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The first book on the shocking reality of AIDS in Latin America In this revealing book, the first to give a complete account of how the AIDS epidemic has affected our neighbors to the South, Timothy Frasca uncovers the enormous cultural changes which have taken place throughout Latin America as a result of the disease. He brings issues such as sexuality, class, and religious beliefs into the open for the first time. Compelling interviews with activists, people with AIDS, government leaders, and church leadersall show how the epidemic has developed. Frasca draws lessons from Latin America and the strong activist involvement that succeeded in increasing government resources to fight the disease. Tragic tales and gripping narrating are intermixed with the first set of comprehensive epidemic statistics from the continent, eagerly awaited by the World Health community.
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Where's Silvana Paternostro?.......2006-06-20
It strikes me as strange that this book does not reference Silvana Paternostro's book on AIDS and Latin America, called "In the Land of God and Man."
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Chile and Argentina have established their place in the world wine markets, while other countries in Latin America are also growing in importance as affordable wines of good quality become ever harder to find. Christopher Fielden provides a thorough introduction to the ten wine-producing countries of Central and South America, examining the history, vine varieties, and producers of each country in turn. Since 1990, he has traveled extensively throughout Latin America, and the resulting volume is a discerning guide to the best the region has to offer.
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Badly organized, difficult to use........2003-09-27
This book, published by Faber & Faber, is poorly structured and edited-not up to the usually high F&F standard. Christopher Fielden has provided a prodigious quantity of words, dutifully arranged in sentences and paragraphs. The effect on the reader who might be looking for useful, accessible and specific information on the wine regions, wine houses and vintages of the important producers of Latin America is wearing. The index is next-to-useless,skim-reading is the only way to track down a wine or producer of interest. There appears to be no addressal of vintners, as opposed to growers who produce their own wines. For Chile, I recommend Hubrecht Duijker's Wines of Chile. It is both accessible, accurate in content and well-written.
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Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS
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Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how diseaseâwhether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental illnessâwas experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Based on the idea that the meanings of sicknessâand healthâare contestable and subject to controversy, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America displays the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to social and cultural history. Examining diseases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, the contributors explore the production of scientific knowledge, literary metaphors for illness, domestic public health efforts, and initiatives shaped by the agendas of international agencies. They also analyze the connections between ideas of sexuality, disease, nation, and modernity; the instrumental role of certain illnesses in state-building processes; welfare efforts sponsored by the state and led by the medical professions; and the boundaries between individual and state responsibilities regarding sickness and health. Diego Armus’s introduction contextualizes the essays within the history of medicine, the history of public health, and the sociocultural history of disease.
Contributors. Diego Armus, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Kathleen Elaine Bliss, Ann S. Blum, Marilia Coutinho, Marcus Cueto, Patrick Larvie, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Diana Obregón, Nancy Lays Stepan, Ann Zulawski
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Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. KennedyÂ's Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations, meant to help promote economic growth and political reform, with the long-term goal of countering Communism in the region. Considering the Alliance for Progress in Chile, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, Jeffrey F. Taffet deftly examines the programÂ's successes and failures, providing an in-depth discussion of economic aid and foreign policy, showing how policies set in the 1960s are still affecting how the U.S. conducts foreign policy today. This study adds an important chapter to the history of US-Latin American Relations.
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A strange episode that is at once a central part of American history and a tragic tale of human ambition and cultural misunderstanding. In an ill-starred undertaking, Napoleon III attempted to install Archduke Maximilian of Austria as the Emperor of Mexico. The move pitted liberals against conservatives, and the New World against the Old--and ended with Maximilian's execution, the insanity of his wife, Charlotte, and the emergence of the United States as a world power. "Jasper Ridley has written a riveting account of an episode which is exciting throughout and tragic at the end; it is also essential reading to understand the history of the United States today."--Antonia Fraser.
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A Forgotten Sidebar to the Civil War.......2007-08-28
Most books about the American Civil War take up battles and warfare. The few that concern the diplomatic and international repercussions of the war are usually about Confederate relations with Britain and France. Yet the relationship with Mexico was just as important.
The Native American Liberal Benito Juarez assumed power as President of Mexico in January 1861, just as southern states had begun to secede from the Union.
France's Emperor Napoleon III took advantage of the Civil War to send forces to occupy Mexico, and installed the brother of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, Archduke Maximilian, as "Emperor of Mexico". Juarez and his forces fled to the north of the country. When the Civil War ended in mid-1865, the United States was strong enough to put pressure on France, and Napoleon III withdrew his forces. Without that support, Maximilian's regime collapsed. He was captured by Juarez' victorious army, and despite the protests of European countries, the "emperor" was executed.
"Maximilian & Juarez" is an excellent account of the entire conflict, starting with the Liberals' victory, and the flight of Mexican reactionaries to Europe in search of support to overthrow the regime. Jasper Ridley portrays Maximilian as a sympathetic dupe, a would-be Liberal constitutional monarch, who was fooled into thinking that the people of Mexico wanted him. Napoleon III's betrayal of his promises to Maximilian left him to die, as the would-be emperor refused all encouragement to flee while he could.
This book not only describes in great detail the conflict between the Juaristas and the Imperials, it also covers Mexican relations with both the United States and the Confederacy during the conflict. It also takes up to some extent the flight of many Confederate exiles to Mexico when their cause failed.
A man with a tragic flaw.......2003-10-02
Maximilian wanted to be wanted. Probably he wished it so badly he was blinded to the facts. Comparisons between the Ridley work and the earlier one are probably needless. The French invasion of Mexico in the 1860s is such an obscure piece of historical knowledge for most outside Mexico as to render the point moot. A new work every few years to remind a few readers is most likely a positive development. With each reiteration of the tale a few more Americans might have a dawn of awakening that, while North and South filled the gutters with blood inside the US boundaries the world continued to turn elsewhere.
Comprehensive histories of Mexico from 1800 to 1870 are rare. Most US citizens only know about the Texas War of Independence. Few even know about the events in the adjacent province, New Mexico, during those violent years.
The Ridley work covers a lot of ground. The details of what Napoleon III intended, why Britain became involved, and why Ferdinand Max persuaded himself Mexico needed and wanted him are generally made plain in this book. Politics in the US and the Civil War made this a saga to be watched only out of the corner of the eye while a major European power invaded a neighbor and installed an emperor. The book is also a middling introduction for the casual reader to become familiar with the first popular leader in Mexican history, Benito Juarez.
I consider it a good read and a worthy addition to my bookshelf.
Worth Having on your bookshelf.......2003-03-25
I started doing some basic reading about Juarez prior to writing a newspaper article about Cinco de Mayo. A number of sources recommended this book, so I found a copy and dug into it. Ridley doesn't "whitewash" any of the main figures, nor is it a hatchet job. I'd certainly gained more respect for Benito after reading Ridley's book.
More than Max and Benny.......2002-08-01
Ridley does a more than credible job of portraying the conflict surrounding the attempt to install a foreign emperor in Mexico. Much emphasis is placed on the internal power struggle between conservatives and liberals and the ultimate succes of the Mexican hero Benito Juarez. Many of the leaders of the times are introduced but seldom with any great depth. The title is Maximillian &Juarez and this is not a biography I suppose. Napolean III is obviously given more treatment since it was his idea to install the ill fated Maximillian. The other leaders who are involved in the story are Mexican Generals Santa Ana, Leonardo Marquez, Porfirio Diaz, Miguel Miramon, Melchor Ocampo and other foreign major role players like Marshall Achille Bazine, William Steward. United States major role players brought tot life are Generals Grant amd Sheridan and of course President Lincoln. Their are also some pages dedicated to the plan(adopt) of Maximillian to install his successor Augustin Iturbide(grandson of Emperor Iturbide) but this was not to be. Of particular interest is the international scheme and involvement of various nations in this attempt to install Maximillian. Light is shed on the United States involvement although it was preoccupied with it's own internal problems since it was during the time of the Civil War. The difference between the South's attitude is also discussed. It was also interesting to see the interaction between the foreign French society in Mexcio and the ruling class of Mexico, many marriages were conveniently arranged to preserve the strength of families. I thoroughly enjoyed this glimpse into a part of Mexico's past and learned some interesting facts about the players and places involved. The importation of arms and the circumvent route was fascinating as was the involvement of the French Foreign Legion. The importation of 500 captured black Sudanese by Egyptian forces I found quite alarming and cruel as they were taken unwillingly from their families not knowing their fate. The thought behind this was that they would be better suited for the heat and could fight(for their lives) better than the French. Many of the cruelities and manipulations of war are revealed in this book. I would recommend this book to anyone who is a history buff or has a particular interest in Mexico or France. Although the title features the main players the emphasis is not neccessarily just focued on them and gives a much broader and realistic scope. A very readable and enjoyable portrait of a part of Mexico's history of foreign intervention that does not read like a history book but more like a novel, a bittersweet story of foreign intervention, war and triumph.
The Emperor versus the Indian........2002-05-22
I found this book very similar in material to Gene Smith's earlier book Maximilian and Carlotta. I think Ridley followed
the same context as Smith, and threw in a little more material on
Juarez. So, if you have read one of these books, don't read the other.
Overall, it presents the conflict between the Conservatives and
Liberals and Maximilian and Juarez correctly. It poses Maximilian as heroic and wrong headed while Juarez is portrayed as stubborn and single minded. Both needed more analization to portray them correctly. The book was very readable.
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Intermediary Ngos: The Supporting Link in Grassroots Development (Kumarian Press Library of Management for Development)
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Intermediary NGOs offers information giving a clearer picture of nongovernmental organizations, helping the student to understand and evaluate their often misunderstood role in the Third World. Carroll demonstrates how NGOs work directly with and provide practical support to grassroots groups on a local level.
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Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid
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Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid is the first comprehensive, critical analysis of the influence of economic historian Walt Whitman Rostow's theory of the "stages of economic growth" on U.S. foreign aid policy during the 1950s and 1960s. Kimber Charles Pearce analyzes Rostow's rhetorical approaches to producing and promoting his modernization theory to U.S. policymakers during the Cold War, as a template for development aid programs designed to contain Soviet expansionism around the world. Drawing upon Rostow's writings, public speeches, congressional testimony, personal interviews, and recently declassified documents, Pearce examines the economist's protracted campaign to convince policy makers to apply his theory of economic growth to the development aid initiatives of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The analysis culminates in a case study of Rostow's influence on the planning, advocacy, and implementation of President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress to develop Latin America.
Pearce demonstrates how Rostow's dual role as a leading architect of U.S. development aid programs and U.S. military escalation in South Vietnam made him a key figure, both in the history of developmental economic theory and in U.S. diplomacy during the Cold War. He argues that Rostow's role in economic diplomacy epitomized the social scientific turn toward argumentation and advocacy that occurred in the United States after World War II. Using methods of rhetorical analysis, Pearce offers new insights into how Rostovian theory was translated into political language by members of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations, and how Rostow's themes of nation-building, fiscal interdependency, and macro-management of the global economy have become commonplaces of post-Cold War policy discourse. By illuminating relations of social scientific research, foreign policy advocacy, and political power in the context of U.S. economic diplomacy during the Cold War, Rostow, Kennedy! , and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid makes a significant contribution to the study of the rhetoric of economics and American diplomatic history.
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Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, And AIDS (Series in Political Economy and Economic Development in Latin America)
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Cuban heteronormativity critically analyzed.......2002-11-11
Marvin Leiner lived in Cuba in 1968-69 and revisited the island periodically thereafter. In 1978 he published _Children are the Revolution_, a book on Cuban daycare programs. A democratic socialist in the I.F. Stone and Michael Harrington tradition, Leiner admires the dramatic and effective extensions of literacy and healthcare to the masses, while believing that "socialism without democracy is a contradiction...lead[ing] to horrendous abuse of power." It is as a "friend of the social revolution" that Leiner criticizes repression of dissent and the ongoing history of persecution of males judged insufficiently masculine (this is the official and folk Cuban construction of male homosexuality).
