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Guerrillas in Latin America

This book is a reference work in the study of the Latin American guerrilla phenomena of the second half of the 20th century. Drawing on both archival research and interviews and using a consistent framewo…

Rodrigo Christofoletti

International Heritage

This book celebrates decades of safeguarding cultural heritage and reckons with reconfigurations and shifts that have shaped the field and understandings of it. The author reflects on a career of safeguar…

Victor A. Ramos

History of the Geological Sciences in Argentina

The science of geology is intertwined with the growth of the field in Argentina. This book explores those dual historical developments and, as an expanded translation of Historia de la Geología Argentina:…

Roberta Marx Delson

Scientists or Spies?

In Scientists or Spies, Roberta Delson explores the intersection of three historical tropes: World War I, Science, and Pan Americanism, from the period leading up to and through the end of the War (1910-1…

Non-human Animals and People: Interactions, Agents and Materialities

Animals are agency-bearing beings and are able to bond in emotional relationships with people. In these various associations, the boundary between human and nonhuman is permeable according to the degree o…

Emerging Viruses in Latin America

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis. In 2014, the WHO cited 93 public health events…

Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Md Belal Hossen

Economic Diplomacy

Economic diplomacy has become more notable in recent years, helping developing nations like Bangladesh maximise their national interests. Bangladesh is rapidly transitioning from a low-income to a middle-…

Inhabiting Debt

Debt is not something that can be circumscribed to the relationship between economies, finance, 'development' and society, but operates within phenomena of intensifying social, gender and racial inequalit…

Archaeology of the South Coast of Tierra del Fuego

This book brings together recent results of extensive and varied archaeological, stable isotope and ancient DNA research from the south coast of Tierra del Fuego and carefully integrates them with earlier…

Martin M. Checa-Artasu

Neo-Gothic Architecture in Mexico

Neo-Gothic architecture is a global phenomenon observed in Mexico from the 1850s to the mid-20th century, even with current examples. In Mexico there are more than 500 buildings with some neo-Gothic eleme…

Aníbal Rosales Hernández, Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos, Jesús Viloria Rendón, Laila Iskandar Nahas

Agriculture Under Climate Change

This book focuses on the intersection of climate change and agriculture, specifically addressing how climate variability and change impact agricultural systems in Venezuela. The main topics include climat…

José Guadalupe Chan-Quijano, Jesús Ignacio Castro-Salazar, José Luis Carpio-Domínguez

Contaminated Soils in Mexico

This book uses a green criminology lens to analyze strategies to minimize and propose alternatives on the damage caused to humans and environmental health by contaminated soils in Mexico, by recognizing t…

Heritage in Eight Acts

Heritage in Eight Acts brings together contributions on cultural heritage at an international level with an emphasis on Latin American and Ibero-American studies, addressing points of convergence between …

Nature(s) in Construction

This book provides the state of the art of ethnobiology in Argentina and related Latin American countries, highlighting timely trends and topics. It synthesizes studies resulting from the III Jornadas Arg…

Rethinking Amazonian Cities in the State of Rondônia

This open access book examines deforestation process and proposes sustainable changes for specific Amazonian cities in the state of Rondônia. This state, located in the southwestern region of the Brazilia…

Quality of Life in Argentinian Cities in 2010

This book introduces a quality of life index that compares the intra-urban particularities of 23 cities in the Argentine Republic. Integrating demographic size, functional specialization, and regional loc…

The Cavendish Library Archive

Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America

Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as …

Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America

Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as …