Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico
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The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an...
Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa
Toyin Falola and Bessie House-Soremekun
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Few studies of globalization have analyzed its impact on African societies from the viewpoint of...
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005
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Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent...
Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
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Winner, Ray Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular and American Culture,...
Wicked Cinema: Sex and Religion on Screen
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From struggles over identity politics in the 1990s to current concerns about a clash of...
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
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From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American...
Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia
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As a "wild," drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi's...
Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia
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Winner, Brazil Section Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2016 The opening of the...
The Albatross and the Fish: Linked Lives in the Open Seas
Robin W. Doughty and Virginia Carmichael
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Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast...
The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
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What's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue...