The hispanic world and american intellectual life, 1820-1880

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after ...

The judicialization of politics in Latin America

This collection of essays analyzes the diverse manifestations of the judicialization of politics in contemporary Latin America, assessing their positive and negative consequences for state-society relations, the rule of law, and democratic governance in the region.

Latin America

a new interpretation

This innovative contribution to comparative area studies evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without ...

Faith and impiety in revolutionary Mexico

This book combines two unusually important themes - religion and revolution - in the context of Mexico's 1910 Revolution. Above all, it deepens our understanding of religion's importance within the Revolution by stressing the interrelationship between revolutionary and religious ideas and practices. While Mexico's ...

The hispanic world and american intellectual life, 1820-1880

This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and ...