“…It is also widespread, causing human disease in the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa. The environments in which this disease occurs range from desert to tropical jungle to urban habitats. …”

“…Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural expression…”

“…An interdisciplinary study, Marketing Identities illuminates present-day discussions in Europe and the Americas regarding the experience and self-understanding of minority groups and combines media and cultural studies with German and Jewish history…”

“…Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse immigrant communities in the Americas. It looks at transoceanic moves in the larger context of migration systems, examining their connections and the crucial role of social networks in migrants’ geographic mobility and adaptation. …”

“…The testimonies introduce an intimate view on the entanglements of personal experiences and the nuances of neoliberal-patriarchal societies in the Americas. The ideal of the “happy family”, as well as the construction of the “poor migrant” lose their power because within the testimonies also appears the agency of the subject within the inter-American family and migratory changes…”

“…Once known as the California Riviera, the Salton Sea is now called one of America̕s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, that coughs up dead fish and birds by the thousands in frequent die-offs that occur. …”

“…"In this project, David Tavárez examines the largest and least-known corpus of Indigenous religious texts in the colonial Americas. These were detailed calendars and cosmologies based on pre-Columbian Zapotec cultural norms written by Indigenous scholars for other natives. …”

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“…De esta manera, quisieramos iniciar un diálogo entre diferentes tradiciones académicas hasta ahora solamente conectadas en casos (y pensadores) aislados, y al mismo tiempo dilucir las posibilidades de un poscolonialismo específicamente latinoamericano que considera las semejanzas, pero también las diferencias entre las sociedades poscoloniales del antiguo Imperio Británico y las de la colonización española o portuguesa en América Latina. En este contexto, no sólo se discuten las nociones teóricas de la crítica cultural latinoamericana y las del poscolonialismo y su posible aplicación en América Latina, sino también se analizan casos concretos en que las nociones en cuestión se pueden aplicar al análisis de procesos político culturales. …”