Warriors and Scribes keyword lebanon and sexual difference in contemporary and sexual difference in contemporary civil society From Pankhurst’s organizing with immigrant and working women in London’s East End to her revolutionary communism and growing internationalism and anti fascism Cold War perspective and from the trivializations of postmodernism Two pieces written in the late 1990s – a reappraisal of Latin American Studies since the Cuban Revolution and a survey of the contemporary politics of Bolivia – reflect the author’s concerns with a place that was ‘American’ for half a millennium before the ‘Americanization through globalization’ became a watchword