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  • Uneven Trajectories

    Latin American Societies in the Twenty-First Century

    by Gabriela Benza, Gabriel Kessler ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
    This Element presents the main characteristics of the current social structure in Latin America. It focuses on demographic trends, migration, families, incomes, education, health and housing, and examine the general policy trends for all of these issues. The main questions are: what is the social structure in Latin America like today? What changes have taken place in recent decades, particularly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • On Argentina and the Southern Cone

    Neoliberalism and National Imaginations

    by Alejandro Grimson, Gabriel Kessler ...
    Series series Global Realities
    This book considers how globalization is impacting contemporary Argentina-via regional trading blocs, through migrations across its borders, and through the emerging transnational border regions that it shares with other Latin American nations. Overshadowing all of these trends is the current crisis brought on by both international financial institutions possessing an increasing say over how the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Children Of The City

    At Work and at Play

    by David Nasaw ...
    The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of Cities

    Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

    by Daniel A. Bell, Avner de-Shalit ...
    A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, ... Read more

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  • The Hoods

    Crime and Punishment in Belfast

    by Heather Hamill ...
    A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to ... Read more

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  • A Chance to Win

    Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City

    by Jonathan Schuppe ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of America's most dangerous citiesWhen Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball, Mason decided ... Read more

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  • Cities and Economies

    by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

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  • Go-Go Live

    The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City

    by Natalie Hopkinson ...
    Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino band. Born in the inner city, amid the charred ruins of the 1968 race riots, go-go generated a ... Read more

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  • Talk with You Like a Woman

    African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935

    by Cheryl D. Hicks ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early-twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial uplift and reform programs of middle-class white and black activists to the experiences and perspectives of those whom they sought to protect and, ... Read more

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  • Mobility without Mayhem

    Safety, Cars, and Citizenship

    by Jeremy Packer ...
    While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it. Mobility without Mayhem is a lively cultural history of America’s fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Jeremy Packer analyzes how driving has been understood by experts, ... Read more

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  • Urban Encounters

    Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil

    by A. Cicalo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space. ... Read more

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  • Unions and the City

    Negotiating Urban Change

    Edited by Ian Thomas MacDonald ...
    Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces. As unions become more involved in the daily life of the city, they find themselves confronting the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD