EU studies increasingly recognize the salience of new regional insights. Hence, this collection of original essays provides a broad overview of regionalism, together with detailed analyses on the construction, activities, and implications of both established and emerging example…
Reviews important developments related to the internationalization of financial issues and their implications for the economic growth and development of nations since 1970. The book contains 22 essays grouped under six headings: Part I: The Scope of the Volume; Part II: The Maas…
The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of feminism in Latin America. This study argues that property ownership is directly related to women's bargaining power within the household and community and points out changes resulting from gender-progres…
"Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place. This book gives a unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date view of Latin American economic development over the two centuri…
"Much current writing about agrarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations such as debt bondage are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. Here it is argued that the incidence of bonded labour is much greater than gene…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Despite the fact that countries transitioned to democracy, many citizens residing in peripheral regions continue to live under undemocratic rule. Democrats and Autocrats studies the existence of subnational undemocratic regimes (SURs) alongside natio…
"This collection of original articles and essays examines popular culture, literature, theatre, belief systems, indigenous practices and questions of identity, exile and alienation." "The interconnectedness and distinction of cultural production throughout the Americas, "transpl…
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