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STUDIES OF THE AMERICAS

As part of its commitment to promoting research on the Americas, the Institute is pleased to house the Palgrave Macmillan series Studies of the Americas, under the editorship of Professor Maxine Molyneux.

Titles in the Studies of the Americas Series include cross-disciplinary and comparative research on the US, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, particularly in the areas of politics, economics, history, anthropology, sociology, development, gender, social policy and the environment.

The series includes edited collections, which allows an exploration of a topic from several different disciplinary angles by eminent scholars; book-length studies providing a deeper focus on a single topic; and readers on specific themes.

Information on recent and forthcoming publications can be found below.

Proposals for consideration are welcomed and should be sent to m.molyneux@ucl.ac.uk

Guidance for authors on the preparation of a proposal is set out on the Palgrave website

	Politics and Power in Haiti Quinn, Kate, Sutton, Paul Examining the political legacies of the Duvalier period and after, and revisiting the work of the late David Nicholls, Politics and Power in Haiti provides some of the keys to understanding the turbulent world of Haitian politics and the persistent challenges at home and from abroad which have distorted Haiti’s development.
	Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru Wilson, Fiona Exploring how restrictions on citizenship helped create conditions for political violence in Peru, this book recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean town were persistently overruled, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the state and political centralism in Peru.
	New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance Haarstad, Håvard Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical insight into states' and communities' relations to natural resource sectors, and show how resource dependencies continue to shape their political spaces.
	Latin America Whitehead, Laurence The overwhelming impact of Europe followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform. This book explores the resulting patterns that can be observed in multiple domains, through the optic of a 'mausoleum of modernity.'
	Raúl Castro and Cuba Klepak, Hal This book tells the story of the military life of Raúl Castro, an impressive military commander and highly original thinker who is also the longest-serving minister of defense of any country in recent times.
	Mexico's Struggle for Public Security Philip, George; Berruecos, Susana The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results. This book considers the issue from a variety of viewpoints. The essential argument is that the organized crime is best combated by institutional reforms directed at strengthening the rule of law rather than by a heavy reliance on armed force.
	Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina Sánchez Román, José Antonio This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the collapse of the progressive tax system.
	The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela Brown, Matthew A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial rule.
	The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 Jaksic, Iván This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after Independence and the War of 1812.
	Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts Pratt, Stephanie; Carocci, Max Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived experience associated with the facts of slavery.
	Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans McIlwaine, Cathy This book aims to address this neglect in the European context with concentration on the UK case. Conceptually, it explores the meanings of diaspora and whether this is an appropriate concept to refer to Latin American migration to Europe in particular.
	History and Language in the Andes Pearce, Adrian; Heggarty, Paul, This book gathers ground-breaking, explicitly inter-disciplinary essays examining the Andean past, including history, languages, anthropology, and ethnohistory.
	The Origins of Mercosur Gardini, Gian Luca This book is a study of the processes of democratization and regionalization in the Southern Cone of Latin America, which ran roughly parallel to one another between 1985 and 1991.
	Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas Arashiro, Zuleika The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003.
	The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America Angell, Alan; Schjolden, Line; Sieder, Rachel This collection of essays analyzes the diverse manifestations of the judicialization of politics in contemporary Latin America, assessing their positive and negative consequences for state-society relations, the rule of law, and democratic governance in the region.
	The Nitrate King Edmundson, William William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the first biography of a controversial but compelling figure.
	Post-Colonial Trinidad Clarke, Colin; Clarke, Gillian This journal, originally kept as part of a study of race and ethnic relations in Trinidad, records daily field experiences where the observers/researchers were engaged in participant observation.
	Belize's Independence and Decolonization in Latin America Shoman, Assad This book provides an account of Belize's struggle for independence in the face of Guatemala's territorial claim, written by a key player in the independence struggle.
	Youth Violence in Latin America Jones, Gareth A.; Rodgers, Dennis This volume provides a systematic overview of the contemporary Latin American youth violence phenomenon. The authors focus specifically on youth gangs, juvenile justice issues, and applied research concerns, providing a rounded and balanced exploration of this increasingly important topic.
	Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies Read, Justin As the world becomes increasingly globalized, the integration of cultures within nations has become more and more relevant. Read takes a poetic approach to the concept of cultural conflict within nations and adds a new perspective that has rarely been seen in debate.
	Governance after Neoliberalism in Latin America Grugel, Jean; Riggirozzi, Pía Two decades of neoliberalism in Latin America have left legacies of uneven growth, inequity and lackluster democracy. This book offers an original and grounded discussion of what governance after neoliberalism means in Latin America and examines how states are pursuing more independent development strategies and models of democracy.
	Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America Haddu, Miriam; Page, Joanna This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production, distribution and marketing.
	Cuban Medical Internationalism Kirk, John M.; Erisman, H. Michael This book, the result of four years of research, provides an updated analysis of Cuba's extraordinary record in public health.
	Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940-1967 High, Steven This book examines the social, economic and political aftermath of the famous Anglo-American 'destroyers-for-bases' deal of 2nd September 1940 that saw fifty obsolete U.S. destroyers exchanged for 'base colonies' in Trinidad, Bermuda, Newfoundland and the Bahamas.
	Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? Burdick, John; Oxhorn, Philip; Roberts, Kenneth M While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans are struggling to articulate a future in which neoliberalism is reconfigured.
	Wellbeing and Development in Peru Copestake, James This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict.
	The Federal Nation Morgan, Iwan W; Davies, Philip J This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant shifts in US federalism in relation to social and socioeconomic issues.
	Ronald Reagan and the 1980s Hudson, Cheryl; Davies, Gareth By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American president - Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to his political and cultural triumphs and assess his legacy.
	The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego; Shadlen, Kenneth C Benefiting from a truly Pan-American perspective, these essays evaluate the economics and politics of the new patterns of North-South integration in the particular context of the Americas, questioning if regional and bilateral trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA or the FTAA are appropriate mechanisms to promote economic development.
	Reinventing Modernity in Latin America Miller, Nicola This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.
	The Republican Party and Immigration Politics Wroe, Andrew This book examines the 1990s backlash against illegal immigrants. Wroe explains why many Americans turned against immigration, looking at the origins of California's Proposition 187 and its wider political implications.
	The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture King, John In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s.
	Small States in Global Affairs Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne This book updates the 1989 volume 'Caribbean in World Affairs' providing a comprehensive and theoretically-grounded account of diplomatic developments in the Caribbean. The new material includes attention to the changed global setting, updated theoretical developments in foreign policy, and the inclusion of Haiti and Suriname.
	Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico Butler, Matthew While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion.