Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe`s Hemisphere to Petroleum`s Empire, Judith Ewell

Автор: Loveman Brian
Название: No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere Since 1776
ISBN: 0807872652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807872659
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Описание: Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, <i>No Higher Law</i> is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America from independence to the present. From the nation's earliest days, argues Brian Loveman, U.S. leaders viewed and treated Latin America as a crucible in which to test foreign policy and from which to expand American global influence. Loveman demonstrates how the main doctrines and policies adopted for the Western Hemisphere were exported, with modifications, to other world regions as the United States pursued its self-defined global mission.<BR><BR><i>No Higher Law</i> reveals the interplay of domestic politics and international circumstances that shaped key American foreign policies from U.S. independence to the first decade of the twenty-first century. This revisionist view considers the impact of slavery, racism, ethnic cleansing against Native Americans, debates on immigration, trade and tariffs, the historical growth of the military-industrial complex, and political corruption as critical dimensions of American politics and foreign policy.<BR><BR>Concluding with an epilogue on the Obama administration, Loveman weaves together the complex history of U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy to achieve a broader historical understanding of American expansionism, militarism, imperialism, and global ambitions as well as novel insights into the challenges facing American policymakers at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Автор: Di John Jonathan
Название: From Windfall to Curse?: Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present
ISBN: 0271035544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271035543
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Описание: Examines the political economy of growth in Venezuela since the discovery of oil in 1920.

Автор: de Oviedo y. Banos Jose
Название: The Conquest and Settlement of Venezuela
ISBN: 0520301358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520301351
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Описание: This classic in the literature of the European exploration and settlement of the New World has never until now been available in the English language. Its author, born in 1671, was descended from a noble Spanish family and was a learned and influential member of Caracas society. His Historia de la conquista y poblacion de la provincia de Venezuela is widely regarded as a literary masterpiece and a major historical work. It has been read and acclaimed throughout the world. Jeannette Varner's sensitive translation will be welcomed by English-speaking Latin Americanists everywhere. The work is an accurate and absorbing narration of the early history of Venezuela, from Christopher Columbus's arrival on August 1, 1498, on his third voyage to the New World, until its sack by the British corsair, Sir Francis Drake, at the end of the sixteenth century. Based firmly on the histories of official chroniclers and early historians of Venezuela, its first four book are a matchless introduction to the subject and provide valuable background for scholarly study. The last three books, dealing with the bloody struggle for the domination of Caracas and its vicinity, constitute Oviedo's original contribution to the history of Venezuela. Widely divergent subject matter ranges from the ghastly crimes of the tyrant Lope de Aguirre, who murdered both his priest and his daughter, to the mystic transfiguration of Martin Tinajero, whose body attracted swarms of wild bees with its odor of honey. In his Letras y hombres de Venezuela, Arturo Uslar Pietri calls the book a "song of pride in race and love of the land, an elegy full of sentiment and melody."

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Автор: Wlasiuk Jonathan
Название: Refining Nature: Standard Oil and the Limits of Efficiency
ISBN: 0822965208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965206
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Описание: The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture ninety percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company's founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke, and created a consumer safety crisis by selling kerosene below Congressional standards. Local governments, guided by a desire to favor the interests of business, deployed elaborate engineering solutions to tackle petroleum pollution at taxpayer expense rather than heed public calls to abate waste streams at their source. Only when refinery pollutants threatened the health of the Great Lakes in the twentieth century did the federal government respond to a nascent environmental movement. Organized around the four classical elements at the core of Standard Oil's success (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water), Refining Nature provides an ecological context for the rise of one of the most important corporations in American history.

Автор: Rabe Stephen G.
Название: The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976
ISBN: 0292741537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741539
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: The Road to OPEC is the story of the fiery debates among U.S. oil companies, the Department of State, and the Venezuelan government over oil policies-clashes that led Venezuela to establish OPEC and to nationalize U.S.-owned properties.

Автор: Jesse Cromwell
Название: The Smugglers` World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
ISBN: 1469636883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469636887
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Описание: Examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Jesse Cromwell paints a vivid picture of the lives of littoral peoples who normalized their subversions of imperial law.

Автор: Velasco Alejandro
Название: Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
ISBN: 0520283325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520283329
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Описание: Based on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela`s largest public housing community, this book offers an in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution. It also provides context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chavez.

Автор: Samet Robert
Название: Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela
ISBN: 022663373X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226633732
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Описание: Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Ch vez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and instead emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nicol s Maduro, took the opposite approach, declaring an all-out war on crime (mano dura). What accounts for this drastic shift toward more punitive measures?

In Deadline, anthropologist Robert Samet answers this question by focusing on the relationship between populism, the press, and what he calls "the will to security." Drawing on nearly a decade of ethnographic research alongside journalists on the Caracas crime beat, he shows how the media shaped the politics of security from the ground up. Paradoxically, Venezuela's punitive turn was not the product of dictatorship, but rather an outgrowth of practices and institutions normally associated with democracy. Samet reckons with this apparent contradiction by exploring the circulation of extralegal denuncias (accusations) by crime journalists, editors, sources, and audiences. Denuncias are a form of public shaming or expos that channels popular anger against the powers that be. By showing how denuncias mobilize dissent, Deadline weaves a much larger tale about the relationship between the press, popular outrage, and the politics of security in the twenty-first century.

Автор: Tarver H. Micheal
Название: The History of Venezuela, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 1440857733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440857737
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: An indispensable resource for readers interested in Venezuelan history, this book analyzes Venezuela`s economic crisis through the context of its political and social history. For decades, the economy of Venezuela has depended on petroleum.

Автор: Angela Marino
Название: Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela
ISBN: 0810136740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810136748
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Описание: Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela is an innovative examination of how supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez engaged in performance practice to build and negotiate the terms of populism. In Angela Marino’s analysis populism is the practice of politics by ordinary people, which may include a variety of behaviors and forms of cultural production in live events, media, and the built environment.Beginning with populism as an embodied act, Marino draws attention to cultural performance, storytelling, theater, dance, film, and visual art to suggest that the populism of Venezuela’s emergent socialism reached its fullest expression in face-to-face live performance. Focusing on performances involving the devil, a figure frequently depicted in Venezuelan popular culture, she demonstrates that performance became a vehicle through which cultural producers negotiated boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in ways that overcame the simplistic logic of good versus evil, us versus them. She then argues that the politics of the devil dances resurfaced in theater, film, and other media both to antagonize and to unify social movements against dictatorship and neoliberalism. The result is a nuanced insight to the process of political mobilization during times of monumental change.By foregrounding the repertoires of populism, this book brings attention to voices that have been erased or left out of view by global media. Both capturing a vital record of the movement and providing valuable insights into its internal dynamics, Populism and Performance will interest readers in Latin American politics and political science, cultural studies, and performance studies.

Автор: Rojas Ari Stides
Название: Primeras Pa Ginas de Un Libro de Leyendas Historicas de Venezuela.
ISBN: 1249023475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781249023470
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Title: Primeras páginas de un libro de leyendas historicas de Venezuela, etc.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

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Автор: RICARDO HAUSMANN
Название: Venezuela Before Chavez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse
ISBN: 0271056312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271056319
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: A collection of essays that explore the collapse of economic growth in Venezuela since the 1970s. Essays discuss the relevance of public investment, labor markets, fiscal policy, institutions, politics, and values.