Books written by James Dunkerley
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Warriors and Scribes: Essays on the History and Politics of Latin America
Anglo-America has possessed neither a uniform imperialist vocation, nor the consistent capacity to impose it.
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Political Suicide in Latin America and Other Essays
For a more moderate and critical appraisal , see Richard H. Immerman , ' Guatemala as Cold War History ' , Political Science ... 2 , Mexico 1985 ; Brian Murphy , ' The Stunted Growth of Campesino Organisations ' , in Richard H. Adams ...
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Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America
Quoted in Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn , Agribusiness in the Americas , New York 1980 , p . ... Tenencia de la Tierra y Desarrollo Rural en Centroamérica , San José 1973 , p.42 ; T.J. Downing , ' Agricultural Modernization in El ...
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American foreign policy: Studies in intellectual history
This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationalities of government thought to have marked America’s engagement with the world during this ...
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Crusoe and His Consequences
Hunter, Reluctant Pilgrim, 189. Quoted in Hunter, Reluctant Pilgrim, 32, 33. Rogers, Crusoe, 53. Rogers notes that Starr concentrates on Anglican doctrine, whereas Hunter mines the dissenting sermons more fully, which makes most sense ...
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The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda
The end of the Cold War removed hemispheric security from the top of the agenda of U.S.-Latin American relations. Democracy, trade and investment, drugs, and migration rose in importance. Pressures...
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Grenada: Whose Freedom?.
The US invasion of Grenada in October 1983 was a flagrant and direct violation of international law. The Reagan government's determination to suppress the Grenadian people's right to sovereignty and...
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Americana: The Americas in the World, Around 1850
Dunkerley's majestic and unorthodox look at the Americas of the 1850s from an Atlanticist perspective: a re-appraisal, illuminated by court cases, of the first steps in American modernity.
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Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America
Annotation Country-by-country studies of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica as well as a wealth of charts, statistics and chronologies. Dunkerly teaches political studies at Queen Mary College,...
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The Pacification of Central America: Political Change in the Isthmus, 1987-1993
This unique guide to the politics and recent history of Central America by one of its most distinguished commentators opens with a succinct overview of pacification and democracy in the region.
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Bolivia: Revolution and the Power of History in the Present : Essays
This volume brings together essays written over three decades on Bolivian history and politics. The book opens with a contemporary survey of the new government of the MAS headed by...
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Rebellion in the Veins: Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-82
The story is carried through to the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1982, presided over by Hernán Siles Zuazo, who first came to power in the revolution thirty years earlier.
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Crusoe, Defoe and the Way of Words
Alongside a precis with surprising revelations for those not familiar with the detail of the story, and a rich biographical sketch of its creator, Crusoe and His Consequences draws on a range of writers, including Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques ...
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Americas Plural: Old Wine in New Bottles?
Americas Plural: Old Wine in New Bottles?
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Studies in the Formation of the Nation-state in Latin America
This book adopts a variety of disciplinary, thematic, and country-based approaches to the complex and contested issues around the character of the nation-state in Latin America. In recent years there...
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Brazil Since 1985: Politics, Economy and Society
Looking into Brazil's recent experience of democracy is an arduous undertaking, given the complexities of a country of continental size and great regional contrasts, where areas of prosperity and wealth...