Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (Hardcover, New Edition)

For an additional chapter on health and human security: Click Here. For suggested resources for each chapter in the book: Click Here. For additional resources on ecological and social issues: Click Here. For additional resources on indigenous peoples: Click Here. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this thoroughly updated and revised second edition is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Genuinely regional in scope, this textbook examines the hemispheric and global context of these conditions as well as the relations among Latin American and Caribbean states and their relations with the United States. Expert contributors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world. Harris and Nef have assembled a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and all readers concerned with understanding the past, present, and future development of contemporary Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas as a whole. Contributions by: Guido Pascual Galafassi, Richard L. Harris, Judith Adler Hellman, Cristobal Kay, Michael Kearney, Francesca Miller, Jorge Nef, Viviana Patroni, Wilder Robles, and Stefano Varese.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series
Release date:	2008
First published:	February 2008
Editors:	Richard L. Harris • Jorge Nef
Dimensions:	238 x 168 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	360
Edition:	New Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-5523-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7425-5523-2
Barcode:	9780742555235

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