. While in power, Caligula had an affair with his sister and forced senators´ wives to prostitute themselves. Caligula was finally assassinated by his own officers and re… |
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Heidi – La Niña De Los Alpes En Espanol Vol.2 [NTSC / Region 1 - Latin American Import] $5.51 DVD En Español de la serie classica animada.Vol 2 incluye capitulos del 21 al 52. Las tiernas aventuras de una niña huerfana, que vive con su abuelo en las montañas suizas.Ella tiene un noble corazón y hará llorar y reir a grandes y a chicos…. |
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Borderlands/La Frontera, Third Edition: The New Mestiza $13.00 Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of what a “border” is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terra… |
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor $9.75 “Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book.”âAndrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes’s acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The ans… |
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The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes $13.10 The Unconquered tells the extraordinary tale of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet’s last uncontacted indigenous tribes. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, the author follows a 34-man team into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with the mysteri… |
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Leith’s Latin-American $15.98 Leith’s Latin-American |
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Book Of Latin American (Paper) $12 Book Of Latin American (Paper) |
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Latin American Literature $89.22 Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America (and the Caribbean) in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous tongues. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism. As such, the regions literature is often associated solely with this style (and its most famous exponent, Gabriel Garca Mrquez). This largely obscures a rich and complex tradition of literary production that dates back many centuries. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 116 Publication Date: 2009/12/29 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.27 inches |
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American Foreign Policy in Regions of Conflict By Wiarda, Howard J. $114.04 Americas regional foreign policy priorities are shifting, toward Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, and away from Europe and Russia. Wiarda examines these changes and the reasons for them in each of these regional areas in this comprehensive work on global perspective on American foreign policy. Designed as a text for introductory international relations, foreign policy, comparative politics, and world politics courses, this book succeeds in integrating these often separate subfields andshows how the study of comparative politics can enlighten foreign policy Author: Wiarda, Howard J. Series Title: American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century Subtitle: A Global Perspective Publication Date: 2011/05/15 Number of Pages: 194 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 5.75 Height: 8.75 |
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Baja to Patagonia: Latin American Adventures $35.04 Latin America is one of the hottest ecotourism destinations for the 90s. From Chile to Costa Rica, Venezuela to Mexico, these regions have long inspired myth, controversy and speculation. Naturalist/adventure writer Rice now tells of kayaking, canoeing, and backpacking the wilderness areas of Central and South America. Photos. Maps. Author: Rice, Larry Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 1993/09/20 Language: English Dimensions: 8.49 x 5.50 x 0.54 inches |
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Roots of Insurgency: Mexican Regions, 1750 1824 $79.66 Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoac n, and Guanajuato from the middle of the eighteenth century, and to assess their relationship to the widespread insurgency of the second decade of the nineteenth century. Author: Hamnett, Brian R./ Knight, Alan Series Title: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) Series Number: 59 Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2002/05/02 Language: English Dimensions: 8.62 x 5.66 x 0.72 inches |
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Latin American Cooking Across the USA $9.98 Latin American Cooking Across the USA |
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Latin America; Regions and People $15 No Synopsis Available |
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Latin America : Regions and People $67.6 No Synopsis Available |
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Comparative Latin American Politics (Large Print 16pt) $30.93 Latin America is a region of great diversity and a rich laboratory for understanding the processes of political development and their interaction with economic growth, social modernization, and cultural influences. Highlighting crucial periods of dynamic socioeconomic and political change, Comparative Latin American Politics provides a balanced, concise overview of select Latin American countries without underestimating the complexities of a region noted for its striking differences. The book focuses on the dominant dyad of Mexico and Brazil while also considering in detail Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, and Venezuela seven countries that contain fourfifths of the regions inhabitants as well as an even higher proportion of its economy. Recognizing that political institutions and cultures are built over generations, author Ronald M. Schneider divides his analysis into two parts. Part one examines the period from independence to 1930, when countries were coping with an array of postindependence problems and challenges of national consolidation. Part two concentrates on 1930 to the present day and fleshes out current political practices and structures. Each part devotes chapters to specific country coverage as well as meaningful comparative perspectives that illuminate the political evolution of the region and offer salient lessons for other developing parts of the world. Author: Schneider, Ronald M. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 516 Publication Date: 2011/02/18 Language: English Dimensions: 10.00 x 7.01 x 1.04 inches Large Print |
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HP NC8430 Laptop Keyboard Latin American 407218161 $42.92 HP NC8430 Laptop Keyboard Latin American 407218161 |
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Readings in Latin American Politics: Challenges to Democratization, 1st Edition $64.99 A unique combination of two major approaches, this reader is separated into two parts. Part I focuses on four central themes: democratization, economic development, social policy, and changing political actors. Each chapter in this follows a debate format, with complementary readings. Part II features six chapters focusing on particular countries or regions within Latin America, examining how the central themes discussed in Part I play out in each particular case. |
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Latin American Spanish $10.46 Berlitz Latin American Spanishoffers the most up-to-date, relevant content to help any traveler build a basic Portuguese vocabulary…. |
