The Iberian-latin American Connection
The Iberian-latin American Connection

Author: Howard J. Wiarda

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1000302318

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This book is especially timely as Latin America is diversifying its international connections, Spain and Portugal are seeking to expand their interests and presence in Latin America, and U.S. policy toward both regions has become increasingly complex. Contributors trace the history of Iberian-Latin American relations from colonial times and then examine the cultural, economic, political, and strategic ties that currently exist between the two regions. Particular attention is focused on the impact of Iberian-Latin American relations on U.S. foreign policy. The book concludes with a section of country-specific case studies.

Bridging the Atlantic
Bridging the Atlantic

Author: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for Latin America

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-04-04

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780791429181

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This collection of historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and literary essays examines the linkages between the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.

Iberia and Latin America
Iberia and Latin America

Author: Howard J. Wiarda

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780847682539

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In this book, distinguished policy expert Howard J. Wiarda examines the rarely studied connection between Iberia and Latin America, arguing that there is a significant and complex relationship between their histories, cultures, and politics. In this companion volume to Democracy and Its Discontents, Wiarda focuses on the political, cultural, economic, and social foundations of Iberia and its transition to democracy.

Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America
Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9004302158

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Envisioning Others offers a multidisciplinary view of the relationship between race and visual culture in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to colonial Peru and Colombia, post-Independence Mexico, and the pre-Emancipation United States. Contributed by specialists in Latin American and Iberian art history, literature, history, and cultural studies, its ten chapters take a transnational view of what ‘race’ meant, and how visual culture supported and shaped this meaning, within the Ibero-American sphere from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. Case studies and regionally-focused essays are balanced by historiographical and theoretical offerings for a fresh perspective that challenges the reader to discern broad intersections of race, color, and the visual throughout the Iberian world. Contributors are Beatriz Balanta, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Larissa Brewer-García, Ananda Cohen Suarez, Elisa Foster, Grace Harpster, Ilona Katzew, Matilde Mateo, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, and Erin Kathleen Rowe.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Handbook of Latin American Studies

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13:

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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.

Understanding Latin America: A Decoding Guide
Understanding Latin America: A Decoding Guide

Author: Alfredo Toro Hardy

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2017-10-06

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9813229969

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From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances. Little is understood about the idiosyncrasies of Latin-Americans, their cultural identity and social values. Differences between Brazilians and Spanish Americans, or amid the diverse Spanish American countries, are not sufficiently understood. Even less is known about the amplitude of the Iberian heritage of such countries, or about the miscegenation and acculturation processes that took place among their different constitutive races. There is no clarity regarding the Western nature of Latin America or about its cultural affinities with Latin Europe. Nor is there sufficient understanding of the links between the Latin population of the United States and the inhabitants of Latin America.This book aims to fill the gap by focusing on Latin America's history, culture, identity and idiosyncrasies. It serves as a guide to understand regional attitudes, meanings and behavioural differences of the region. It also analyses the present economic situation of the region, while trying to predict the future of the region. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to readers keen on exploring the region for potential opportunities in trade, investment or any other kind of business and cultural endeavor.

Close Encounters of Empire
Close Encounters of Empire

Author: Gilbert Michael Joseph

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780822320999

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Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 1
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 1

Author: Miguel A. Centeno

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-29

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1107311306

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The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.

Beyond Tordesillas
Beyond Tordesillas

Author: Robert Patrick Newcomb

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9780814213476

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In Beyond Tordesillas both young and established scholars forcefully challenge the disciplinary boundaries that for too long have separated Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies. Instead, the volume's contributors reveal Iberian and Latin American cultures to be inherently transoceanic, and therefore best approached in comparative terms.

The Women of Colonial Latin America
The Women of Colonial Latin America

Author: Susan Migden Socolow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0521196655

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A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.