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Migration, Reproduction and Society

Economic and Demographic Dilemmas in Global Capitalism

By: Alejandro I. Canales

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Migration, Reproduction and Society

Economic and Demographic Dilemmas in Global Capitalism

By: Alejandro I. Canales

In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the dilemmas presented by migration in the transformation of contemporary society. Aging and changing demographics in advanced societies make economic and social reproduction dependent upon the contributions made by immigration. However, these same demographic processes are conducive to ethnic transformations. The political dilemma facing advanced societies is that immigration is required to ensure their reproduction, but this entails becoming multicultural societies where the political hegemony of ethnic and demographic majorities becomes radically subverted. This paves the way to a pervasive political conflict already evident in the current immigration crisis in Europe just as in the revival of racism and xenophobia in the United States. En Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales propone un modelo teórico para el entendimiento del dilema político y social concerniente al papel de las migraciones en la transformación de la sociedad contemporánea. El envejecimiento y decline demográfico en las sociedades avanzadas hacen que la dinámica económica y la reproducción social de la población dependan directamente de los aportes que hace la inmigración. Sin embargo, estos mismos procesos demográficos propician una transformación étnica de sus actuales equilibrios sociales y demográficos. El dilema político que enfrentan las sociedades avanzadas es que para asegurar su reproducción debe necesariamente abrirse a la inmigración, pero ello conlleva la posibilidad de constituirse en sociedades multiculturales en donde la hegemonía política de las actuales mayorías étnicas y demográficas se trastocaría radicalmente. Es la base de un conflicto político cuyos indicios ya se advierten en la actual crisis migratoria en Europa, así como en el renacer del racismo y xenofobia en los Estados Unidos.

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900440922X

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Profetas Mayores del Antiguo Testamento

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

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Profetas Mayores del Antiguo Testamento

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

En la presente obra te ofrecemos los capítulos dedicados a los Profetas Mayores del Antiguo Testamento: fueron ellos quienes dedicaron gran parte de sus vidas experimentando sufrimientos y penurias mientras inspirados por el Señor nos dejaban abundantes escritos sobre qué nos depararía el futuro y cómo se develaría el plan de Dios dentro de la historia humana. Como libro de estudio se diferencia de otros en que no es simplemente para saciar la curiosidad, sino adentrarnos en el futuro que apremia anunciándonos y explicando las profecías bíblicas al detalle. Es más que nada lo que el Espíritu Santo de Dios ha revelado, y fruto del estudio esforzado de todas las profecías bíblicas; es por tanto un libro dirigido a aquellos interesados en escudriñar--como se nos dice en San Juan 5:39--las profecías bíblicas, incluidas dentro del Plan de Dios, dedicándole tiempo, paciencia y mucha oración.

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A Nation for All

Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-century Cuba

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

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A Nation for All

Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-century Cuba

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

Argues that racism and antiracism continue to coexist in Cuban nationalism and society despite its fight for freedom, and describes the limitations Afro-Cubans face in job access, education, and political representation.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807849227

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Coalitions of the Willing and International Law

The Interplay between Formality and Informality

By: Alejandro Rodiles

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Coalitions of the Willing and International Law

The Interplay between Formality and Informality

By: Alejandro Rodiles

An analysis of the role of the interplay between formality and informality in shaping the current state of international law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108493653

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The Global Edge

Miami in the Twenty-First Century

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

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The Global Edge

Miami in the Twenty-First Century

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful City on the Edge, The Global Edge examines Miami in the context of globalization and scrutinizes its newfound place as a major international city. Written by two well-known scholars in the field, the book examines Miami’s rise as a finance and banking center and the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic. The Global Edge serves as a case study of Miami’s present cultural, economic, and political transformation, and describes how its future course can provide key lessons for other metropolitan areas throughout the world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520969618

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The Human Factor

The Demography of the Roman Province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis

By: Alejandro Sinner,C?sar Carreras,Pieter Houten

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The Human Factor

The Demography of the Roman Province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis

