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Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
The twenty-first century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results-but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this "pink tide" go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin American disenfranchisement: resource-rich land and unscrupulous extraction.
Recounting the story commodity...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
c2021
Physical Desc
1 atlas (xi, 194 p.) : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Maps for Curious Minds series is back-with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and geographical wonders of North America No matter how well you think you know North America, the 100 infographic maps in this singular atlas uncover a trove of fresh wonders that make the continent seem like the center of the universe. Did you know that North America is where the first T. rex was found? Or that it's where you...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 442 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a...
Author
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Edition
25th anniversary ed. /
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin...
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