Americas Quarterly - Winter 2012

New from Stanford University Press

The Dragon in the Room China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization KEVIN P. GALLAGHER and ROBERTO PORZECANSKI

“This book makes a compelling case that China’s high growth and broad-based competitiveness is undermining future industrialization possibilities and growth in many Latin American countries. Written in an easily accessible style, this timely book is a must-read for policy makers and analysts of Latin American development.” —Eva Paus, “By far the most authoritative account of the influence of China on recent Latin American economic development.” —José Antonio Ocampo,

$19.95 paper $55.00 cloth

The World Under Pressure
How China and India Are Influencing the
Global Economy and Environment
CARL J. DAHLMAN

“A number of authors have looked in tandem at China
and India as development challenges for the world.
But, the framework presented in The World Under
Pressure and the amount of information that Dahlman
weaves together make this work a distinctive and
worthy read.” —Ernesto Zedillo,
Yale University and
Former President of Mexico
$65.00 cloth

Learning From the Global Financial Crisis
Creatively, Reliably, and Sustainably

Edited by PAUL SHRIVASTAVA and MATT STATLER
“The editors and contributors are on target in
identifying creativity—human, social, organizational,
and ecological—as key to any paradigm shift in
the economy. This volume makes tangible this key
insight, engaging readers with essays that are at once
informative and provocative.”
—Ronald Purser,
San Francisco State University

High Reliability and Crisis Management

$65.00 cloth

The New Entrepreneurs
How Race, Class, and
Gender Shape American
Enterprise

ZULEMA VALDEZ

“In this richly textured and engaging book, Valdez presents a fresh look at entrepreneurship and a new angle from which to gauge how ethnicity and race matter in shaping people’s lives.

She succeeds in debunking myths about ‘cultural
explanations’ in favor of a lens that incorporates
structure and agency to demonstrate how differences in
social positions lead to divergent life chances.”
—Cecilia Menjivar,
Arizona State University

$21.95 paper $65.00 cloth

Voice and Vote
Decentralization and Participation in Post-
Fujimori Peru
STEPHANIE L. MCNULTY

“Thoughtful and informed, this book expertly argues that the post-Fujimori reforms set the stage for various regions in Peru to achieve effective leadership and a collaborative, organized civil society, critical to the establishment of a virtuous cycle of participation. McNulty’s impressive research spans both multi-year observation at Peru’s grassroots and comparative analysis across the globe.”

New Destination Dreaming
Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the
Rural American South

HELEN B. MARROW

“Immigration has come to small town America,
and Helen Marrow offers a penetrating look at how
Latino immigrants are faring in two rural southern
counties. She shines new light on old issues and focuses
a clarifying lens on the challenges of assimilation
in places that have had little experience of diversity
beyond the black-white color line.”
—Douglas S. Massey,
Princeton University