By: Alejandro Sinner,C?sar Carreras,Pieter Houten

The Human Factor establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach, compiling archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. This comprehensive and detailed study of a single province is necessary to generate accurate demographic estimates and to compare it with datasets from other regions and historical periods. By examining the province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis in depth, the authors provide a detailed understanding of demographic patterns, urbanism, and urbanization rates over time, and link them with the social, cultural, and economic factors that affected the Iberian Peninsula and the Western Mediterranean from the fourth century BC until the end of the Roman period. For instance, population size was a significant indicator of economic growth and performance, and the distribution of people between urban and rural areas played a vital role in the negotiation of collective identities. Additionally, human mobility promoted cultural change and mediated information and technological flows. This is the first comprehensive , state-of-the-art demographic analysis of the Iberian Peninsula from the Iron Age down to the end of the Roman period, and the authors' integration and interpretation of data provide cutting-edge research and methodology, and fill a gap in the scholarly literature, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of the ancient Mediterranean.

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Oxford University Press

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0192664751

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Sugar and Railroads

A Cuban History, 1837-1959

By: Oscar Zanetti,Alejandro Garcia

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Sugar and Railroads

A Cuban History, 1837-1959

By: Oscar Zanetti,Alejandro Garcia

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azucar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through the 1959 Revolution. More broadly, the book uses the development of the Cuban rail transport system to provide a fascinating perspective on Cuban history, particularly the story of its predominant agro-industry, sugar. While railroads facilitated the sugar industry's rapid growth after 1837, the authors argue, sugar interests determined where railroads would be built and who would benefit from them. Zanetti and Garcia explore the implications of this symbiotic relationship for the technological development of the railroads, the economic evolution of Cuba, and the lives of the railroad workers. As this work shows, the economic benefits that accompanied the rise of railroads in Europe and the United States were not repeated in Cuba. Sugar and Railroads provides a poignant demonstration of the fact that technological progress alone is far from sufficient for development.

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0807866431

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Western Dominance in International Relations?

The Internationalisation of IR in Brazil and India

By: Audrey Alejandro

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Western Dominance in International Relations?

The Internationalisation of IR in Brazil and India

By: Audrey Alejandro

Since the 1970s, a 'critical' movement has been developing in the humanities and social sciences denouncing the existence of 'Western dominance' over the worldwide production and circulation of knowledge. However, thirty years after the emergence of this promising agenda in International Relations (IR), this discipline has not experienced a major shift. This volume offers a counter-intuitive and original contribution to the understanding of the global circulation of knowledge. In contrast to the literature, it argues that the internationalisation of social sciences in the designated 'Global South' is not conditioned by the existence of a presumably 'Western dominance'. Indeed, although discriminative practices such as Eurocentrism and gate-keeping exist, their existence does not lead to a unipolar structuration of IR internationalisation around ‘the West’. Based on these empirical results, this book reflexively questions the role of critique in the (re)production of the social and political order. Paradoxically, the anti-Eurocentric critical discourses reproduce the very Eurocentrism they criticise. This book offers methodological support to address this paradox by demonstrating how one can use discourse analysis and reflexivity to produce innovative results and decentre oneself from the vision of the world one has been socialised into. This work offers an insightful contribution to International Relations, Political Theory, Sociology and Qualitative Methodology. It will be useful to all students and scholars interested in critical theories, international political sociology, social sciences in Brazil and India, knowledge and discourse, Eurocentrism, as well as the future of reflexivity.

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1351692046

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Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era

The Ethics of Never Again

By: Alejandro Baer,Natan Sznaider

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Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era

The Ethics of Never Again

By: Alejandro Baer,Natan Sznaider

To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be remembered? In this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of their respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to terms with and overcoming divisive pasts? Taking Argentina, Spain and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media, scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory, museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future. Baer and Sznaider follow these attempts to manoeuvre between the duties of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting. This, the authors argue, is the "ethics of Never Again.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317033760

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Peru

Staying the Course of Economic Success

By: Alejandro M. Werner,Alejandro Santos

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Peru

Staying the Course of Economic Success

By: Alejandro M. Werner,Alejandro Santos

Peru stands out among Latin American countries as an example of successful economic reforms over the past decade. This comprehensive look at Peru's economy traces that country's journey from a debt crisis in the 1980s to having buffers in place that allowed it to emerge unscathed from the global financial crisis. The book examines the steps Peru undertook to achieve these results and extracts lessons to be learned. Chapters are written by IMF staff and Peruvian economists.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513598538

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Apocalipsis de San Juan. Interpretación y explicación del libro.

