Palgrave Macmillan series on 'Studies of the Americas'
Edited by Maxine Molyneux, Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
Description:
Titles in this series will typically be multi-disciplinary studies of aspects
of the societies of the hemisphere, particularly in the areas of politics,
economics, history, anthropology, sociology and the environment. The series
will aim to cover a comparative perspective across the Americas, including
Canada and the Caribbean as well as Latin America and the United States.
The series will include edited collections, which will allow an exploration of a topic from several different disciplinary angles by eminent scholars; book-length studies providing a deeper focus on a single topic; and readers on specific themes.
Submissions:
If you have a project for our series, feel free to be in touch with series
editor about the topic: Maxine Molyneux (Maxine.Molyneux@sas.ac.uk).
However, please send (by email or regular mail) the actual proposal to Farideh Koohi-Kamali at Palgrave.
In your cover letter to Farideh, please mention that you are interested in having your project considered for the series. If possible, include a proposal, detailed table of contents, sample material, and a current curriculum vitae.
Send to:
Farideh Koohi-Kamali
Palgrave / St. Martin’s Press
175 Fifth Avenue, room 200
New York, NY 10010
farideh.koohi@palgrave-usa.com
Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective
Gareth A. Jones and Dennis Rodgers (eds.)
Criminal violence has come dramatically to the forefront in contemporary Latin America, to the extent that it is widely considered the critical social concern of the present. Youth are among the principal victims but also the primary perpetrators of this new panorama of brutality. At the same time, the youth violence phenomenon remains profoundly misunderstood, as sensationalist myths and stereotypes abound. Through the juxtaposition of wide-ranging, cutting-edge studies focusing specifically on the youth gang phenomenon and the dynamics of juvenile justice, this volume provides a balanced and systematic comparative overview of the reality of present-day Latin American youth violence. Published October 2009, Palgrave Macmillan. More details.
Governance after Neoliberalism in Latin America,
edited by Jean Grugel and Pia Riggirozzi
This book analyses the proposals for development and post-neoliberal governance that are emerging in Latin America and look at the place of social and political inclusion, as well as economic growth, within them. Disscussions of the region’s economy cannot be meaningfully separated from a debate about its politics – and in particular, discussion of how social and political resources are distributed. This book discusses the possibilities and limitations of state activism and social/political inclusion after neoliberalism and the extent to which a common regional trend away from the neoliberal state can genuinely be discerned. Published July 2009, Palgrave Macmillan. More details.
Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies,
by Justin Read
With the rise of globalization, the American hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically. But what is the role of culture in this new integration? To what extent do the Americas share a common culture? This book starts from the premise that cultural conflict is inherent to all American cultures. Thus, the only way to study national cultures hemispherically is to examine the inter-cultural collisions both between American nations, and within them. Through readings of key 20th century texts, Read argues that such conflicts form a distinctly poetic process. Modernist and vanguardista poets sought to make the language of cultural conflict – translation – into a concrete reality in its own right, the language of the Americas. Published August 2009, Palgrave Macmillan. More details.
Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution and Goals
by John M Kirk and H Michael Erisman
While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in the world (ELAM) has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from the Third World; and since 2004 over 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean have had their eyesight restored. How has this small nation of 11.3 million people managed to save more lives in the developing world than all of the G-8 countries together? And what are its motives? This book, the result of four years of research in Cuba, provides an updated analysis of this extraordinary record. Published July 2009, Palgrave Macmillan. More details.
Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America
edited by Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page
This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production, distribution and marketing. Published July 2009, Palgrave Macmillan. More details.
Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940-1967
by Steven High
This book examines the social, economic and political aftermath of the famous Anglo-American 'destroyers-for-bases' deal of 2nd September 1940 that saw fifty obsolete U.S. destroyers exchanged for 'base colonies' in Trinidad, Bermuda, Newfoundland and the Bahamas. While the diplomatic importance of the destroyers for bases deal has been widely acknowledged, few have examined the social impact of these 'friendly invasions' on the base colonies themselves. Published February 2009, Palgrave Macmillan. More details
Ronald Reagan and the 1980s: Perceptions, Policies, Legacies
Edited by Cheryl Hudson and Gareth Davies
By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism. America was the world's only superpower, Communism had been defeated, the economic misery and inflation of the late 1970s and early 1980s had given way to prosperity and vast global wealth, and a new swashbuckling patriotism had entered into the public imagination. This patriotism and optimism was personified by an enduring American president -- Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to Ronald Reagan's political and cultural triumphs, provide an assessment of the political, social, and economic substance and legacy of his policies--not just for Americans but for the shape of the world order. More details
Wellbeing and Development in Peru: Local and Universal Views Confronted
Edited by James Copestake
Development is something we all aspire to, but also readily criticize for failing to live up to our hopes of sustained improvement in human wellbeing. This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict. A mix of ethnographic and questionnaire data from seven poor urban and rural communities straddling the Andes is used to describe and analyze local and global interpretations of their inhabitants’ pursuit of wellbeing. More details
The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration: Responding to Globalization in the Americas
edited by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea and Kenneth C. Shadlen
Benefiting from a truly Pan-American perspective, these essays evaluate the economics and politics of the new patterns of North-South integration in the particular context of the Americas, questioning if regional and bilateral trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA or the FTAA are appropriate mechanisms to promote economic development. More details
Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900-1930
by Nicola Miller
This book is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model. More details
The Republican Party and Immigration Politics: From Proposition 187 to George W. Bush
by Andrew Wroe
This book examines the 1990s backlash against illegal immigrants. Wroe explains why many Americans turned against immigration, looking at the origins of California's Proposition 187 and its wider political implications. More details
Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico
Edited by Matthew Butler
While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion. Looking at anticlericalism, indigenous cults and Catholic pilgrimage, these authors reveal that the Revolution was a period of genuine religious change, as well as social upheaval. More details
Cultures
of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
edited by Nancy Priscilla Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca and David H. Treece
This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical
and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors
demonstrate how this space is not just the result of the imposition of a
Portuguese imperial project, but that it has been shaped by diverse colonial
cultures. The Lusophone context offers a unique perspective on the history
of the Atlantic.
