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Presents an overview of the development of sports in Latin America. This book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political, economic, and social life of the region and the repercussions of its role. It includes articles on basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, soccer, and equestrian events in Latin America.

The Indians in Latin America make an effort to claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process.

When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early conquerors of the New World rapidly established themselves as urban lords.

Reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior.

How has mass communication evolved in Latin America? How has the political climate in that region shaped the role of the mass media? What factors unite these many diverse countries? What are the special challenges facing this turbulent area?

Events such as the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement have made it imperative for students to grasp the history and possible directions of Latin American political change. This title gives readers both the background and the analytical models necessary for an accurate understanding of this area.

From the arrival of Hispanicized Africans during the Age of Discovery to the renewal of racial identities, the history of Africans in Latin America has been complex, their contributions numerous. This work selects topics through which to study the African dimension of Latin America, including the colonial era, religion, music, and intermarriage.

Collects twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' this work regards frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures.

The US-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America have interacted with the greatest intensity. This work addresses the protracted conflict rooted in the vast difference in power between Mexico and its northern neighbor. Each of the seven parts explores a key issue in borderlands studies.

Assembles essays that provide the historical context necessary to understand the Latin American military. This work includes articles that examine a variety of time periods and nations, from the counterinsurgency army of New Spain, to the nineteenth-century War of the Pacific, to the modern relationship between the military and development.

Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region's political, economic, and domestic spheres. This volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have shaped-and have been shaped by-the traditional practices and ideologies of their cultures.

Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American Indians have displayed remarkable resilience. This book examines Indian-Western relationships from the Spaniards' initial contact with the Incas to the cultural interplay of Latin America.

Latin America has long been strongly identified with the Roman Catholic Church. Yet the face of religion has changed in the region, as is evidenced by various landmarks that appear on the social and geographic landscape.

This text provides an examination of the cultural development of colonial Latin America, using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual material, including photographs, drawings and paintings. The illustrations are intended to offer avenues to discussion topics.

Explores the Catholic Church's social and political influence in Latin America. This collection of essays presents an analytic and descriptive history of the Church and its development during the colonial period. It is suitable for courses in the colonial period in Latin American history.

A collection of essays and articles that show how Latin Americans travels and residency abroad helped them re-examine their own origins and perceptions of their homeland.

Examines various aspects of guerrilla warfare in Latin America.

Examines various aspects of guerrilla warfare in Latin America.

This volume of readings examines the revolutions, civil wars, guerrilla struggles, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, and interventions of this period. Offering a solid perspective on the Independence period, The Wars of Independence is an excellent text for Latin American survey courses and courses focusing on the colonial era.

Argues that a history of drugs is a study of cultures in competition.

Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American Indians have displayed remarkable resilience. This book examines Indian-Western relationships from the Spaniards' initial contact with the Incas to the cultural interplay of Latin America.