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

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Apocalipsis de San Juan. Interpretación y explicación del libro.

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

El Apocalipsis o Revelacin de San Juan el telogo es un libro que se divide en siete partes, las cuales se explican detallan aqu partiendo de la informacin revelada. Esta revelacin le fue hecha al apstol San Juan en los ltimos aos de su vida mientras se encontraba desterrado en la isla de Patmos (1:9) por orden del emperador romano Domiciano (81-96 d.C), y quien tratando impunemente de silenciar al cristianismo--siempre Roma--hizo desterrar al anciano apstol, por aquel entonces nico sobreviviente de los apstoles del Seor Yesha de Nazaret--Jesucristo. Desde esa rocosa isla este hombre de Dios recibi la revelacin de lo que sera la historia del cristianismo desde la partida de Jess (12:5), hasta su regreso (1:7-8)...an esperado, y ya no lejano...CONTENIDO:-Testimonio.-Introduccin.-Primera Parte.-Segunda Parte.-Tercera Parte.-Cuarta Parte.-Quinta Parte.-Sexta Parte.-Sptima Parte.-El Tiempo perdido.-Grficos.-Acerca del autor.

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Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State

The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

By: Alejandro Quintana

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Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State

The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

By: Alejandro Quintana

Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State: The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico is a political biography of General Maximino Avila Camacho (1891D1945), one of the most powerful regional politicians in Mexico from 1935 to 1945. He was a member of an officially sponsored party, known today as the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which claimed to represent the goals of the Mexican Revolution (1910D1921) and which managed to win most federal and regional elections from 1929 until its first presidential defeat in 2000. Maximino (as he is commonly known) became a powerful politician at the time when the official party effectively transformed the Mexican political system from one based on the personal power of regional strongmen and political bosses relying on clientelistic networks (popularly known as 'caudillos' and 'caciques') to a modern one based on a centralized civilian administration supported by institutions. The story of Maximino, the powerful cacique of the state of Puebla, demonstrates that the emergence of the one-party-dominated Mexican state did not destroy caudillos and caciques but simply controlled them. Specifically, it shows how the official party incorporated these leaders and their authoritarian practices into the state's political machinery. The result was 71 years of one-party political domination based on a political culture that emphasized patronage, favoritism, corruption, coercion and co-optation. By tracing Maximino's career, from revolutionary soldier to powerful political leader, we learn how and why the goals that had originally inspired the 'party of the revolution'—primarily democracy and social justice—were sacrificed in order to empower it.

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0739137492

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Industrial relations and financial globalization

Analysis of national experiences in Europe, America and Asia

By: Ignasi Brunet,Alejandro Pizzi,David Moral

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Industrial relations and financial globalization

Analysis of national experiences in Europe, America and Asia

By: Ignasi Brunet,Alejandro Pizzi,David Moral

Capitalism in its modern form has become universal and has a presence in practically every country in the world, including those which once called themselves Communist. This book studies its effects on different labor markets, from those linked to highly tertiary economies (EU-27, USA and Japan, to the most productive economies, such as China, and on to economic models that are in full transition from secondary to tertiary economies, as is the case in several Latin American countries.

