Archive for 2003

Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico

Beer, Caroline C. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.

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1998 IDRF Fellow Caroline Beer’s new book explores the consequences of democratic politics in Mexico . . .

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Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770

Sweet, James. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

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Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on . . .

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Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in India

Mazzarella, William. Raleigh-Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

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1997 IDRF Fellow William Mazzarella traces the rise in India during the 1980s of mass consumption as a self-consciously . . .

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Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa

Lieberman, Evan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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1997 IDRF Fellow Evan Lieberman’s analysis focuses on the politics of taxation as a way of understanding the development . . .

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Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge; The Soviet Space Race with Apollo

Siddiqi, Asif. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003.

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First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo, these two volumes are the first comprehensive history . . .

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Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies

Htun, Mala. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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As Argentina, Brazil, and Chile made transitions from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted . . .

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Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918

Blumi, Isa. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2003.

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