[PDF] Area Study Lands Of Latin America eBook

Author : Nancy Bostick
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Latin America
ISBN :

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Discusses the geography, history, customs, people, economics, and government of Latin America and briefly examines the origins of United States' interest in Latin American countries.

Author : Educational Research Council of America. Social Science Staff
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Latin America
ISBN :

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Discusses the geography, history, customs, people, economics, and government of Latin America and briefly examines the origins of United States' interest in Latin American countries.

Author : Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780131816497

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Latin America, physical geography -- Latin America, shaped by its history -- Cultures of Latin America -- Mexico and Central America -- The Caribbean -- South America -- Reference section: DK atlas; Glossary of geographic terms; Gazetteer; Glossary.

Author : Michael K. McCall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030822222

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The vision of this book is to bring together examples of grounded geographic research carried out in Latin America regarding territorial processes. These encompass a range of histories, processes, strategies and mechanisms, with case studies from ten countries and many regions: struggles to reclaim indigenous lands, conflicts over land/resource/environmental services, competing land claims, urban territorial identities, state power strategies, commercial involvements and others. The case studies included in the book represent a wide diversity of theoretical and methodological framings currently deployed in Latin America to help interpret the patterns and processes through the conceptual lenses of territory, territoriality and territorialization. Interrogating the meanings of territory introduces multiple spatial, socio-cultural and political concepts including space, place and landscape, power, control and governance, and identity and gender.

Author : Stephen Baranyi
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Land reform
ISBN : 1896770673

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Co-published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Author : Edith Clowes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1609091876

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This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II, area studies have proven indispensable to American integration in the world. They serve two main purposes: to equip future experts with rich cultural-historical and political-economic knowledge of a world area in its global context and advanced foreign language proficiency, and to provide interested readers with well-founded analyses of a vast array of the world's communities. Area Studies in the Global Age examines the interrelation between three constructions central to any culture—community, place, and identity—and builds on research by scholars specializing in diverse world areas, including Africa; Central, East, and North Asia; Eastern and East Central Europe; and Latin America. In contrast to sometimes oversimplified, globalized thinking, the studies featured here argue for the importance of understanding particular human experience and the actual effects of global changes on real people's lives. The rituals, narratives, symbols, and archetypes that define a community, as well as the spaces to which communities attach meaning, are crucial to members' self-perception and sense of agency. Editors Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg have put into practice the original mission of US area studies, which were intended to employ both social science and humanities research methods. This important study presents and applies a variety of methodologies, including interviews and surveys; the construction of databases; the analysis of public rituals and symbols; the examination of archival documents as well as contemporary public commentary; and the close reading and interpretation of fiction, art, buildings, cities, and other creatively produced works in their social contexts. Designed for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in allied disciplines, Clowes and Bromberg's volume will also appeal to readers interested in internationally focused humanities and social sciences.

Author : Robert B. Kent
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1462525520

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Popular among students for its engaging, accessible style, this text provides an authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography as well as its regional complexity. Extensively revised to reflect the region's ongoing evolution in the first decades of the 21st century, the second edition's alternating thematic and regional chapters trace Latin America's historical development while revealing the diversity of its people and places. Coverage encompasses cultural history, environment and physical geography, urban development, agriculture and land use, social and economic processes, and the contemporary patterns of the Latin American diaspora. Pedagogical features include vivid topical vignettes, end-of-chapter recommended readings and other resources, and 217 photographs, maps, and figures. New to This Edition *Discussions of climate change and its impacts, the demise of the Monroe doctrine, neoliberal agriculture, the growing influence of Chinese investment, and other new topics. *13 new vignettes highlighting current issues such as the thaw in United States-Cuba relations, drug violence in Mexico, aerial gondolas in the Andes, and the first Latin pope. *Annotated website and film recommendations for most chapters. *The latest development trends, population and economic data, and current events of local and global significance. *26 new photographs, maps, and figures.