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The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

By: Alejandro Colas,Richard Saull

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The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

By: Alejandro Colas,Richard Saull

This new study shows how the American-led ‘war on terror’ has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system since the end of the Cold War. A new ‘imperial moment’ is now discernible in US foreign policy in the wake of the neo-conservative rise to power in the USA, marked by the development of a fresh strategic doctrine based on the legitimacy of preventative military strikes on hostile forces across any part of the globe. Key features of this new volume include: * an alternative, critical take on contemporary US foreign policy * a timely, accessible overview of critical thinking on US foreign policy, imperialism and war on terror * the full spectrum of critical view sin a single volume * many of these essays are now ‘contemporary classics’ The essays collected in this volume analyse the historical, socio-economic and political dimensions of the current international conjuncture, and assess the degree to which the war on terror has transformed the nature and projection of US global power. Drawing on a range of critical social theories, this collection seeks to ground historically the analysis of global developments since the inception of the new Bush Presidency and weigh up the political consequences of this imperial turn. This book will be of great interest for all students of US foreign policy, contemporary international affairs, international relations and politics.

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Food, Politics, and Society

Social Theory and the Modern Food System

By: Alejandro Colas

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Food, Politics, and Society

Social Theory and the Modern Food System

By: Alejandro Colas

Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines.

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Capitalism and the Sea

The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World

By: Liam Campling,Alejandro Colas

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Capitalism and the Sea

The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World

By: Liam Campling,Alejandro Colas

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of our carbon civilization - warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. In this bold and radical new book, Campling and Colás analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. In successive chapters dealing with the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea, the authors argue that the earth's geographical separation into land and sea has significant consequences for capitalist development. The distinctive features of this mode of production continuously seek to transcend the land-sea binary in an incessant quest for profit, engendering new alignments of sovereignty, exploitation and appropriation in the capture and coding of maritime spaces and resources.

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1784785261

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The Sweet Penance of Music

Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile

By: Alejandro Vera

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The Sweet Penance of Music

Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile

By: Alejandro Vera

This book provides a fresh, comprehensive view of the musical life and its cultural context in Santiago, Chile, from its foundation in 1541 to the end of the colonial period, roughly in 1810. Combining the study of archival documents, secondary sources and music scores, it deals with different aspects of musical life in the cathedral (chap. 1), convents and monasteries (chap. 2), private houses (chap. 3) and public spaces (chap. 4), considering, as well, the life and function of musicians as crucial agents in the music field. Despite its focus on a particular city of Latin America, it raises this issue from a broad perspective that explores its links with other urban centers (especially Lima), within the globalizing framework of the colonial system. The idea of music as a "sweet penance," belonging to a nun harpist in a convent of Santiago at the end of the eighteenth century, gives rise to consider duality as an essential trait of the period and its music"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190940212

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Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos: Volumen 6

By: Rabindranath Tagore,Alexander Puchkin,Katherine Mansfield,Jack London,Alejandro Dumas,Virginia Woolf,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Rudyard Kipling,José Enrique Rodó,Felisberto Hernández

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Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos: Volumen 6

By: Rabindranath Tagore,Alexander Puchkin,Katherine Mansfield,Jack London,Alejandro Dumas,Virginia Woolf,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Rudyard Kipling,José Enrique Rodó,Felisberto Hernández

Este libro contiene 70 cuentos de 10 autores clásicos, premiados y notables. Los cuentos fueron cuidadosamente seleccionados por el crítico August Nemo, en una colección que encantará a los amantes de la literatura. Para lo mejor de la literatura mundial, asegúrese de consultar los otros libros de Tacet Books. Este libro contiene: Rabindranath Tagore: - El héroe. - La patria del proscrito. - Nubes y olas. - El cortejo invisible. - El fin. - La ladrona del sueño. - BendiciónAlexander Puchkin: - La Dama de Espadas. - El pescador y el pez dorado. - El jefe de posta. - El fabricante de ataúdes. - El disparo memorable. - La tempestad de nieve. - La zarevna muerta y los siete guerreros.Katherine Mansfield: - Las hijas del difunto coronel. - La mosca. - Felicidad. - Fiesta en el jardín. - Vida de Ma Parker. - Sopla el viento. - La señorita BrillJack London: - El silencio blanco. - Encender una hoguera. - Odisea en el norte. - El diente de ballena. - Amor a la vida. - Un buen bistec. - El pagano.Alejandro Dumas: - Deseo y posesión. - La Dama Negra. - Historia de un muerto contada por él mismo. - Las tumbas de Saint Denis. - Los caballeros templarios. - Un alma por nacer. - Lo que es ignorar la lengua del país.Virginia Woolf: - El vestido nuevo - Un resumen - El cuarteto de cuerdas - El foco - La casa encantada - La duquesa y el joyero - Lunes o martesF. Scott Fitzgerald: - Berenice se corta el pelo - Diamante Dick y el primer derecho de la mujer - El diamante tan grande como el Ritz - La tarde de un escritor - Último beso - Uno de mis más viejos amigos - Volver a BabiloniaRudyard Kipling: - El Hombre que pudo reinar - El gato que caminaba solo - El jardineiro - El judío errante - Georgie Porgie - La Casa de los Deseos - Rikki tikki taviJosé Enrique Rodó: - Cuento simbólico - El monje Teótimo - Hylas - Peer Gynt - Ariel - Mi retablo de Navidad - La inscripción del Faro de AlejandríaFelisberto Hernández: - Cartas a los muertos. - El acomodador. - La envenenada. - Muebles "El canario". - Nadie encendía las lámparas. - Elsa. - El corazón verde.

