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Americas : new interpretive essays

Title
Americas : new interpretive essays / edited by Alfred Stepan.
Publication
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors
Stepan, Alfred C.
Description
x, 327 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-
  • Latin America > Social conditions
  • Latin America > Economic conditions
Note
  • This book was developed for the ... Americas television course"--Prelim. p. v.
  • "Americas is a coproduction of WGBH Boston and Central Television Enterprises for Channel 4, U.K., in association with the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, and Tufts University."
  • "Americas: new interpretive essays is part of a college credit course from the Annenberg/CPB Collection."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The state of sovereignty and the sovereignty of states / Franklin W. Knight -- The state and development in historical perspective / Peter H. Smith -- The great depression of the 1980s and the future of the Latin American State / Albert Fishlow -- The state of revolution / Margaret E. Crahan and Peter H. Smith -- Production, reproduction, and the polity : women's strategic and practical gender issues / Helen I. Safa and Cornelia Butler Flora -- The construction of a Latin America feminist identity / Marysa Navarro-Aranguren -- Religion : reconstituting Church and pursuing change / / Margaret E. Crahan -- Remapping culture / Jean Franco -- Transforming memories and histories / Kay Barbara Warren -- Race, color, and class in the Caribbean / Anthony P. Maingot -- Continent on the move : immigrants and refugeees in the Americas / M. Patricia Fernández Kelly and Alejandro Portes -- The Americans : Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the United States.
ISBN
  • 0195077946 (alk. paper)
  • 0195077954 (pbk.)
LCCN
92015716
OCLC
  • 25833126
  • ocm25833126
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries