Utopia Unarmed

Author : Jorge G. Castañeda
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307822990
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopia Unarmed written by Jorge G. Castañeda and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they merely temporary lulls in an ongoing revolution that may yet transform our hemisphere? This perceptive and richly eventful study by one of Mexico's most distinguished political scientists tells the story behind the failed movements of the past thirty years while suggesting that the left has a continuing relevance in a continent that suffers from destitution and social inequality. Combining insider's accounts of intrigue and armed struggle with a clear-sighted analysis of the mechanisms of day-to-day power, Utopia Unarmed is an indispensable work of scholarship, reportage, and political prognosis.

Author : Edward J Mccaughan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042996627X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Revolution written by Edward J Mccaughan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth interviews with seventy-four intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big-and enduring-questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty. Offering a unique world-systems perspective on the sociology of intellectuals and

Author : Jorge G. Castañeda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135910235
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leftovers written by Jorge G. Castañeda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by specialists on the region, this book provides a comprehensive account of the left across Latin America.

Author : Lisa Lowe
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822320463
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital written by Lisa Lowe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVComing from a broad cross-section of academic disciplines and theoretical positions, this collection of essays questions and reworks Marxist critiques of capitalism that center on the West and which posit a uniform model of development. More specifically/div

Author : José Antonio Aguilar Rivera
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739101735
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of Ulysses written by José Antonio Aguilar Rivera and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the most promising young scholars on the Mexican intellectual scene, The Shadow of Ulysses attempts to reconnect the American and Mexican intellectual experiences by exploring historical as well as contemporary issues in both countries. The book's first chapters discuss the relationship between American and Mexican intellectuals in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution and offer a sociological comparison of the 1960s intellectual generations in the United States and Mexico. Later chapters provide a critical assessment of two prominent Mexican public intellectuals well known to the American reader: Carlos Fuentes and Jorge Castaneda. The Shadow of Ulysses, the Mexican edition of which was awarded the Alfonso Reyes National Prize, offers a rare glimpse into the development of contemporary Mexican thought and reveals the under-recognized intellectual ties that existed between our two countries in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Mateo Jarquín
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sandinista Revolution written by Mateo Jarquín and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers. Jarquin offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the post–Cold War order.

Author : Fred Halliday
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324645
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution and World Politics written by Fred Halliday and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassesses the role of revolution as a force that has shaped the development of world politics.

Author : Howard P. Segal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118234316
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopias written by Howard P. Segal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief history connects the past and present of utopianthought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up topresent day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about thesocieties who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over thecenturies Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions ofutopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken – propheciesand oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physicalcommunities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspacevisions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions ofreform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and ModernizationTheory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recentyears

Author : Peggy Levitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Needs No Passport written by Peggy Levitt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative examination of how new realities of religion and migration are subtly challenging the very definition of what it means to be an American. Sociology professor Levitt argues that immigrants no longer trade one membership card for another, but stay close to their home countries, indelibly altering American religion and values with experiences and beliefs imported from Asia, Latin America and Africa. The book is a pointed response to Samuel Huntington's famous clash of civilisations thesis and looks at global religions' organisation for the first time.

Author : K. Beauchesne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230339611
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Utopian Impulse in Latin America written by K. Beauchesne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.