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Party, Process, And Political Change In Congress, Volume 1 - New Perspectives On The History Of Congress

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 This book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress.
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Social Change, Industrialization, And The Service Economy In Sao Paulo, 1950-2020

by Francisco Vidal Luna e Herbert S. Klein

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 <p>In the 1950s-80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "developing" countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo''s relative importance in the country''s industrial product. This volume draws on social, economic, and demographic data to document the accelerated industrialization of the state and its subsequent shift to a service economy amidst worsening social and economic inequality.</p><p>Through its cultural institutions, universities, banking, and corporate sectors, the municipality of São Paulo would become a world metropolis. At the same time, given its rapid growth from 2 million to 12 million residents in this period, São Paulo dealt with problems of distribution, housing, and governance. This significant volume elucidates these and other trends during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and will be an invaluable reference for scholars of history, policy, and the economy in Latin America.</p>
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Economic And Demographic History Of Sao Paulo, 1850-1950

by Francisco Vidal Luna e Herbert S. Klein

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 This comprehensive history of the population and economy of the state of Sao Paulo in its century of rapid growth examines how the state transformed from a frontier province of little importance to one of the most important agricultural and industrial regions of the world.
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Staying Afloat - Risk And Uncertainty In Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820

by Jeremy Baskes

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 This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty.
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Native Capital - Financial Institutions And Economic Development In São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920

by Anne G. Hanley

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 This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during an era of economic diversification. It assesses their contribution to that diversification, and argues that they played an important role in Sao Paulo's urbanization and industrialization by the start of the twentieth century.
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Measuring Up - A History Of Living Standards In Mexico, 1850-1950

by Moramay Lopez-Alonso

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 Measuring Up uses new research tools and an interdisciplinary approach to provide the most in-depth analysis to date of role that governmental policies played in shaping levels of poverty, malnutrition, and inequality in Mexico between 1850 and 1950.
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Continuity Despite Change - The Politics Of Labor Regulation In Latin America

by Matthew E. Carnes

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 This book explains how skill-driven economic constraints and unions' organizational power have produced long-term continuity in diverse national-level labor codes in Latin America, even in the face of significant efforts at reform by political leaders.
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Between Tyranny And Anarchy - A History Of Democracy In Latin America, 1800-2006

by Paul W. Drake

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 Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries.
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Philip Selznick - Ideals In The World

by Martin Krygier

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 This, the first comprehensive account of Philip Selznick's writings on many of the major issues in social science and public policy, explores his particular subjects and ideas, his overarching preoccupation with the conditions that frustrate and favor attainment of ideals, and the specific texture and character of his distinctive moral-intellectual outlook.
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Social Change, Industrialization, And The Service Economy In Sao Paulo, 1950-2020

by Francisco Vidal Luna e Herbert S. Klein

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Jazz As Critique - Adorno And Black Expression Revisited

by Fumi Okiji

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 Bringing critical theory to bear on music, this book argues that the jazz form models progressive social relations through its foregrounding of a "communal self," an African-American subjectivity that demands recognition of black humanity and alterity.
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An Economic And Demographic History Of Sao Paulo, 1850-1950

by Francisco Vidal Luna e Herbert S. Klein

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 This comprehensive history of the population and economy of the state of Sao Paulo in its century of rapid growth examines how the state transformed from a frontier province of little importance to one of the most important agricultural and industrial regions of the world.
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Order Against Progress - Government, Foreign Investment, And Railroads In Brazil, 1854-1913

by William R. Summerhill

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 This study presents a new and provocative picture of the impact of railroads on the Brazilian economy. How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by applying the methods of the "new economic history" to the study of Brazilian railway development.
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Testaments Of Toluca

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 Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. This work presents Nahuatl wills from 1652 to 1783 from an important valley, thus enlarging our perspective on the evolution of indigenous society and culture in central Mexico.
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Bearing Arms For His Majesty - The Free-Colored Militia In Colonial Mexico

by Ben, Iii Vinson

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 This study uses the participation of free-colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militia as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial categorization, and issues of social mobility for racially stigmatized groups in colonial Mexico.
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The Quest For Just And Pure Law - Rocky Mountain Workers And American Social Democracy, 1870-1924

by John P. Enyeart

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 Focusing on the political culture forged by Rocky Mountain workers from the 1870s through the 1920s, this book shows how the unique working-class politics of the region led to remarkable successes in securing progressive labor legislation.
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The Women'S West

by Elizabeth Jameson e Susan Armitage

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The Comanches - Lords Of The South Plains

by E. Adamson Hoebel e Ernest Wallace

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Constructing Cassandra - Reframing Intelligence Failure At The Cia, 1947â€“2001

by Milo Jones e Philippe Silberzahn

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 This book is an inquiry into the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four critical strategic surprises experienced by the US over a fifty-year period which still play out today.
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Industrial Development In A Frontier Economy - The Industrialization Of Argentina, 1890â€“1930

by Yovanna Pineda

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 Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy is pioneering microanalysis of 59 Argentinean corporations between 1890 and 1930 that explains Argentina's failure to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances successfully modernized.
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Romanticism And The Rise Of English

by Andrew Elfenbein

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 Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language.
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James Madison - The Theory And Practice Of Republican Government

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 This work evaluates the legacy of James Madison as the product of a scholarly politician - a politician who thought carefully about institutions in the context of action. It brings together thoughtful responses to Madison and his theory from a broad cross-section of modern political science.
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The World Upside Down - Cross-Cultural Contact And Conflict In Sixteenth-Century Peru

by Susan Elizabeth Ramirez

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 Taking the perspective of native Americans, this work aims to explain some of the general principles on which pre-Hispanic Andeans lives were based. It also describes how the imposed Spanish colonial system altered the organization and belief systems of the native inhabitants of northern Peru.
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An Anticlassical Political-Economic Analysis - A Vision For The Next Century

by Yasusuke Murakami

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 In his final work, Murakami confronts three crucial questions: How and in what form can a harmonious and stable post-cold-war world order be created? How can the world maintain the necessary economic performance while minimizing conflicts and environmental deterioration? What must be done to safeguard the freedoms of all peoples?
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