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1 online resource |
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This collection of essays includes papers presented at the 21st annual Eugene Scassa MOAS Conference, an inter-collegiate competition and prestigious academic conference focused on inter-American political systems and the politics, history, and culture of the Americas. The volume includes papers on US-Mexico and Mexico-Spain business relations written by experts from universities in Mexico; Organisation of American States intervention in Cuba and Venezuela; social histories of Mexico involving women's rights, civil rights of immigrants in the American Southwest, and the history and nuance. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Evolution of the composition of bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States, 1970-2015 / Alejandra J. Huerta & María Julia Rosales -- Cultural diversity: determining elements in the commercial relations between Mexican and Spanish companies from Spanish managing directors' perspectives / Janelly Mitsue Haros Pérez -- Diplomatic pressure: Adolfo Domínguez, civil rights, and World War II / Matthew Gritter -- Improving role of women in Mexico's democracy / Mucia Flores -- Mexico's machos and maricónes: social stigma and the struggle of the mestizo homosexual in the context of history / Joshua Hyles -- Value models and student protest in Chile / James A. Norris -- Strengths and weaknesses of the Inter-American defense-of-democracy regime: an analysis of the 2014-2017 Venezuela crisis / Betsy Smith -- Cuba and the OAS: change and continuity / Arturo López; Emmanuel Muñoz & María Elena García, translators -- Faith of the founders: the religious arguments behind colonial America's first great voices / Diane Frazier -- Impact of the sugar industry on Cuban development and society / Regan Murr -- Impact of the sugar industry in Jamaica: 1655-present / Taylor Frei -- Impact of the sugar industry on Puerto Rico / Autumn Newman. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cross-cultural studies -- America.
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Cross-cultural studies. |
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America. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Hyles, Joshua, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cultural fabric of the Americas. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambride Scholars Publishing, 2018 9781527516250 1527516253 (OCoLC)1050955536 |
| ISBN |
9781527520011 (electronic book) |
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1527520013 (electronic book) |
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1527516253 |
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9781527516250 |
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