Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes: A Journal of Decolonization, State Formation and Democratization 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Clarke, Colin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319771698 ISBN-13: 9783319771694 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $75.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American - Social Science | Regional Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 304.2 |
Series: Studies of the Americas |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.07 lbs) 261 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism. |