de la Torre / Striffler / Kirk The Ecuador Reader

History, Culture, Politics
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9011-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

Reihe: The Latin America Readers

An interdisciplinary anthology of work from and about Ecuador, including nonfiction, poetry, journalism, history, and cultural analysis, with many primary resources never before published in English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de la Torre, Carlos

Striffler, Steve

Kirk, Robin

Starn, Orin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. Conquest and Colonial Rule 9

II. A New Nation 101

III. The Rise of the Popular 159

IV. Global Currents 193

V. Domination and Struggle 281

VI. Cultures and Identities Redefined 341

Suggestions for Further Reading 423

Acknowledgment of Copyrights 427

Index 431

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos de la Torre is Director of the doctoral program in and Chair of Political Studies at FLACSO (La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) in Quito, Ecuador. He is the author of Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience and several books in Spanish, including Afroquiteños: Ciudadanía y Racismo.Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: the United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995 and a coeditor of Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas, both also published by Duke University Press.