Women-women relations have never been an official or social concern. Extirpating male homosexuality, on the other hand, has been an enduring preoccupation of the regime. Toughening effeminate boys) through a variant of aversion therapy began early. "At no time did social scientists or educators consider homosexuality as anything other than `feminine' behavior by males, in accordance with common cultural stereotypes", This model was accompanied by a belief that effeminacy/homosexuality is infectious, which justified removing effeminate boys from regular schools and barring "homosexuals" from jobs in education, medicine, and the mass media, where they might "infect" youth with their "incurable disease." With the help of the block-level Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, those regarded as deviant by their neighbors were forced into "rehabilitation" work camps from 1963 until 1967, when these military-run concentration camps were closed in response to international pressure.
The view of male homosexuality as an "incurable disease"- and the eagerness to isolate its carriers where they could not infect others-were recapitulated when HIV was recognized in Cuba: another incurable disease reactivated the response of massive surveillance and quarantine of those identified as "diseased." In addition to the equation of gender variance and homosexuality, another tenet of machismo is relevant to the strategy for dealing with AIDS that Cuba developed. ... In this widespread view, male sexual compulsivity is part of nature, not amenable to education, so stopping sexual transmissionof HIV required quarantine of those afflicted with incurable diseases, even of those macho "good revolutionaries" who volunteered for Cuba's African military adventures and contracted HIV there.
Rather than use the highly-developed educational system and the CDR structure to ensure that HIV+ people knew about and practiced safe sex, Cuban public health officials mandated life sentences in concentration camps ("sanatoria") for healthy HIV+ people (three-quarters of them men, one third of whom are estimated to be "homosexuals"). Leiner is well aware that married heterosexuals receive the best treatment in the camps (that since the writing of his book have been too expensive to maintain) and are much more likely than homosexual "degenerates" to be considered "responsible" enough to be furloughed out).
Leiner is critical of the Cuban government's enduring authoritarianism, machismo, heterosexism, and how the latter two blocked sex education and a more humane AIDS policy. Although there is less than one would expect from his own long-running observations and interviews, Leiner marshalls a range of data from published and unpublished sources about official policies. More in sorrow than in anger, he criticizes Cuban sex education, persecution of homosexuals (and of the effeminate boys regarded as proto-homosexuals), and the incarceration for their lifetime of HIV+ persons (now alledgedly relaxed). While ably analyzing cultural roots of sexual politics, Leiner's book gives practically no sense of what it is like for men or for women to live in Cuba, in or out of its concentration camps. (For what it was like during the 1970s, there is Reinaldo Arenas's chilling memoir _Before Night Falls_).
Must be appreciated as an original text............2002-07-22
The history of homosexuality and homophobia in Cuba is rich; just like most topics related to the Island. Nowadays, everyone is writing about "gay Cuba." The release of the film "Before Night Falls" only exemplifies and promotes the trend. However, when this book was written that was not the case. The book sometimes feels like it is picking for straws. Still, as an original effort it is worth the read. I remember being glad this book existed when I found it.
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Justice Beyond Our Borders (Inter-American Development Bank)
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Improving systems of justice in Latin America is important to consolidate democracy and develop equitable and efficient market economies. Judicial reform involves strengthening the rule of law and developing a modern and transparent juridical process as well as a system of justice that is impartial, independent, efficient and accessible to all.
Justice Beyond Our Borders looks at successful judicial systems and practices outside of Latin America that could serve as models for countries of the region. It examines large-scale judicial modernization processes as well as innovative systems of case management and legal defense for the poor. The book draws on applicable experiences for Latin America from across the globe, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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