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The Expulsion of Mexico’s Spaniards, 1821-1836

…the effect of crippling a once flourishing economy, with the flight of significant capital. | Harold Sims| Pitt Latin American Series| History / General History / Latin America / Mexico…

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Democratic Brazil

…that Brazilian democracy has consolidated? What actors, institutions, and processes have emerged as most salient over the past 15 years? Although Brazil is Latin America‘s largest country, the world’s third…

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Noose and Hook

|9780822960591|“I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid…

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Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina

|9780822948100|A Critique of Market and State Utopias|In the two largest countries in South America, successive waves of structural reforms adopted in the name of development invariably have ended in disappointment….

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Ringer

…in Ringer are ecopoetical, functioning in a “junk” or “sad” pastoral mode, inhabiting abandoned, forgotten, and sometimes impoverished landscapes of rural America.| Rebecca Lehmann| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / General…

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