Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
We drink from our own wells We drink from our own wells Gustavo Gutiérrez An insightful presentation of a Latin American spirituality based on the experience of the poor and their struggle for life. OL10954813W
Economic and social history of medieval Europe Economic and social history of medieval Europe Pirenne, Henri "In this book, Henri Pirenne, the great Belgian economic historian, traces the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire t… OL1433144W
The economic history of Latin America since independence The economic history of Latin America since independence Victor Bulmer-Thomas "Uses modern analytical techniques to describe Latin American economic history from early 1800s-early 1990s. Highly empirical work. Includes a superb bibliography. A major contribution"--Handbook of… OL1719387W
Historia, política y sociedad. Investigaciones sobre ámbitos de la realidad moderna y contemporánea… Historia, política y sociedad. Investigaciones sobre ámbitos de la realidad moderna y contemporánea… Antonio José Echeverry P.,Rafael Silva Vega,Adriana Santos Delgado Los textos acá reunidos son resultado de proyectos de investigación de maestría, y fueron presentados en el Primer encuentro de estudiantes y egresados de ambas maestrías, convocado en junio de 2017.… OL17863213W
La gran brecha La gran brecha Joseph E. Stiglitz In the face of rising inequality in America, Joseph E. Stiglitz charts a path toward real recovery and a more equal society. A singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and econom… OL19761848W
El nuevo paradigma de los mercados financieros El nuevo paradigma de los mercados financieros George Soros "In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to c… OL19928881W
Promises not kept Promises not kept John Isbister "John Isbister brings the dilemmas of international poverty and the Third World into the twenty-first century in the fifth edition of this broadly-read text. Besides including the most current inform… OL2756468W
The Idea of Poverty The Idea of Poverty Gertrude Himmelfarb Discusses the views of great thinkers from 1750 to 1850--including Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, and Friedrich Engels--toward the conditi… OL2940959W
The heart that bleeds The heart that bleeds Alma Guillermoprieto "Poignant stories capturing the essence of everyday life for average Latin Americans. This New Yorker essayist and Mexican-born journalist perspicaciously covers topics from violence, inequality, and… OL3945691W
Las venas abiertas de America Latina Las venas abiertas de America Latina Galeano,Diego López,Eduardo Galeano,Galeano E. Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural… OL698173W
Chicago Metropolis 2020 Chicago Metropolis 2020 Elmer W. Johnson "In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing more quickly than New York, flooded with industrial money and brassy confidence but ravaged by great income disparit… OL8554003W
The power elite The power elite C. Wright Mills >In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills published the classic book The Power Elite, which looked at how a narrow segment of the population with high positions in different institutions (legislators, co… OL9008648W