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Universitat de València

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8491343997

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The Boys of Dunbar

A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball

By: Alejandro Danois

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The Boys of Dunbar

A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball

By: Alejandro Danois

The inspiring true story of a remarkable coach whose superb undefeated high-school basketball team in 1980s Baltimore produced four NBA players and gave hope to a desperate neighborhood and city—“a feel-good story that is timely as well as true” (Glenn C. Altschuler, Florida Courier). As the crack epidemic swept across inner-city America in the early 1980s, the streets of Baltimore were crime ridden. For poor kids from the housing projects, the future looked bleak. But basketball could provide the quickest ticket out, an opportunity to earn a college scholarship and perhaps even play in the NBA. Dunbar High School had one of the most successful basketball programs in the country; in the early 1980s, the Dunbar Poets were arguably the best high school team of all time. Four starting players—Muggsy Bogues, Reggie Williams, David Wingate, and Reggie Lewis—would eventually play in the NBA, an unheard-of success rate. In The Boys of Dunbar, Alejandro Danois revisits the 1981–1982 season with the Poets as the team conquered all its opponents. But more than that, he takes us into the lives of these kids, and especially of Coach Bob Wade, a former NFL player from the same neighborhood who knew that the basketball court, and the lessons his players would learn there, held the key to the future. “[Danois’] tale of the basketball exploits of a handful of high school students in the 1980s shows young men motivated by their coach and other recreation leaders to dream beyond the hardship of their geography” (Bijan C. Bayne, The Washington Post). “Inspirational stories can be found everywhere in high-school sports, but Dunbar and its legendary coach, Bob Wade, stand out” (Booklist). The Boys of Dunbar will leave you cheering every victory.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451666993

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Addressing the water challenges in the agriculture sector in Near East and North Africa

State of Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) thematic paper

By: Elmahdi, A., Badawy, A., Alejandro Paltan Lopez, H.

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Addressing the water challenges in the agriculture sector in Near East and North Africa

State of Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) thematic paper

By: Elmahdi, A., Badawy, A., Alejandro Paltan Lopez, H.

The background paper entitled “Addressing the water challenges in the agriculture sector in Near East and North Africa (NENA)” is part of a series of background papers that supported the production of the regional publication "State of Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) in the Near East and North Africa Region". The paper reports on the issues, responses and monitoring progress in relation to supporting the region to maintain local agricultural production with less water.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251363250

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9789251363256

The Rag Doll Plagues

By: Alejandro Morales

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The Rag Doll Plagues

By: Alejandro Morales

A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His MajestyÍs highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plagues, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.

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Arte Publico Press

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1611922569

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Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

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Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of Havana into a vibrant Atlantic port city and the fastest-growing urban center in the Americas in the late sixteenth century. He shows how local ambitions took advantage of the imperial design and situates Havana within the slavery and economic systems of the colonial Atlantic.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807878065

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9780807878064

Against Inequality

Contributions to a Discourse of Social Emancipation

By: Alejandro I. Canales,Dídimo Castillo Fernández

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Against Inequality

Contributions to a Discourse of Social Emancipation

By: Alejandro I. Canales,Dídimo Castillo Fernández

In Against Inequality, the authors offer a theoretical and political proposal for social emancipation, seen as an opportunity to build conditions of equality in contexts of freedom, not only for ethical but essentially political foundations. To achieve this, the authors confront inequality in two ways: as a social phenomenon (and, therefore, historically situated and structured) and through critical reflection on the concepts, categories, indicators and frameworks of its understanding. In this sense, they propose a critical reflection of the ways in which it has been thought theoretically and politically at various times, with special reference to the way in which it has been conceived in modern, capitalist society.

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9004681116

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Buying Into Change

Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939-1982

By: Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral

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Buying Into Change

Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939-1982

By: Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral

2023 Hagley Prize for Best Book in Business History Buying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939-1975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the stage for Spain's transition to democracy during the late 1970s. This transition is broadly significant to both a Spanish public still struggling to redefine their society after Franco and to scholars who have long debated the origins of Spain's current democracy, yet many aspects of it remain largely unexamined. Buying into Change incorporates mass consumption into our understanding of Spain's democratic transition by tracing the spread and social impact of new foreign-influenced department stores, of imported innovations such as modern mass advertising, and of consumer magazines that promoted foreign products. Initially, these enterprises backed Franco's conservative policies, and the regime in turn encouraged consumption in order to improve its image both domestically and abroad. Spain's new globally oriented commerce ultimately sold retailers and shoppers not just foreign ways of buying and selling but also subversive ideas. Imported 1960s fashions brought along countercultural notions on issues such as gender equality. And as Spaniards consumed more like their foreign neighbors, they increasingly viewed themselves as cosmopolitan and European and identified with liberal political conditions abroad, undermining Francoism's doctrine of national exceptionalism, thus laying the social foundations for democratization and European integration in Franco's wake.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496226305

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The Medicine of Memory

A Mexica Clan in California

By: Alejandro Murguía

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The Medicine of Memory

A Mexica Clan in California

By: Alejandro Murguía

An American Book Award winner’s creative memoir “traces his own family's history, as well as the long story of Hispanics in America . . . Spirited writing” (Library Journal). People who live in California deny the past, asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo, no one has the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred. From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been. In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family’s reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he records, and draws us into, his own California history.

