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Keepers of the City
The corregidores were Castilian royal officials who functioned as mayors and superior judges in the provinces, cities, towns, and villages they were sent to oversee. At the head of …
Latin American Economic Outlook 2021 Working Together for a Better Recovery
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2021: Working Together for a Better Recovery aims to analyse and provide policy recommendations for a strong, inclusive and environmentally …
Sport and Society in Latin America
A very exciting collection that explores sport in itself and also as a cultural phenomenon. In unexpected ways, bicycles are linked to modernization in Mexico, baseball takes on …
Writing the Cappella Gregoriana: Architecture and Ekphrasis in the First Baroque Chapel
This volume publishes for the first time Lorenzo Frizolio's Sacellum Gregorianum (Rome, 1582), Ascanio Valentino's Sacellum Gregorianum (Rome, 1583) and Robert Turner's Panegyrici …
Life and Literature of the Pampas: Latin American Monographs, No. 13
Education and other modes of thinking in Latin America
After long periods of military dictatorships, civil wars, and economic instability, Latin America has changed face, and become the foremost region for counter-hegemonic processes. …
Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America
With contributions from nearly 50 researchers across Latin America, The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Unleashing a millennial potential contains the most …
A Concise Introduction to Latin American Politics and Development
This succinct overview of the political factors that condition social and economic development in Latin America is the perfect core text in courses on politics, government, social …
Environmental Politics in Latin America
Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources. Consequently, …
Drawing the Line
Recent international interest in the painters of the Mexican mural movement, such as Rivera and Orozco, has brought Latin American art to a wider audience than ever before but has …
Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre
Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre is a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative theatre practitioners in the Americas, all of whom have …
Sports Culture in Latin American History
Perhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion, identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a …