Product Description: The Politics of Exile in Latin America addresses exile as a major mechanism of institutional exclusion used by all types of governments in the region against their own citizens, while they often provided asylum to aliens fleeing persecution...read more

Product Description: This book traces the interplay between the public structuring and regulation of identities and the creative processes of collective identification, appropriation and evasion of identities. It deals with the ways in which individuals and social groups have developed and enacted identities as cultural resources with different degrees of public recognition and political legitimation, and how these identities have had an impact in defining the boundaries of social order and diversity...read more

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"Finally, a study that moves beyond abstract assertions of the importance of a transnational perspective to demonstrate compellingly why transnationalism matters in the specific context of Central America. This is a rich, interdisciplinary look at regional history, politics, and society--of immense value for students of Latin American studies and transnationalism alike."--Thomas Legler, coeditor of Promoting Democracy in the AmericasPolitical theorists tend to write about the countries of Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) either as individual nation-states or as the pawns and victims of international intervention. What these approaches ignore is the shared history of these countries, which were a single nation until domestic and colonial forces dissolved it in the early nineteenth century.In Transnational Politics in Central America, Luis Roniger argues for the importance of examining the connected history, close relationships and mutual impact of the societies of Central America upon one another. Eschewing well-trod theoretical approaches that do not account for the existence of transnational dynamics before the current stage of globalization, this landmark book identifies recurring trends of state fragmentation and attempts at reunification or social and political association in the region over the past two centuries.

Product Description: Political exile, a major political practice throughout most of the 19th and 20th centuries, is still an under-researched topic. While ubiquitous and fascinating, with some notable and important exceptions, until recently it has been conceived as somewhat marginal for the development of these societies, instead being studied in the framework of traditional concepts and concerns in history and the social sciences...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes the Americas, North and South, in the global and comparative arena, showing how these societies viewed each other and Europe as they followed the road to multiple forms of modernity and globalization. New insights are revealed on the ways in which reflected conceptions of modernity, with utopian overtones, influenced the ways that politicians and intellectuals viewed their own societies, other societies in the New World, and the older nations of Europe...read more

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Product Description: This book shows how different collective identities in Latin America shape the access to, and participation in, the public domain. It significantly enhances our understanding of lthe historical experience of societies marked by social, political and intellectual struggles as each shapes a collective identity according to competing visions of modernity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Determining the foundations and contradictory implications of the liberalisation, democratisation, and sociopolitical restructuring occuring today on an almost global scale constitutes a major challenge for contemporary social science...read more

Product Description: In this book, Luis Roniger offers a comprehensive and systematic discussion of the influence of clientelism and clientelistic relationships in social and political life in Mexico and Brazil. The author describes, analyzes, and compares clientelistic arrangements not only in terms of economic development and social differentiation, but also as a strategy of interaction and control over economic and political markets shaped both by structural factors and cultural patterns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The form of social relations described by the terms 'patronage' and 'patron-client relations' is of central concern to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists today. Characterised by its voluntary and highly personal but often fully institutionalised nature, it is a type of behaviour found in almost every human society...read more