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University of Texas Press

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0292778708

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9780292778702

Transnational Governance and South American Politics

The Political Economy of Norms

By: Alejandro M. Peña

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Transnational Governance and South American Politics

The Political Economy of Norms

By: Alejandro M. Peña

This book examines the interface between transnational private governance and domestic politics in South America. It explores the social and political factors that condition how ‘global’ private norms, discourses, and initiatives dealing with sustainability and CSR regulation are engaged with, hybridized, and challenged by local actors in Argentina and Brazil. Inverting the conventional approach to global governance studies, it unpacks the complex forms in which domestic political-cultural elements embed global norms and discourses with meaning and mobilizing power, conditioning their appeal to potential participants and supporters. In doing so, the author illuminates the ‘receiving side’ of private regulation and governance, developing a nuanced understanding of transnational norm diffusion wherein political and ideational factors in the global South are granted primacy over global structures, processes, and agents.

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Springer

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1137538635

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Labor, Class, and the International System

By: Alejandro Portes,John Walton

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Labor, Class, and the International System

By: Alejandro Portes,John Walton

Labor, Class, and the International System explores the interface between the labor process, class structure, and the global requirements of accumulation as a necessary complement to the analysis of capital and dominant institutions and focus on this interaction to clarify some of the apparent contradictions and bring the general models in line with empirical reality. The book provides analysis of concepts and hypotheses derived from general theory with available empirical knowledge on each particular topic. Each chapter addresses problem areas namely, international migration; pre-capitalist modes of production and the reproduction of the urban labor force; and dominant ideologies of inequality and class structure. Sociologists, political scientists, economists, researchers, and students of international studies will find the book very interesting and insightful.

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Elsevier

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1483263312

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The Sexy Chef Cookbook

By: Rachel Alejandro,Chef Barni Alejandro-Rennebeck

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The Sexy Chef Cookbook

By: Rachel Alejandro,Chef Barni Alejandro-Rennebeck

Chef Barni shares her original recipes from The Sexy Chef’s wide selection, as well as new dishes created for this book while Rachel tells us how to look and feel our best every day through a healthy lifestyle.

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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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Consolidating Economic Governance in Latin America

By: Alejandro Angel

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Consolidating Economic Governance in Latin America

By: Alejandro Angel

This book explains how Latin American countries consolidate economic governance after serious disruptions to their formal and informal policy making routines. It asserts that the process of institutional change that started as a result of such disruptions resulted in complementary institutions, which supported a new consolidated pattern of economic governance. In addition, this work also offers a robust theoretical underpinning to economic governance, independent from performance. Performance figures prominently as a criterion to assess economic governance; however, crises are becoming more frequent and performance does not entirely depend on governments’ actions. This book argues that governance in the economic arena depends on the ability and feasibility of limiting the discretion of vested interests over economic policies insofar as these interests can shift the costs of their actions so the rest of the society bears them.

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Springer Nature

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3030645223

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In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

By: Alejandro L. Madrid

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In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

By: Alejandro L. Madrid

In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality within the Western art music tradition elevated Carrillo to iconic status among European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely overlooked by music scholars, critics, and performers. Confronting this paucity of scholarship on Carrillo and his music, Alejandro L. Madrid goes above and beyond "filling in" the historical record. Combining archival and ethnographic research with musical analysis and cultural theory, Madrid argues that Carrillo and Sonido 13 are best understood as a cultural complex: a network of moments, spaces, and articulations in which Carrillo and his music continuously re-acquire significance and meaning. Thus, Madrid explores Carrillo's music and ideas not only in relation to the historical moments of their inception, but also in relation to the various cultural projects that kept them alive and re-signified them through the beginning of the twenty-first century. Eschewing traditionally linear historical frameworks, In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 employs an innovative transhistorical narrative in which past, present, and future are explored dialogically in order to understand the politics of performance and self-representation behind Carrillo and Sonido 13. In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 transforms the traditional genre of the composer study, treating it not as a celebration of "masters" and "masterworks," but as a pointed postcolonial intervention that offers invaluable insight into the politics of cultural exchange, experimentalism, marginality, and cultural capital in twentieth century Mexico.

