Handbook of Latin American Studies: 1952, No. 18
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
A Latin American Context for Disability Studies
“Let’s achieve a miracle” (Logremos un milagro) was the slogan of the first Telethon in Chile, a charity fund-raiser for the rehabilitation of children with disabilities. “La Teletón,” founded by Mario Kreutzberger1 in 1978, was so successful that its name and structure have been replicated through an umbrella organization operating in twelve different Latin American countries.2 Images of child...
متن کاملLatin American postcolonial studies and global decolonization
Western metropolitan centers since the late 198os, it is to be expected that its further development would involve efforts, like this one, to take stock of its regional expressions. Yet, while the rubric "Latin American postcolonial studies" suggests the existence of a regional body of knowledge under that name, in reality it points to a problem: there is no corpus of work on Latin America comm...
متن کاملThe Latin American Consortium of Studies in Obesity (LASO).
Current, high-quality data are needed to evaluate the health impact of the epidemic of obesity in Latin America. The Latin American Consortium of Studies of Obesity (LASO) has been established, with the objectives of (i) Accurately estimating the prevalence of obesity and its distribution by sociodemographic characteristics; (ii) Identifying ethnic, socioeconomic and behavioural determinants of...
متن کاملLatin American Presidencies Interrupted
Almost 25 years have passed since Latin America began what has turned out to be the fullest and most enduring experience it has ever had with constitutional democracy. While dictatorships were the norm in the 1960s and 1970s—only Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela avoided authoritarian rule during those decades—today an elected government rules in every Latin American country except Cuba and H...
متن کاملLatin American economic development
This article examines the strategies, successes and failures of economic development in Latin America since 1870. We divide the analysis into four key development phases: primary export-led growth (1870–1929), import substitution industrialisation (1945–82), debt crisis (1980s) and the Washington Consensus (1990s). We demonstrate progress on many fronts, but underscore two key challenges for th...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-36.3.403