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Fernando Coronil
In 1935 Venezuela consolidated its position as the world’s major oil exporter, establishing South America’s longest-lasting democratic regime. This text examines key transformations in Venezuela’s polity, culture and economy, recasting…
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This posthumously published collection of Fernando Coronil’s most important work highlights his deep concern with the global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory…
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The four authors in this collection read images as texts to be analyzed in the context of their production and circulation
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El Estado magico es un estudio de continuidades. A contrapelo de la bibliografia convencional, analiza la trayectoria lineal del rentismo venezolano del siglo XX, desde la constitucion del petro-Estado, durante…
States of Violence, this collection of essays recasts understandings of the role of violence in the formation of the modern world.
While Fernando Ortiz’s contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar…
A volume at the crossroads of History and Anthropology
Is Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chavez truly revolutionary? Some see the president as a shining knight of socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. But the…