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Oxford University Press

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019021581X

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Danzón

Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

By: Alejandro L. Madrid,Robin D. Moore

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Danzón

Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

By: Alejandro L. Madrid,Robin D. Moore

Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A fundamentally hybrid music and dance complex, it reflects the fusion of European and African elements and had a strong influence on the development of later Latin dance traditions as well as early jazz in New Orleans. Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance studies the emergence, hemisphere-wide influence, and historical and contemporary significance of this music and dance phenomenon. Co-authors Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore take an ethnomusicological, historical, and critical approach to the processes of appropriation of the danzón in new contexts, its changing meanings over time, and its relationship to other musical forms. Delving into its long history of controversial popularization, stylistic development, glorification, decay, and rebirth in a continuous transnational dialogue between Cuba and Mexico as well as New Orleans, the authors explore the production, consumption, and transformation of this Afro-diasporic performance complex in relation to global and local ideological discourses. By focusing on interactions across this entire region as well as specific local scenes, Madrid and Moore underscore the extent of cultural movement and exchange within the Americas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, and are thereby able to analyze the danzón, the dance scenes it has generated, and the various discourses of identification surrounding it as elements in broader regional processes. Danzón is a significant addition to the literature on Latin American music, dance, and expressive culture; it is essential reading for scholars, students, and fans of this music alike.

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0199965811

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The King's Living Image

The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico

By: Alejandro Caneque

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The King's Living Image

The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico

By: Alejandro Caneque

To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of viceregal power and its relation to ideas of kingship. Examining this figure, The King's Living Image challenges long-held perspectives on the political nature of Spanish colonialism, recovering, at the same time, the complexity of the political discourses and practices of Spanish rule. It does so by studying the viceregal political culture that developed in New Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the mechanisms, both formal and informal, of viceregal rule. In so doing, The King's Living Image questions the very existence of a "colonial state" and contends that imperial power was constituted in ritual ceremonies. It also emphasizes the viceroys' significance in carrying out the civilizing mission of the Spanish monarchy with regard to the indigenous population. The King's Living Image will redefine the ways in which scholars have traditionally looked at the viceregal administration in colonial Mexico.

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Routledge

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113594508X

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Afro-Latin American Studies

An Introduction

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

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Afro-Latin American Studies

An Introduction

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107177626

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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

A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers in the wider colonial system. Author Alejandro Vera, recent winner of the International Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize for the Spanish edition of his monograph, provides a fascinating account of the quotidian cultural and social significance of music in varying physical spheres - from cathedrals, convents, and monasteries, to private houses and public spaces. He brings to life a city long neglected in the shadow of other colonial centers of economic power, asserting the importance of duality in the period and its music - particularly centering one nun harpist's conception of music as "sweet penance." Drawing from historical documents and musical scores of the period, A Sweet Penance of Music breaks new ground, laying the foundation for a revisionist approach to the study of music in the colonial Americas.

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0190940220

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9780190940225

Economic Sociology

A Systematic Inquiry

By: Alejandro Portes

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Economic Sociology

A Systematic Inquiry

By: Alejandro Portes

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at different levels of abstraction play in its organization. Economic Sociology fills this critical gap by surveying the current state of the field while advancing a framework for further theoretical development. Alejandro Portes examines economic sociology's principal assumptions, key explanatory concepts, and selected research sites. He argues that economic activity is embedded in social and cultural relations, but also that power and the unintended consequences of rational purposive action must be factored in when seeking to explain or predict economic behavior. Drawing upon a wealth of examples, Portes identifies three strategic sites of research--the informal economy, ethnic enclaves, and transnational communities--and he eschews grand narratives in favor of mid-range theories that help us understand specific kinds of social action. The book shows how the meta-assumptions of economic sociology can be transformed, under certain conditions, into testable propositions, and puts forward a theoretical agenda aimed at moving the field out of its present impasse.

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1400835178

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