Belize S Independence And Decolonization In Latin America

Author : A. Shoman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230106482

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Belize’s Independence and Decolonization in Latin America by A. Shoman Pdf

Belize, a small British colony in Central America faced with a territorial claim and military threats from neighboring Guatemala, overcame disadvantages of size and power by implementing a strategy of internationalization that utilized new international norms and international organizations, in particular the Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations. This book, written by a key player in the independence struggle, details the history of the territorial claim and of the international campaign that made it possible for Belize to achieve secure independence with all its territory despite pressures from Britain and the United States to cede land and compromise its sovereignty.

Author : Barbara Bulmer-Thomas,V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Belize
ISBN : 9768161396

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The Economic History of Belize by Barbara Bulmer-Thomas,V. Bulmer-Thomas Pdf

Author : Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781610692489

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Capital Cities around the World by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky Pdf

This informative resource is a fascinating compilation of the history, politics, and culture of every capital city from around the world, making this the only singular reference on the subject of its kind. Every country, even the world's youngest nations, has a capital city—a centralized location which houses the seat of government and acts as the hub of culture and history. But, what role do capital cities play in the global arena? Which factors have influenced the selection of a municipal center for each nation? This interesting encyclopedia explores the topic in great depth, providing an overview of each country's capital—its history and early inhabitants, ascension to prominence, infrastructure within the government, and influence on the world around them. The author considers the culture and society of the area, discussing the ethnic and religious groups among those who live there, the major issues the residents face, and other interesting cultural facts. Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture features the capital cities of 200 countries across the globe. Organized in alphabetical order by country, each profile combines social studies, geography, anthropology, world history, and political science to offer a fascinating survey of each location.

Author : Sally-Ann Treharne
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748686070

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Reagan and Thatcher's Special Relationship by Sally-Ann Treharne Pdf

Drawing on recently declassified documents and elite interviews with key protagonists that reveal candid recollections, Sally-Ann Treharne highlights the pivotal moments in Reagan and Thatcher's shared history from a new vantage point.

Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 5375 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781544384733

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Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021 by Tom Lansford Pdf

The Political Handbook of the World by Tom Lansford provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information, with more in-depth coverage of current political controversies than any other reference guide. The updated 2020-2021 edition will continue to be the most authoritative source for finding complete facts and analysis on each country′s governmental and political makeup. Compiling in one place more than 200 entries on countries and territories throughout the world, this volume is renowned for its extensive coverage of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system. The Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021 also provides names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus detailed profiles of more than 30 intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies. And this update will aim to include coverage of current events, issues, crises, and controversies from the course of the last two years.

Author : Laurie Kroshus Medina
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978837768

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Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize by Laurie Kroshus Medina Pdf

Confronting a debt crisis, the Belizean government has strategized to maximize revenues from lands designated as state property, privatizing lands for cash crop production and granting concessions for timber and oil extraction. Meanwhile, conservation NGOs have lobbied to establish protected areas on these lands to address a global biodiversity crisis. They promoted ecotourism as a market-based mechanism to fund both conservation and debt repayment; ecotourism also became a mechanism for governing lands and people—even state actors themselves—through the market. Mopan and Q’eqchi’ Maya communities, dispossessed of lands and livelihoods through these efforts, pursued claims for Indigenous rights to their traditional lands through Inter-American and Belizean judicial systems. This book examines the interplay of conflicting forms of governance that emerged as these strategies intersected: state performances of sovereignty over lands and people, neoliberal rule through the market, and Indigenous rights-claiming, which challenged both market logics and practices of sovereignty.

Author : Hannes Warnecke-Berger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319897820

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Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean by Hannes Warnecke-Berger Pdf

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research. It combines the Caribbean and Central America into a single comparative research that explores the historical (from the conquista onwards) as well as contemporary causes of violence in these societies. The volume focuses on forms of violence such as gang violence, police violence, every day forms of violence, vigilantism, and organized crime. The analysis provides a theoretical perspective that bridges political economy as well as cultural approaches in violence research. As such, it will be of interest to readers studying development, violence, political, Central American, and Caribbean studies.

Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 1965 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781506327150

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Political Handbook of the World 2016-2017 by Tom Lansford Pdf

Published since 1928, the Political Handbook of the World provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information with more in-depth coverage of current political controversies and political parties than any other reference guide. The updated 2016–2017 Edition continues this legacy as the most authoritative source for finding complete facts and analysis on each country’s governmental and political makeup. Political science and international relations scholars have revised this edition, and made understanding complex foreign affairs andpolitical situations easy and accessible. With more than 200 entries on countries and territories throughout the world, housed in one place, these volumes are renowned for their extensive coverage of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system. They also provide names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus detailed profiles of more than 30 intergovernmental organizations and United Nations agencies. This comprehensive update will include coverage of current events, issues, crises, and controversies from the course of the last two years, including: The closely-watched U.S. presidential election The effect of the Brexit referendum and installment of a new British prime minister The extensive investigation and subsequent impeachment of Brazil’s president The far-reaching impact of the “Panama Papers” scandal Changes in U.S.–Cuba diplomatic relations and the reopening of their embassies The unconstitutional declaration of Gambia as an Islamic State Sentiments about the migrant and refugee crisis across Europe and the influence on policy Also, the new “For Further Reference” feature included for every country entry directs readers to additional resources to continue their research.

Author : V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521145602

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The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars by V. Bulmer-Thomas Pdf

Examines the economic history of the Caribbean, and is the first analysis to span the whole region.

Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 2257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781071853078

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Political Handbook of the World 2022-2023 by Tom Lansford Pdf

The Political Handbook of the World 2022-2023 provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information, with more in-depth coverage of current political controversies than any other reference guide. The updated 2022-2023 edition continues to be the most authoritative source for finding complete facts and analysis on each country′s governmental and political makeup. Tom Lansford has compiled in one place more than 200 entries on countries and territories throughout the world, this volume is renowned for its extensive coverage of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system. It also provides names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus detailed profiles of more than 30 intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies. And this update will aim to include coverage of current events, issues, crises, and controversies from the course of the last two years.

Author : Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350162730

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The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz Pdf

The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity examines the social, cultural, and political processes that shape the experience of taste. The book positions flavor as involving all the senses, and describes the multiple ways in which taste becomes tied to local, translocal, glocal, and cosmopolitan politics of identity. Global case studies are included from Japan, China, India, Belize, Chile, Guatemala, the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Spain. Chapters examine local responses to industrialized food and the heritage industry, and look at how professional culinary practice has become foundational for local identities. The book also discusses the unfolding construction of “local taste” in the context of sociocultural developments, and addresses how cultural political divides are created between meat consumption and vegetarianism, innovation and tradition, heritage and social class, popular food and authenticity, and street and restaurant food. In addition, contributors discuss how different food products-such as kimchi, quinoa, and Soylent-have entered the international market of industrial and heritage foods, connecting different places and shaping taste and political identities.

Author : A. Pearce
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137362247

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The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700-1763 by A. Pearce Pdf

Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history.

Author : Carrie Gibson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802192356

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Empire's Crossroads by Carrie Gibson Pdf

A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer). Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson offers a panoramic view of the region from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries. These fraught years gave way to a booming age of sugar, horrendous slavery, and extravagant wealth, as well as the Haitian Revolution and the long struggles for independence that ushered in the modern era. Gibson tells not only of imperial expansion—European and American—but also of life as it is lived in the islands, from before Columbus through the tumultuous twentieth century. Told “in fluid, colorful prose peppered with telling anecdotes,” Empire’s Crossroads provides an essential account of five centuries of history (Foreign Affairs). “Judicious, readable and extremely well-informed . . . Too many people know the Caribbean only as a tourist destination; [Gibson] takes us, instead, into its fascinating, complex and often tragic past. No vacation there will ever feel quite the same again.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars and King Leopold’s Ghost

Author : Assad Shoman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Belize
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001839400

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13 chapters of a history of Belize by Assad Shoman Pdf

Author : Sebastian Huhn,Hannes Warnecke-Berger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349950676

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Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America by Sebastian Huhn,Hannes Warnecke-Berger Pdf

This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of crime is as present as the increase of private security, the re-militarization of law enforcement, political populism, and mano dura policies. The contributors to this volume discuss historical forms, paths, continuities, and changes of violence and its public and political discussion in the region. This book thus offers in-depth analysis of different patterns of violence, their reproduction over time, their articulation in the present, and finally their discursive mobilization.