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A Companion to Latin American History $43.99 The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America. Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America Written by the top international experts in the field 28 chapters come together as a superlative single source of information for scholars and students Recognizes the breadth and diversity of Latin American history by providing systematic chronological and geographical coverage Covers both historical trends and new areas of interest |
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Get By in Latin American Spanish $9.28 Get By in Latin American Spanish is devised specifically for travellers. The 70-minute download will help you to get to grips with the basics of spoken Spanish, and introduces the most relevant language…. |
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A Companion to Latin American History $37.3 This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America in all its diversity. Comprising 28 chapters by leading world experts, the book presents a single source of information and analysis for scholars and students interested in Latin America’s past and is the ideal starting point for further study. Latin America is defined as the vast region stretching from the middle of North America through the entire tropic belt, and extending south over plains to the glaciers and fjords of the southernmost inhabited regions of the earth. In the pre-Columbian era, the area incorporated hundreds of distinct language groups; today, there are still more than 20 independent nations in the region. This Companion recognizes this variety, while providing systematic chronological and geographical coverage of the basic historical trends and new areas of scholarly interest. |
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A Companion to Latin American History $51.95 A Companion to Latin American History provides a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America in all its diversity. Comprising 28 chapters by leading world experts, it presents a single source of information and analysis for scholars and students interested in Latin America’s past and is the ideal starting point for further study. Latin America is defined as the vast region stretching from the middle of North America through the entire tropic belt, and extending south over plains to the glaciers and fjords of the southernmost inhabited regions of the earth. In the pre-Columbian era, the area incorporated hundreds of distinct language groups; today, there are still more than 20 independent nations in the region. The essays recognize this variety, while providing systematic chronological and geographical coverage of the basic historical trends and new areas of scholarly interest. |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $83.53 New – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebellio |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $7.98 New – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebellio |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $12 Used – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebelli |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $18.29 Used – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebelli |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $56.37 New – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebellio |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $1.71 Used – This is an examination of slavery that covers the Spanish, Portuguese, and French regions of Latin America. Klein brings together the latest findings on the plantation system, demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community, and Afro-American culture. He focuses also on the attempts of the African and American-born slaves to create a viable and autonomous culture, including their adaptation of European languages, religions, and even kinship systems to their own needs. |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $12.01 Used – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebelli |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $5.63 New – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebellio |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $5.47 Used – This is an examination of slavery that covers the Spanish, Portuguese, and French regions of Latin America. Klein brings together the latest findings on the plantation system, demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community, and Afro-American culture. He focuses also on the attempts of the African and American-born slaves to create a viable and autonomous culture, including their adaptation of European languages, religions, and even kinship systems to their own needs. |
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean $21.72 Used – A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and the urban experience, the book bringstogether the recent findings on demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community and Afro-American culture. The book also sheds new light on the processes of accomodation and rebelli |
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Africans In The Americas $21.9 This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa and Europe prior to 1500, the work covers chronologically the transatlantic slave trade, domestic slave trading, slave systems, the abolition movements, and the aftermath of emancipation throughout the Americas. Several chapters provide sweeping surveys of broad regions such as British North America, the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, the Andean countries and Latin America. Others deal with specific territories such as the United States, Venezuela, Cuba or Brazil.The book begins with a chapter on African antiquity and early contacts with Europe. It continues with a comparative history of the slave trade and emancipation. Other topics include the role of free blacks throughout the Americas, women and gender relations, and African-American relations with Europeans and Native American populations. Finally, the book concludes with chapters on modern race and economic relations in the Americas and a chapter on the continuing ties between African Americans and Africa.”On the whole Africans in the Americas accomplishes its purpose well, there is a great deal of fascinating information here. A very useful text.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, 633-65 (1995)Michael L. Conniff earned degrees at UC-Berkeley and Stanford (Ph.D. 1976) and has published a number of books on modern Latin American history, most recently A History of Modern Latin America (with Lawrence Clayton) and Populism in Latin America.Thomas J. Davis, Ph.D., J.D., teaches history and law at Arizona State University in Tempe, focusing on race and the law, civil rights, and U.S. constitutional and legal history. His most recent publications include “Race, Identity, and the Law: Underlying Questions in |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $52.31 New – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secula |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $52.92 Used – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secul |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $37.09 Used – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secul |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $37.21 Used – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secul |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $52.92 Used – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secul |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $52.31 Used – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secul |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $37.47 Used – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secul |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $60 New – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secula |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $37.09 New – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secula |
