Product Description: Five sections reflect the critical stages of military development in the continent. The first deals with the conquest in the 16th century, the second with the independence process in the first part of the nineteenth century, the next two with international and civil conflicts, and the last with the challenges of the 21st century...read more

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Product Description: If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon which most grand theory is based...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work provides an analysis of change in contemporary Cuba, the ways in which present circumstances will shape the future and the extent to which Cuba fits, or defies, models of transition. It also looks at how political, social and economic sectors might respond to various transition scenarios...read more

Product Description: The ascendancy of technocratic personnel and their imposition of neo-liberal economic policies have come to define Latin American politics in the 1980s and 1990s. This book is the first comparative analysis of these events and their implications for the future of democracy on the continent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: During the 1980s the Mexican regime faced a series of economic, social, and political disasters that led many to question its survival. Yet by 1992 the economy was again growing, with inflation under control and the confidence of international investors restored...read more