In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. Published in conjunction with a new exhibition that revisits the region on the 60th anniversary of that important show, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 offers a complex overview of the positions, debates and architectur...(展开全部)

Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish and Portu...(展开全部)

Now thoroughly updated in its seventh edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of the region over the past 150 years. Modern Latin America, Seventh Edition, will continue to be an exceptional text for underg...(展开全部)

Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective examines processes of democratization in Latin America from 1900 to the present. Organized thematically, with a unique historical perspective, the book provides a widespread view of political transformation throughout the entire region. In clear and jargon-free prose, the book: * Traces the origins a...(展开全部)

In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politicians may believe that a competent state bureaucracy is intrinsic to the national ...(展开全部)

In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politicians may believe that a competent state bureaucracy is intrinsic to the national ...(展开全部)

Barbara Geddes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

It is hard to imagine today that the artistic value of color photography was once questioned and controversial, even as recently as the 1980s. William Eggleston's watershed exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1976, generated plenty of scorn and confusion, as spectators struggled to accept his seemingly ordinary-looking color images of Southern life as art. Earl...(展开全部)

It is hard to imagine today that the artistic value of color photography was once questioned and controversial, even as recently as the 1980s. William Eggleston's watershed exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1976, generated plenty of scorn and confusion, as spectators struggled to accept his seemingly ordinary-looking color images of Southern life as art. Earl...(展开全部)

【美】托马斯·E.斯基德莫尔是美国布朗大学拉美现代史教授和该校拉美研究中心前任主任； 【美】彼得•H.史密斯则是美国加州大学圣迭戈分校的政治学教授和该校伊比利亚和拉美研究中心的前任主任； 【美】詹姆斯·N.格林则是美国布朗大学拉美研究中心的前任主任和巴西研究会的前主席。 张森根，1937年12月生于上海市。中国社科院拉丁美洲研究所研究员，中国社科院研究生院拉美系主任、博士生导师。常年从事拉美经济和拉美经济史研究。主要论著和译著有：《战后拉美地区经济结构的变化和特点》（1981年）、《小农制和拉美农业资本主义发展》（1988年）和《拉丁美洲历史词典》（合编，1993年）以及中文版《剑桥拉美史》（项目主持人兼校订者之一，1991—2013年共出10卷11册）。 岳云霞，中国社会科学院拉丁美洲研究所研究员，主要研究方向为拉美经济、贸易和投资。主要代表作包括...(展开全部)