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  • - Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution
    av Eduardo Saenz Rovner
    422,-

    Offering a comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, this book challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution.

  • - Antonio Pereira Reboucas and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship
    av Keila Grinberg
    530,-

    Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.

  • - A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
     
    420,-

    Presents salsa as a pan-Caribbean phenomenon, emerging in the migrations and interactions, the celebrations and conflicts that marked the region. This book explains that it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry.

  • - A Novel of Mexico City
    av Federico Gamboa
    484,-

    This evocative novel - justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city's customs, social interactions, and political activities - assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired several film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book.

  • av Licia do Prado Valladares
    517,-

    For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established - and even attractive and exotic - representation of poverty.

  • - A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
    av Frances R. Aparicio, Jackie White & Cesar Miguel Rondon
    816,-

    Until now, the single comprehensive history of Salsa - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production - was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.

  • - A Decolonial History
    av Jean Casimir
    608,-

    In this sweeping history, Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the US occupation in 1915.

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