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The
Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture
by John King
The Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) is a privileged vantage point from
which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American
literary and political culture in the 1970s. Edited by the Nobel prize winner
Octavio Paz at a time in which he was reassessing his political and nationalistic
commitments, it featured the editorial partnership of a heterogeneous group
of Mexican writers. The book offers a detailed analysis of a vitally important
moment in Mexican cultural and political history, in the aftermath of the
1968 massacre of students in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, at a time when a new
president was seeking to repair the fractured relationship between intellectuals
and the state. The most important figure in the magazine was its editor
Octavio Paz and the study offers a fresh interpretation of the development
of his political thought and artistic concerns in arguably the most vital
and productive period of his life.
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Democratization,
Development, and Legality. Chile , 1831-1973
by Julio Faundez
This book traces the evolution of Chilean political and legal institutions
by looking at the process of democratization. As well as explaining the
strengths and weaknesses of the political regime, Faundez shows the impact
of legal institutions and legal ideology on the country's political development.
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The
Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880
by Iván Jaksic
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons
found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the
Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on
the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country’s identity
after Independence and the War 1812, a crucial time for the young republic,
and that they found inspiration in a most unlikely place: the seat of the
collapsing Spanish empire.
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Caribbean
Land and Development Revisited
Edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen
The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with
an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth,
Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development,
providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing
authors.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2007
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Debating
Cuban Exceptionalism
Edited by Laurence Whitehead and Bert Hoffman
This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the
Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics
covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and
an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as
well as between domestic and international forces.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2007.
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When was Latin America Modern?
Edited by Nicola Miller and Stephen Hart
Modernity has been a key issue for Latin Americans and Latin Americanists
for decades. Did Latin America come early or late to modernity? Was modernity
imposed from outside the region, or has it been reinvented from within?
Is modernity monolithic or multiple? The literature on the subject is rich,
but--like Latin American modernity itself is often said to be--it is also
fragmented, supplying contradictory answers to all these crucial questions.
When Was Latin America Modern? is the first work to bring scholars
from history, social science and cultural studies together in a fascinating
series of debates about what it has meant to be modern in Latin America.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan in March 2007.
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Vargas
and Brazil: New Perspectives
edited by Jens R. Hentschke
More than seventy-five years after Getúlio Vargas’s 1930 “Revolution”
and more than half a century after his suicide, politicians, scholars and
the Brazilian public still debate whether his era has actually come to an
end. Yet, as Brazil's leading news magazine Veja emphasized in
August 2004, Vargas’s enigma will not be deciphered through uncritical
studies and hagiographic novels, but through serious scholarly analyses.
Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives unites scholars from Brazil,
the US and Europe, who draw on a close re-reading of the literature, hitherto
unavailable or unused sources, and a wide array of methodologies, to shed
new light on the political changes and cultural representations of Vargas’s
regimes, thereby exploring why he meant so many different things to different
people.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2006.
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The
Judicialization of Politics in Latin America
edited by Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden and Alan Angell
This volume, published by Palgrave Macmillan, advances a comparative framework
for thinking about the nature of the judicialisation of politics in contemporary
Latin America and considers its positive and negative consequences for democracy.
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Cuba's
Military 1990-2005: Revolutionary Soldiers During Counter-Revolutionary
Times
by Hal Klepak
This book is the first examination of the Cuban military in the context
of Cuba's political and economic challenges in the aftermath of the collapse
of the USSR--and therefore of Soviet economic, political, and psychological
support. It does so by providing important historical and political contexts
of the development and engagement of the military. Published by Palgrave
Macmillan.
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Latin
America: A New Interpretation
by Laurence Whitehead
This innovative contribution to comparative area studies evaluates Latin
America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large regions' can be compared.
It examines topics such as state organization, the politics of expertise,
privatization, poverty and inequality, and citizenship insecurity, and generates
an overall new interpretation of Latin America's regional distinctiveness.
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Appropriation
as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina
by Arnd Schneider
This book makes a major contribution to the current debate on globalization,
and more precisely to the question of how the "traffic in culture"
is practiced, rationalised, and experienced by visual artists. The book
focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures
and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is
the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.
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America
and Enlightenment Constitutionalism
edited by Gary L. McDowell and Johnathan O'Neill
This book shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the US Constitution
and vividly analyses how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated
in the context of America. It is particularly successful in bringing out
the competing strains of Enlightenment thought and of articulating crucial
Enlightenment concepts of public opinion, equality, public reason, the relationship
between the legislature and the judiciary, revolution, law, and the people
in their American context. The collection is timely given contemporary debates
between conservatives and liberals about constitutional interpretation.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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