Books

A New Explanation for the Foundations of the Modern Venezuelan State

This book examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Orlando Bentancor ties the colonizers’ attempts to justify the abuses wrought on the environment and the indigenous population to their larger ideology concerning mining, science, and the empire’s rightful place in the global sphere. To Bentancor, their presuppositions were a major turning point for colonial expansion and paved the way to global mercantilism.

Confronts the Insufficiencies of Canonical Architectural Texts

Captures the Complexity of Foucault’s Political Engagements and Breaks with the Orthodox View That He Was Anti-Marxist

A History of the Women’s Antifascism Movement in Argentina That Contains Lessons for Opposing Fascism Today

The First English-Language Book on the History of Public Health in Ecuador during the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes

Highlights the Intersections between Media, Whiteness, and Middle-Class Identity That Feed Brazil’s Ultraconservative Movement

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

How Competing Interests Mobilize and Shape Labor Laws and Reform

Follows the Rise and Fall of Evo Morales and the Political and Economic Transformations of Bolivia

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice

An Innovative Approach to Studying the Relationship between Politics, Crime, and Violence

A Timely Study of Brazil’s First Centenary of Independence and Exploration of Brazilian Nationhood and Citizenship

Looking back through the prism of the severe economic crisis for filmmaking in the 1980s, this book trace the development of this industry in Brazil, focusing specifically on its relationship to the state.