... The introduction examines hallyu cinema , a term the book uses to differentiate a specific group of films that is informed by the dominant characteristics of the larger hallyu (Korean Wave) phenomenon. It looks at how aspects of South Korean popular cinema were slowly adapted according...

... The hierarchy of Cuba’s Catholic Church slowly adjusted to worldwide progressive currents of the 1960s, such as the Second Vatican Council, while in 1975 Fidel characterized Cuba as an “Afro-Latin” country committed to global anticolonial struggles. The 1985 publication of Fidel and Religion...

... of the viceregal entry celebrates the city’s munificence and loyalty to the Crown, but also contains muted criticism of the colonial extraction that had slowly undermined the city’s fortunes. His paean to the beauty of women in the New World, along with his moral warnings about sexual impropriety, in fact add...

... The southeastern borderlands around Tarija were the site of sustained tensions between Spanish settlers, who slowly encroached on Indian territory, and Chiriguano tribes, which were not averse to military counteroffensives of their own. In the turbulent late-colonial period, the Chiriguano...

.... But the direct action of peons on haciendas as well as Indian reclamation of communal lands pushed the government to pass a more radical law for the redistribution of property. It was the second major agrarian reform in Latin America, after Mexico’s, which had unfolded both more slowly and with greater violence...

... in the public sphere. Committees in Defense of the Revolution (cdr) Communism atheism exile The hierarchy of Cuba’s Catholic Church slowly adjusted to worldwide progressive currents of the 1960s, such as the Second Vatican Council, while in 1975 Fidel characterized Cuba as an “Afro-Latin” country...

... criticism of the colonial extraction that had slowly undermined the city’s fortunes. His paean to the beauty of women in the New World, along with his moral warnings about sexual impropriety, in fact add a dash of excitement to his account of the festivities. The spectacle was also captured in a monumental...

... between Spanish settlers, who slowly encroached on Indian territory, and Chiriguano tribes, which were not averse to military counteroffensives of their own. In the turbulent late-colonial period, the Chiriguano leader Cumbay both negotiated and warred with Spanish authorities as well as with patriot...

... agrarian reform in Latin America, after Mexico’s, which had unfolded both more slowly and with greater violence. The first peasant unions had emerged in Cochabamba in the Ucureña area, in 1936. President Víctor Paz Estenssoro returned to the same location on 2 August 1953, to promulgate the Agrarian...