Twentieth-century Latin American revolutions by Becker, Marc (Professor of history)

Table of Contents: “…. -- Venezuela' Bolivarian Revolution (1999- Biography: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954-013) Document: Hugo Chávez, World Social Forum, 2005 -- Socialisms of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries…”


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Placing Latin America : contemporary themes in geography

Table of Contents: “…Bosco -- Cycles of economic change : political economy from neocolonialsim to the Bolivarian revolution / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Linda Quiquivix -- Urbanization : socio-spatial dimensions, challenges, and prospects / Fernando J. …”


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Global communications : toward a transcultural political economy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: toward a transcultural political economy of global communications -- The state and communication politics in multiple modernities -- Neoliberal strategies, socialist legacies: communication and state transformation in China / Yuezhi Zhao -- Media, state, and responses to globalization in post-communist Russia / Olessia Koltsova -- Regional crisis, personal solutions: the media's role in securing neoliberal hegemony in Singapore / Soek-Fang Sim -- Regulating the consciousness industry in the European Union: legitimacy, identity, and the changing state / Katharine Sarikakis -- Media, democracy and the state in Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Revolution' / Robert Duffy and Robert Everton -- Embedded markets and cultural transformations -- Cultures of empire: transnational media flows and cultural (dis)connections in East Asia / Koichi Iwabuchi -- Local and global sites of power in the circulation of Ghanania Adinkra / Boatema Boateng -- Critical transculturalism and Arab reality television: a preliminary theoretical exploration / Marwan Kraidy -- Rethinking the U.S. …”


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Seeking rights from the left : gender, sexuality, and the Latin American pink tide

Table of Contents: “…: gender, sexuality, popular power, and the state in Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution / Rachel Elfenbein -- Nicaragua and Ortega's "second" revolution: "restituting the rights" of women and sexual diversity? …”


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Imprints of revolution : visual representations of resistance

Table of Contents: “…. -- Hugo Chávez, iconic associationism, and the Bolívarian revolution / Joshua Frye -- Crisis and revolution: activist art in neoliberal Buenos Aires / Leonora Souza Paula -- Mexican spring : #YoSoy132's images of resistance / Nasheli Jiménez del Val.…”


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The plot to overthrow Venezuela : how the US is orchestrating a coup for oil by Kovalik, Dan

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Placing Latin America : contemporary themes in geography

Table of Contents: “…Cycles of economic change: political economy from neocolonialism to the Bolivarian Revolution / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Linda Quiquivix -- 4. …”


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Chávez, Venezuela and the new Latin America : an interview with Hugo Chávez by Chávez Frías, Hugo

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Rethinking Venezuelan politics : class, conflict, and the Chávez phenomenon by Ellner, Steve

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Hot spot : Latin America by Dent, David W.

Table of Contents: “…Andean South America -- Bolivia's Salida al Mar controversy -- Border conflicts and ungoverned spaces -- Colombia's cival war -- Drug wars and terrorism -- Governance and corruption -- Magdalena Medio (Colombia) -- Morales and the multinationals -- Petropolitics and pipeline wars -- Shining path and Tupac Amaru movements -- Venezuela: Chávez's Bolivarian revolution -- 4. The Southern Cone and Brazil -- Amazon powder keg -- Beagle Channel dispute -- Falklands/Malvinas fracas -- Governance and corruption -- Mapuche power? …”


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Handbook on World Social Forum activism

Table of Contents: “…Juris and Jackie Smith with the USSF Research Collective -- Democratic innovations -- Youth camps and the Bolivarian revolution : a story of horizontalism and blocked diffusion / Lesley J. …”


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Feminist agendas and democracy in Latin America

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Ours to master and to own : workers' control from the commune to the present

Table of Contents: “…Workers' control in India's communist-ruled state: labor struggles and trade unions in west Bengal / Arup Kumar Sen -- Argentinean worker-taken factories: trajectories of workers' control under the economic crisis / Marina Kabat -- Workers' control under Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution / Dario Azzellini -- Brazilian recovered factories: the constraints of workers' control / Maurício Sardá de Faria and Henrique T. …”


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Latin America's radical Left : challenges and complexities of political power in the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical, historical and international background -- The radical Left's turbulent transitions : an overview / Roger Burbach -- Brief hypotheses on the state, democracy and revolution in Latin America today / Diana Raby -- Institutional conflict and the Bolivarian Revolution : Venezuela's negotiation of the free trade area of the Americas / Marcel Nelson -- Part II. …”


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Revolutions and revolutionary movements by DeFronzo, James

Table of Contents: “…-- Summary -- References and further readings -- The Russian revolutions and Eastern Europe -- Geography and population -- The setting for revolution -- The Russian Social Democratic party -- The attempted Revolution of 1905 -- The Revolutions of 1917 -- Assessing the Bolshevik seizure of power -- The Civil War -- Leadership struggle -- The Soviet Union under Stalin -- The Russian revolution: long-term consequences -- The Soviet Union and revolution in Eastern Europe -- The solidarity movement and the roots of conflict in post-Communist party states -- The disintegration of the Soviet Union -- Economic and political trends -- Corruption -- Health and related issues -- The disintegration of Yugoslavia and the tragedy of Bosnia -- Color revolutions -- Conflict between Georgia and Russia in 2008 -- Summary and analysis -- Russian revolutions: chronology of major events -- References and further readings -- Selected DVD, film, and videocassette documentaries -- Revolution in China -- Geography and population -- Social and historical settings for revolution -- The development of the Republican movement -- Civil war in China -- The People's Republic of China: 1949-1990 -- The great proletarian cultural revolution: 1966-1968 -- Post-1978 reforms -- The 1989 prodemocracy demonstrations -- China's economic and political systems in the 1990s -- China's economic success relative to the former USSR -- morality and the future of the Chinese revolution -- China's progress, problems, policies, and plans for the future -- Summary and analysis -- Chinese revolution: chronology of major events -- References and further readings -- Selected DVD, film, and videocassette documentaries -- The Vietnamese revolution -- Geography and population -- Early cultural and political characteristics -- French conquest -- The French impact on Vietnam -- Resistance to French rule -- The impact of World War II -- Insurrection -- The French Indochina War: 1946-1954 -- The 1954 Geneva Accords on Indochina -- U.S. involvement in Vietnam: 1954-1975 -- Aftermath and related developments -- Summary and analysis -- Vietnamese revolution: chronology of major events -- References and further readings -- Selected DVD, film, and videocassette documentaries -- The Cuban revolution -- Geography and population -- Prerevolutionary political history -- Economy and social classes -- Revolution -- Revolutionary Cuba -- U.S. reactions to the revolution -- Cuba and revolution in other countries -- Cuba and Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution and the democratic shift to the left of Latin America -- Cuban economy and political system -- Summary and analysis -- Cuban Revolution: chronology of major events -- References and further readings -- Selected DVD, film, and videocassette documentaries -- Revolution in Nicaragua -- Geography and population -- Nicaragua before the revolution -- The revolution -- Postrevolutionary government, changes, and conflicts -- U.S. and world reactions to the revolution -- 1989 peace agreement and 1990 election -- Nicaragua in the 1990s -- Why were Republican administrations so hostile? …”


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The extreme centre : a warning by Ali, Tariq

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