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora $43.74 New – “Exploring the connections between colonial Latin American historiography and the scholarship on the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires, Africans to Spanish America points to the continuities as well as disjunctures between the two fields of study. While a majority of the research on the colonial diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes open up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secula |
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Alternatives to Imprisonment in Comparative Perspective $1.99 This unique volume, published in cooperation with the United Nations, provides a wide overview of non-custodial sanctions in all major regions of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Latin American and the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia. The contributors analyze the potential and limits of non-custodial sanctions in the context of sociolegal, political, and cultural diversity. Sanctions examined include personal reparation, probation, home detention, electronic monitoring, and personal recognizance. |
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Alternatives to Imprisonment in Comparative Perspective (Cloth Edition) $11.17 New – This unique volume, published in cooperation with the United Nations, provides a wide overview of non-custodial sanctions in all major regions of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Latin American and the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia. The contributors analyze the potential and limits of non-custodial sanctions in the context of sociolegal, political, and cultural diversity. Sanctions examined include personal reparation, probation, home detention, electro |
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Alternatives to Imprisonment in Comparative Perspective (Cloth Edition) $11.4 New – This unique volume, published in cooperation with the United Nations, provides a wide overview of non-custodial sanctions in all major regions of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Latin American and the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia. The contributors analyze the potential and limits of non-custodial sanctions in the context of sociolegal, political, and cultural diversity. Sanctions examined include personal reparation, probation, home detention, electro |
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Alternatives to Imprisonment in Comparative Perspective (Cloth Edition) $0.99 Used – This unique volume, published in cooperation with the United Nations, provides a wide overview of non-custodial sanctions in all major regions of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Latin American and the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia. The contributors analyze the potential and limits of non-custodial sanctions in the context of sociolegal, political, and cultural diversity. Sanctions examined include personal reparation, probation, home detention, electr |
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Alternatives to Imprisonment in Comparative Perspective (Cloth Edition) $5.05 Used – This unique volume, published in cooperation with the United Nations, provides a wide overview of non-custodial sanctions in all major regions of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Latin American and the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia. The contributors analyze the potential and limits of non-custodial sanctions in the context of sociolegal, political, and cultural diversity. Sanctions examined include personal reparation, probation, home detention, electr |
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American Bamboos $23.88 Drawing on two decades of fieldwork in the United States and fifteen Latin American countries, the authors bring together current knowledge of the structure, ecology, human uses, conservation value, evolution, and diversity of the forty-one genera of American woody and herbaceous bamboos. They also discuss three genera of basal grasses that resemble bamboos. They describe the importance of bamboos to South American landscapes and cultures, explaining how jungles of Guadua and thickets of Chusquea host communities of small animals and how human societies use bamboo for housing, furniture, basketry, food, soil conservation, and musical instruments. Exploring the possibilities of cultivated bamboo, the authors also note its value in some regions as a timber resource.Generously illustrated with color photographs and detailed line drawings, the book provides genus-by-genus descriptions of bamboos, as well as habitat data, range maps, lists of recognized species, and complete references. It also includes the most recent molecular and systematic evidence for bamboo evolution and phylogeny. The first ever to focus on the bamboos of the Americas, this volume is an essential resource for botanists, taxonomists, horticulturists, and gardeners. |
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American Constitutionalism Abroad: Selected Essays in Comparative Constitutional History $102.15 American constitutionalism remains this country’s greatest contribution to human freedom. The ideas and ideals expressed in the U.S. Constitution and related documents, and the institutions developed in them have influenced different people in different lands over the past two hundred years. In American Constitutionalism Abroad, six distinguished historians, political scientists, and international law experts, discuss American constitutionalism in various regions of the world at different times, and within different contexts. In terms of time and space, the influence of American constitutionalism is demonstrated in Europe between 1776 and 1848; Latin America during the nineteenth century; Asia in the twentieth century; and Germany in 1949 and France in 1958. One essay shows how the legacy of American constitutionalism was expressed in parallel movements in the nineteenth century to create a peaceful, liberal world order based on a proposed international legal code. By tracing the influence of the documents, procedures, and institutions that came into being within the United States during the founding period from 1776 to 1791, and by analyzing how they were received and perceived by constitutionmakers in other countries, it is possible to follow the spread of American constitutionalism through various parts of the world over time. By focusing on the influence of American constitutionalism abroad, this book breaks exciting new ground in the study of the Constitution. This work will appeal not only to American and legal historians, but to political scientists as well. |