Cultural Region/Latin America
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Letters from Mexico
$24.99 Add to cartHernan Cortes’s Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town o… [more below]
- Author: Cortes, Hernan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1638231974
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Brazil
$35.00 Add to cartThe second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America’s largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil’s history from the arrival of the Portuguese… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Fausto, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1107635241
- Language: English
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¿Cuál Camino?
$14.99 Add to cartEste manual satisface dos necesidades: la de conocer las doctrinas falsas para permanecer firmes en la verdad y la de aprender a acercarse con amor y argumentos s?lidos a quienes vagan extraviados en
- Author: Walker, Luisa Jeter De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 1994
- ISBN10: 0829720391
- Language: Spanish
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City of a Hundred Fires
$20.00 Add to cart“Richard Blanco, a Cuban raised in the United States, records his threefold burdens: learning and adapting to American culture, translating for family and friends, and maintaining his own roots. . . …. [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Blanco, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0822956837
- Language: English
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Making Out in Spanish: (Spanish Phrasebook)
$11.99 Add to cartPlanning a trip to Central America? Studying abroad in Spain? Then you need an authentic guide to Spanish as it’s spoken in everyday situations Whether ordering a meal, bargaining for clothes in a sh… [more below]
- Series: Making Out Books
- Author: Espelleta, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0804851778
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
$8.99 Read more“Fluent and lovely.” — School Library Journal
Sixteen-year-old Sonia Ocampo was born on the night of the worst storm Tres Montes had ever seen. And when the winds mercifully stopped, an unshakable be- Author: Medina, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24, 2013
- ISBN10: 0763664197
- Language: English
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Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
$58.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central America
Birds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, H- Series: Princeton Field Guides #1
- Author: Vallely, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0691138028
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
$30.00 Add to cartIn what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) #61
- Author: Clendinnen, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0521527317
- Language: English
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Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
$24.99 Add to cartRebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late ’60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-and in doing… [more below]
- Author: Veloso, Caetano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812819
- Language: English
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Cuban Privilege
$110.83 Add to cartFor over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal r… [more below]
- Author: Eckstein, Susan Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1108830617
- Language: English
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Los Señores del Narco = Narcoland
$17.95 Add to cartLos se?ores del narco es una descarnada cr?nica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos c?rculos pol?ticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado.
Esta segunda edici?n- Author: Hern?ndez, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1644732068
- Language: Spanish
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The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartFernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room,… [more below]
- Author: Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 158648429X
- Language: English
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Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
$35.00 Add to cartReptiles of Costa Rica, the long-awaited companion to Amphibians of Costa Rica, is the first ever comprehensive field guide to the crocodilians, turtles, lizards, and snakes of Costa Rica. A popular d
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Leenders, Twan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1501739530
- Language: English
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Trilce
$25.00 Add to cartTrilce is one of the greatest monuments of twentieth-century poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as The Waste Land and The Cantos in the Anglophone world. Full of neologisms and obscure symbols,
- Author: Vallejo, Cesar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1848618409
- Language: English
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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
$22.99 Add to cartA passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country’s devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history
Even before the devastating- Author: DuBois, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1250002362
- Language: English
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Amerasia
$40.00 Read moreA connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum
America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagin- Author: Horodowich, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 194213083X
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreFrom Venezuelan reporter Paula Ram? comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin.
In the span of a generation, oil-rich
- Author: Ramón, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036917
- Language: English
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Faith and Freedom in Latin America
$19.50 Add to cartFaith and Freedom in Latin America offers a detailed exploration of the stark violations of religious freedom in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. It uncovers the state’s tactics of surveillance, contro
- Author: Babun, Teo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: October 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0976501651
- Language: English
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City of Memory and Other Poems
$21.95 Add to cartThe leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico’s most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied
- Author: Pacheco, José Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0872863247
- Language: Spanish
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War ha
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826312012
- Language: English
