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Hand-colored lithograph. Landing of the American Army at Vera Cruz. Sponsored by: Texas State Library, Train to Share, UTB/TSC, William Hudson ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/whudsonmexwar/1009/thumbnail.jpg

This book offers a critical analysis of the spread of branding discourse and practice to new "objects"-from the individual, to the city, region, and nation-state. It offers a novel perspective on the development and function of neoliberalism and globalization in Latin America, as well as the relationship between culture, identity, and markets.

"In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade and therefore bolstered the expansion of the largest intercontinental forced migration in history. Unlike previous histories of the RAC, Pettigrew's study pursues the Company's story beyond the trade's complete deregulation in 1712 to its demise in 1752. Opening the trade led to its escalation, which provided a reliable supply of enslaved Africans to the mainland American colonies, thus playing a critical part in entrenching African slavery as the colonies' preferred solution to the American problem of labor supply"--

A comprehensive study which looks at the politics of legislative debates in 33 liberal democracies in Europe, North America and Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This book offers an account of the rules and practices determining floor access, with a particular focus on gender, seniority, and legislative party positions.

"Cuba in an Age of Economic Reform" published on by Oxford University Press.

Preface. -- 1. The heritage of slavery. -- 2. The Negro community: rural communities, urban communities, social divisions among Negroes. -- 3. Taking part in politics. -- 4. Earning a living. -- 5. Getting an education. -- 6. Worshipping God. -- 7. Facing life's problems: health, problems of the Negro family, crime and delinquincy. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Original pictorial paper wrappers. Call number label and barcode on front cover. ; 2 10

The Latin American philosophy of education presents stories, authors, dialogues and themes scarcely studied in traditional philosophical and educational circles. This article seeks to highlight part of its history, in order to position critical reaches from its traditional sources and current developers, made a renewal of the educational problem. In a revitalization of the Latin American philosophical problem (abandoning the representational character in the question of authenticity, characterization or existence), which is associated with the questioning by the democratic task of educational institutions, and its link with decolonial demands. The research seeks to build a thematic line that involves the questioning of the relationship between knowledge, communities and institutions, as a way of sizing and judging the space of democracy and coloniality ; La filosofía latinoamericana de la educación presenta historias, autores, diálogos y temáticas escasamente estudiadas en los círculos filosóficos y educativos tradicionales. Este artículo busca poner de relieve parte de su historia, con el fin de posicionar alcances críticos desde sus fuentes tradicionales y desarrolladores actuales, hacía una renovación de la problemática educativa. En una revitalización del problema filosófico latinoamericano (abandonando el carácter representacional en la pregunta por la autenticidad, caracterización o existencia), que lo asocia al cuestionamiento por el quehacer democrático de las instituciones educativas, y su vínculo con las exigencias decoloniales. La investigación busca construir una línea temática que incurra en el cuestionamiento de la relación entre saberes, comunidades e instituciones, como forma de dimensionar y juzgar el espacio de la democracia y la colonialidad

En la actualidad existe un amplio conocimiento acerca del voto económico; conocimiento que, en general, proviene de democracias desarrolladas (Norteamérica y Europa Occidental). Existen trabajos relevantes sobre democracias con niveles de ingresos bajos, pero basados en estudios de casos con datos agregados. Trabajos que incorporen diferentes países y que utilicen encuestas con datos individuales son prácticamente inexistentes. A partir de encuestas electorales, en el siguiente trabajo se examinan 13 países de América Latina de manera conjunta. Mediante la estimación de un modelo de voto altamente especificado y puesto a prueba rigurosamente, se concluye que hay efectos de voto económico sociotrópico retrospectivo generales y bastante fuertes. Este hallazgo posee importancia científica y normativa, indicando que los gobiernos en esas democracias no pueden escapar a la sanción electoral por los pobres resultados económicos. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT ; We now know a good deal about economic voting, but that knowledge comes mostly from research on high-income democracies, such as those in North America and Western Europe. Of course, there are serious relevant studies on low-income democracies, but they are largely of single-country design, frequently employing aggregate data. Multi-national, individual-level survey designs are all but non-existent. Here we examine a 13 - nation pool of current Latin American voting surveys. From estimation of a fully specified, and vigorously challenged, voting model, we conclude there are general, and rather strong, sociotropic retrospective economic voting effects. This finding is ofnormative, as well as scientific importance, indicating that governments in these low-income democracies cannot escape electoral sanction for the delivery of poor economic performance.

This new number that I have been honorably invited to coordinate of the Cuban Forum magazine, and in which I am grateful to the outstanding academics and experts in regional politics who contribute with their analysis, seeks to give clues to the reader interested in Cuba and the Latin American region of the big questions that are awakened after a new long electoral cycle, and its subsequent ramifications. For the first time in a long time, the electoral results do not seem to be marking a uniform course in the region, i.e., neither a complete shift to the right nor a return to the left of the early 21st century. In addition, some countries have been shaken by large-scale and long-lasting street protests, which in some cases have already been resolved (Ecuador, Bolivia), and in others still persist (Colombia and Chile). In any case, democracy in Latin America and its quality continues to be debated. ; Este nuevo número que honrosamente se me ha invitado a coordinar de la revista Foro Cubano, y en el cual estoy agradecidos a los destacados académicos y expertos de la política regional que contribuyen con sus análisis, busca darle pistas al lector interesado en Cuba y la región Latinoamericana de los grandes interrogantes que se despiertan luego de un nuevo largo ciclo electoral, y sus ramificaciones posteriores. Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, los resultados electorales parecen no estar marcando un rumbo uniforme en la región, es decir, ni se terminó de dar un giro completo a la derecha ni hubo un retorno a la izquierda de inicios del siglo XXI. Adicionalmente, algunos países se han visto sacudidos por protestas callejeras de grandes proporciones y extensa duración, que en algunos casos ya fueron solucionadas (Ecuador, Bolivia), y en otros aún perduran (Colombia y Chile). En todo caso, la democracia en América Latina y su calidad siguen en debate.

Loving and hating America since the 1990s -- Jewishness, race, and political emotions -- The fact of fraught societies I: the problem of remainders -- The fact of fraught societies II: the problem of reproduction and the missing link problem -- The capability of play -- Playing in fraught societies -- Lenny Bruce and the intimacy of play -- Philip Roth tells the greatest Jewish joke ever told -- All in the Family in the moral history of America -- Losing our religion in the domain of play.

Prologue. the last hurrah of Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Empire and communications -- City lights -- Cultural capital -- The greater city -- Babylon revisited -- Wandering rocks -- City of refuge -- Exiles and emigres -- The city at war -- Words, words, words -- Books as bullets -- New York discovers America -- Limousines on grub street -- Scenes of writing -- That winter-and the next -- A fractious peace -- New York observed -- Soldier's home -- The city in black and white -- Berenice Abbott's "village in the city" -- Gottscho's Oz -- Weegee's dark carnival -- Greenwich Village: ghosts, goths, and glimpses of the moon -- Bohemia was yesterday -- Conciliating nobody: the masses and the villagers -- Brightness fall -- Another part of the forest -- Culture and anarchy: "The sublime is now" -- 1948: The end of something -- Verdict -- Last hurrah at the Waldorf -- Days without end