The Cultural Fabric of the Americas : Essays from the 21st Annual Eugene Scassa MOAS Conference.

The Cultural Fabric of the Americas : Essays from the 21st Annual Eugene Scassa MOAS Conference.

1st ed.

9781527520011
9781527516250

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

©2018.

English

1 online resource (219 pages).

GN345.7 .C858 2018

306.0917/47

This collection of essays includes papers presented at the 21st annual Eugene Scassa Mock OAS 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 of LGBT groups in Mexico; quantitative analysis of protest movements in Chile; religious history as pertaining to politics in the early United States; and a series of three short papers on the importance and legacy of sugar in the Caribbean. Written by recognized authorities in their fields and by promising new scholars alike, the collection presents a wide assortment of viewpoints and research backgrounds to portray the Americas and its vast and diverse cultural fabric.

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