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8577776239

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Freedom Is a Feast

By: Alejandro Puyana

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Freedom Is a Feast

By: Alejandro Puyana

In the tradition of Isabel Allende’s career-launching debut, The House of the Spirits, a multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life: “a tour de force” from “the new master” (Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene). In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezuela. There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their romance is upended by a decision with consequences that will echo down through the generations. Almost forty years later, in a poor barrio of Caracas, María, a single mother, ekes out a precarious existence as a housekeeper, pouring her love into Eloy, her young son. Her devotion will not be enough, however, to keep them from disaster. On the eve of the attempted coup against President Chávez, Eloy is wounded by a stray bullet, fracturing her world. Amid the chaos at the hospital, María encounters Stanislavo, now a newspaper editor. Even as the country itself is convulsed by waves of unrest, this twist of fate forces a belated reckoning for Stanislavo, who may yet earn a chance to atone for old missteps before it’s too late. With its epic scope, gripping narrative, and unflinching intimacy, Freedom Is a Feast announces a major new talent. Alejandro Puyana has delivered a wise and moving debut about sticking to one’s beliefs at the expense of pain and chaos, about the way others can suffer for our misdeeds even when we have the best of intentions, and about the possibility for redemption when love persists across time.

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Little, Brown

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0316571806

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9780316571807

Empire

By: Alejandro Colás

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Empire

By: Alejandro Colás

The notion of empire has in recent years taken on a renewed importance in world politics. US foreign policy has in particular been associated with this concept by both critics and supporters of American global power. But what exactly is an empire? What distinguishes different forms of empire? Is this category still useful in a post-colonial world? These and other related questions are addressed in this historically informed conceptual introduction to the idea of empire. Alejandro Colás draws on interdisciplinary debates surrounding this disputed notion and offers a survey of different imperial experiences across time and place. Successive chapters consider the imperial organization of political space, the role of markets in sustaining imperial rule and the contradictory expressions of imperial culture. Colás argues that in each of these arenas we can establish differences among empires but also contrast imperial polities to other forms of political rule. In addition he suggests that the experiences and legacies of empire are key to an understanding of the world today, including forms of global governance and experiments in nation-building. Using wide-ranging examples, the book discusses some of the major theories of empire and imperialism in an accessible and engaging way. Above all, the text aims to bring the concept of empire alive to those concerned with contemporary world politics and society. It will be of great interest to those studying and teaching world history, international relations, comparative politics or global sociology.

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Polity

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0745632513

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Multiple Choice

By: Alejandro Zambra

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Multiple Choice

By: Alejandro Zambra

A "brilliant, innovative, beautiful" (The Guardian) book from the acclaimed author of Chilean Poet "Dazzling . . . a work of parody, but also of poetry." —The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE GUARDIAN, AND THE IRISH TIMES “Latin America’s new literary star” (The New Yorker), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional fiction. Now, at the height of his powers, Zambra returns with his most audaciously brilliant book yet. Written in the form of a standardized test, Multiple Choice invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exercises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions that are thought-provoking, usually unanswerable, and often absurd. It offers a new kind of reading experience, one in which the reader participates directly in the creation of meaning, and the nature of storytelling itself is called into question. At once funny, poignant, and political, Multiple Choice is about love and family, authoritarianism and its legacies, and the conviction that, rather than learning to think for ourselves, we are trained to obey and repeat. Serious in its literary ambition and playful in its execution, it confirms Alejandro Zambra as one of the most important writers working in any language. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE MILLIONS, VOX, LIT HUB, THE BBC, THE GUARDIAN AND PUREWOW

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0143109197

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Nacido Patria o Muerte

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

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Nacido Patria o Muerte

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

Nacido Patria o Muerte es un libro autobiogràfico que narra la experiencia vivida por un joven nacido bajo la llamada 'Revolución Cubana' liderada por Fidel Castro desde 1959 y originalmente dirigido a esos cubanos de la isla caribeña. So temor de que este sufrimiento quede borrado tal y como fue de la historia que le toco vivir en la Cuba de esos dias bajo la influencia del Sistema totalitario llevado por la mano de la hoz y el martillo del Kremlin moscovita, el autor relata su experiencia y conversiòn a la fe cristiana, no sin antes describir los procedimientos que el Campo Socialista de entonces usaba para adoctrinar a sus juventudes en las concepciones marxistas-leninistas del Imperio Comunista y sus ambiciones territoriales, encabezados por la Union de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas. El libro incluye narrativa de su infancia en Ciudad Habana durante los anos 60s y 70s, también de los años en que el autor estudio en el Instituto Militar de las Fuerzas Aéreas Soviéticas de Krasnodar A. Serov; en Cuba como piloto de la aviación militar supersónica, y mas tarde confrontando a la Gestapo cubana. Vistenos en: http: //www.alejandroslibros.com

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1463659679

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El Rey Victorino.

