Americas

The Americas list at Zed Books spans both the South and North continents, with a focus on Latin American politics, society and culture.

As with all our Area Studies lists, our Americas titles interweave themes of decoloniality, post-colonialism, the relationships between grassroots activism and national politics, the roles of key political leaders as well as economic development. The Americas list is home to a number of influential authors whose work focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century social movements, as well as to deep analysis of the Pink Tide and it’s effects on contemporary American politics, as well as international relations.

Titles in subject

Land, God, and Guns

Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland

Levi Gahman

Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America

Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions

Edited by Ute Röschenthaler and Alessandro Jedlowski

Peru

Elite Power and Political Capture

John Crabtree and Francisco Durand

Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America

An Oral History

Dirk Kruijt

Media Movements

Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America

María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord

Slumming It

The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

Fabian Frenzel

The Punitive City

Privatized Policing and Protection in Neoliberal Mexico

Markus-Michael Müller

Latin America's Leaders

Rut Diamint and Laura Tedesco

Protecting the Health of the Poor

Social Movements in the South

Edited by Abraar Karan and Geeta Sodhi

Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities

Edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt

Venezuela Reframed

Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the Twenty-First Century

Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández

America

From White Settlement to World Hegemony

Victor Kiernan
With a Preface by Eric Hobsbawm

The New War on the Poor

The Production of Insecurity in Latin America

John Gledhill

Contested Powers

The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America

Edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink, and Owen Logan

Killing Hope

US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II

William Blum Updated Edition

Leadership in the Cuban Revolution

The Unseen Story

Antoni Kapcia

Land and Freedom

The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism

Leandro Vergara-Camus

The New Extractivism

A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?

James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer

The Rise of the BRICS in Africa

The Geopolitics of South-South Relations

Padraig Carmody

Bolivia

Processes of Change

John Crabtree and Ann Chaplin

Cuba and Its Neighbours

Democracy in Motion

Arnold August

Latin America's Turbulent Transitions

The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism

Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, and Federico Fuentes

Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America

Challenges and Limitations to Democratization

Edited by Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby

Everyday Revolutions

Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

Marina A. Sitrin
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