The Land And People Of Venezuela

Author : Geoffrey Fox
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060224776
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land and People of Venezuela written by Geoffrey Fox and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1991 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history, geography, people, culture, government, and economy of Venezuela.

Author : Raymond A. Wohlrabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land and People of Venezuela written by Raymond A. Wohlrabe and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Fox
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land and People of Venezuela written by Geoffrey Fox and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history, geography, people, culture, government, and economy of Venezuela.

Author : Raymond A. Wohlrabe
Publisher : J.P. Lippincott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land and People of Venezuela written by Raymond A. Wohlrabe and published by J.P. Lippincott. This book was released on 1959 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the history, geography, and living conditions in this oil-rich nation.

Author : David Smilde
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350416
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy written by David Smilde and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond Hugo Chávez and the national government, contributors examine forms of democracy involving ordinary Venezuelans: in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and other forums.

Author : Gregory Wilpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Venezuela by Taking Power written by Gregory Wilpert and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the self-serving logic behind much middle-class opposition to Venezuela's elected leader, and explains the real reason for their alarm. This work argues that the Chavez government has instituted one of the progressive constitutions, but warns that they have yet to overcome the dangerous spectres of the country's past.

Author : Lisa Blackmore
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982366
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Modernity written by Lisa Blackmore and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.

Author : Pei-Lin Yu
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826318077
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry Lightning written by Pei-Lin Yu and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal view not only of a people whose life as savannah foragers is unique and fast-disappearing, but of the thoughts and actions of a young woman researcher during the hardest, and most exciting time in her life.

Author : Javier Corrales
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815705026
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragon in the Tropics written by Javier Corrales and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime—an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America. Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Chávez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Chávez ran for president. It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions—the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments—but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Chávez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Chávez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.

Author : Javier Corrales
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815738080
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autocracy Rising written by Javier Corrales and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Nicolás Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. In his new book, Autocracy Rising, veteran scholar of Latin American politics Javier Corrales explores how and why this happened. Corrales focuses on two themes: party systems and institutional capacity. He argues that Venezuela’s democratic backsliding advanced when the ruling party obtained far too much electoral clout while the opposition fragmented. The state then took control of formerly independent agencies of the state. This allowed the ruling party to use and abuse of the law to favor the president—which in turn generated a permanent economic crisis. After succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013, Nicolás Maduro confronted, unexpectedly, another change in the party system: a rising opposition. This triggered deeper autocratization. To survive, the state was compelled to modernize autocratic practices and seek alliances with sinister partners. In short, Maduro concentrated power, paradoxically, by sharing power. Autocracy Rising compares what occurred in Venezuela to twenty other cases throughout Latin America where presidents were forced out of office. Corrales illuminates the depressing cycle in which semi-authoritarian regimes become increasingly autocratic in response to crisis, only to cause new crises that lead to even greater authoritarianism.