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

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El Rey Victorino.

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

El REY VICTORINO es una historia que nos abre una definida pero infinita ventana al tiempo del Reino prometido por el Hijo de Dios. Aquí no hay prolepsis que destruya ni luchas entre palabras agudas, esdrújulas, graves o regulares, sino un prolijo enlace desde ese futuro en que se nos predijo desde antaño.En ella el lector reirá por las simpáticas ocurrencias del rey y los que lo rodean junto a las aventuras que le suceden no solo en el 'Reino del Tocororo', donde él gobierna a su pueblo, pero también en el viaje que emprende durante los últimos siete años del Gran Reino Milenario; es decir, desde el año 992 al 999 del GRM, comenzando con la travesía que en carrozas engalanadas cruza primeramente por la Región Atlántica: ahora tierra seca convertida en un Edén de proporciones inimaginables.En el transcurso de la historia los personajes y caracteres alrededor del rey Victorino interactúan en diálogos y situaciones atrapadas dentro del viaje, mientras el rey rememora todos los pasajes bíblicos que en el 'viejo siglo' nos anunciaban la promesa del Reino Milenario; es por tanto un libro que cita la Palabra de Dios con frecuencia, aunque por tratarse de varias esta vez a pie de página se nos agregan las citas donde pueden ser encontradas; y asegurándonos que la justicia eterna no es promesa hueca, sino aumentativa locomotora que se acerca a la velocidad que Dios el Creador ha predestinado en la dispensación del tiempo y las épocas. CONTENIDO: -Apéndice del libro. -Prólogo por el escribano Euqor. -Prefación por el príncipe Genghis. -Preámbulo por el rey Salomón. -Capítulo Alef: El rey Victorino y la reina Angelike. -Capítulo Beth: El Reino del Tocororo. -Capítulo Gimmel: El viaje de los siete años. •Partida de Tainotixtán y bosquejo del viaje. •El Reino de la Flor Atlántica y la reina Blancanieves. •El Reino de Stratford y el palacio de Romeo y Julieta. •El Reino de Salamanca y el castillo de Don Quijote y Sancho Panza. -Capítulo Dalet: De vuelta en Jerusalém atravesando los Pilares del Alfa y la Omega. -Acerca del autor. TAGS: Reino Milenario, Inglaterra, España, Israel, Salomón, David, Jerusalem, Shiloh, Reino de Salamanca, Don Quijote, Sancho Panza, Salamanca, Reino de Stratford, William Shakespeare, Romeo y Julieta, Atlántico, Reino de la flor Atlántica, Mediterráneo, Los pilares del Alfa y la Omega, Tocororo, Genghis, Blancanieves, Palabra de Dios, Profetas, Juan Bautista, Pablo, Rey Cristo, rey Victorino, Apóstoles, Gog, Magog, Eternos, Mortales, Literatura, Poesía, Historia, Mesías, Juicio Final, Alef, Beth, Gimmel, Dalet, Venida del Dios Padre.

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Food, Politics, and Society

Social Theory and the Modern Food System

By: Alejandro Colas

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Social Theory and the Modern Food System

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Capitalism and the Sea

The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World

By: Liam Campling,Alejandro Colás

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Capitalism and the Sea

The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World

By: Liam Campling,Alejandro Colás

Winner of the IPEG 2022 Book Prize The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of our carbon civilization - warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. In this bold and radical new book, Campling and Cols analyse these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. In successive chapters dealing with the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea, the authors argue that the earth's geographical separation into land and sea has significant consequences for capitalist development. The distinctive features of this mode of production continuously seek to transcend the land-sea binary in an incessant quest for profit, engendering new alignments of sovereignty, exploitation and appropriation in the capture and coding of maritime spaces and resources.

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The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

By: Alejandro Colas,Richard Saull

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The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

Food, Politics, and Society

Food, Politics, and Society

Capitalism and the Sea

Capitalism and the Sea

The Sweet Penance of Music

The Sweet Penance of Music

Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos: Volumen 6

Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos: Volumen 6

Freedom Is a Feast

Freedom Is a Feast

Empire

Empire

Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice

Nacido Patria o Muerte

Nacido Patria o Muerte

El Rey Victorino.

El Rey Victorino.

Food, Politics, and Society

Food, Politics, and Society

Capitalism and the Sea

Capitalism and the Sea

The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

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