Latin America Books

New and Published Books

1. Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform

   Lessons from Brazil

   By George Meszaros

   Series: Law, Development and Globalization

   Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world. Taking Brazil as an example, it unpicks the...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. Latin American Development

   By Julie Cupples

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   Latin America’s diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and as a place in which the global debt crisis has had some of its most lasting and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Low Carbon Development

   Key Issues

   Edited by Frauke Urban, Johan Nordensvärd

   Series: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

   Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Latin America and Contemporary Modernity

   A Sociological Interpretation

   By José Maurício Domingues

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In this book, renowned author José Maurício Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilization and offers a general theoretical approach to contemporary Latin America. He sees modernity as configured by episodic modernizing moves which, when counting on strong...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Political Economy of Latin America

   Reflections on Neoliberalism and Development

   By Peter Kingstone

   Neoliberalism has been at the centre of enormous controversy since its first appearance in Latin America in the early 1970s. Even neoliberalism’s strongest supporters concede that it has not lived up to its promises and that growth, poverty, and inequality all have performed considerably worse than...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
6. Leftovers

   Tales of the Latin American Left

   Edited by Jorge G. Castañeda, Marco A. Morales

   Over a decade ago, Jorge Castañeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American left’s fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American...

   Published July 6th 2008 by Routledge
7. Latin America Transformed

   Globalization and Modernity, 2nd Edition

   By Robert N Gwynne, Kay Cristobal

   Praise for the first edition:'Accomplishes its task to provide readers with a broad multi-disciplinary view on globalization's many impacts on Latin America ... the organization of the collection is logical and thoughtful, and the structural perspectives offered are convincing and powerful. I...

   Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge