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This collection contains articles, biographical essays, slides, notes and other materials from Homer Aschmann's tenure as professor in the Geography department at the University of California, Riverside. The bulk of the collection consists of reprints of articles by various experts in the field of geography. Many of the reprints include the author's signature as well as a personal message written to Aschmann.

Abstract This collection contains material on the politics, economy, and history of Latin America, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa collected by Dr. Ronald H. Chilcote, Professor Emeritus of Economics at UC Riverside. Highlights include rare books and periodicals on Brazilian left movements; approximately four thousand literary pamphlets of social poetry, drawn from the singing and writing of troubadours (Cordel); books, ephemera, and research, including written and audio interviews, on...

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This collection contains 16mm films, videocassettes, documents, and other material regarding the professional work of Saul Landau, scholar and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues as well as Professor Emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

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This collection contains magazines, fliers, newspapers, pamphlets, and other material on Latin America. Primarily contains material on literature, sociology, politics and other topics concerning the political reformations and revolutions in Latin America.

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This collection contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, proofs, and other material generated during the creation of Latin American Perspectives, a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas.

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This collection contains press clippings and other material regarding Latin America that was collected by Bobbye S. Ortiz, a feminist and social activist that served as editor of the Monthly Review. Materials in this collection primarily relate to Chile during the years that Salvador Allende served as president and the aftermath immediately following the coup and his death.

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This collection includes the diary, record book, and photographs of botanist and agronomist Wilson Popenoe, who studied avocados, navel oranges, mangoes, and other plant life throughout Mexico, Central and South America. Popenoe was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Seed and Plant Introduction in the role of agricultural explorer from 1913-1925, where he collaborated with David Fairchild, Archibald Shamel, and Palemon Howard Dorsett.

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This collection contains newspaper clippings and conference papers related to the "Seminario Internacional Escenarios Politicos de la Transición a la Democracia," a seminar held in July of 1989 that discussed the various political transitions from socialism to democracy occurring in Latin America.

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This collection contains publications and other material regarding Latin America and Peru collected by Hobart A. Spalding, a professor of history from Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. According to Spalding, this collection provides “a snapshot of academic and political writing in Peru during the late 1980s [through the 1990s], as well as related material published in the U.S.”

Abstract The collection consists of the entire library and political archive of the Agencia Noticiosa Paraguaya (ANP), a news agency focused on Paraguayan opposition parties and organizations that operated in Buenos Aires from 1973 until it was closed by the Argentine military regime in 1977 and again from 1984 until the fall of General Alfredo Stroessner in 1989. Compiled over a thirty-year period by Guillermo Arturo Weyer, director of the ANP, the collection includes books, pamphlets, newspaper...