Latin America
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- Language: English
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Samba
$20.00 Add to cartTo the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain–a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diam… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Guillermoprieto, Alma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 1991
- ISBN10: 067973256X
- Language: English
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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
$27.95 Add to cartOn the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Fi
- Author: Denton, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 163149807X
- Language: English
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History of Mexico: A Captivating Guide to Mexican History, Starting from the Rise of Tenochtitlan through Maximilian’s Empire to the Mexi
$15.97 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Mexico, then keep reading…
Before the modern country was born in 1821, the territory that today comprises 32 states and few small islands was inhabi
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1647486858
- Language: English
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For Such a Time as This: Flavors and Recipes from My Honduras
$25.00 Add to cartWhen Heidy was just a little girl, she started learning about baking from her grandmother Andrea.Her bread was legendary in the small village and Heidy would go door-to-door selling it.
If Heidy closes
- Author: Kohnle, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: February 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1942168322
- Language: English
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Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/O Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
$31.99 Add to cartForeword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist
Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new.
For five hundred years, Latina
- Author: Romero, Robert Chao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0830852859
- Language: English
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The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas.
This book is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt’s Good
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168802
- Language: English
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Historia de México: Una guÃa fascinante de la historia de México y la Revolución Mexicana
$29.99 Add to cart2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro
- La historia de México: Una GuÃa Fascinante de la Historia Mexicana, Desde el Ascenso de Tenochtitlan y el Imperio de Maximiliano hasta la Revolución Mexicana y el
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 30 2020
- ISBN10: 163716047X
- Language: Spanish
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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartNo gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus’s ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 – an event that paved the way for the conquest of a ‘New World’. The accounts … [more below]
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1607966182
- Language: English
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Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76
$23.00 Read moreA Cold War-era study of Latin American anarchism in action.
Araiza Kokinis’s study of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) broadens our understanding of the Cold War-era political landscape beyond- Author: Araiza Kokinis, Troy Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355002
- Language: English
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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
$26.95 Add to cartnew in paperback
Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the… [more below]- Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
- Author: Wilkinson, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0822333686
- Language: English
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Unaccompanied
$17.00 Add to cartThis gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings.
- Author: Zamora, Javier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1556595115
- Language: English
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico
The Underground Railroad to the North promise- Author: Baumgartner, Alice L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541617762
- Language: English
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Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas (New & Updated Edition)
$22.00 Read moreAn encounter between Emory Douglas of the Black Panthers and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities helps us understand the role of revolutionary art in times of distress.
- Author: Léger, Marc James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173555
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$5.60 Add to cartGuerrilla Warfare is an epoch-making book by Che Guevara aimed to inspire thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries worldwide. Guevara believed that in the world of totalitarian regimes, wh… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 03 2022
- ISBN10: 8027343070
- Language: English
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El dragon y la ceiba. Chinos en el pais de los mayas. Siglos XIX a XX
$51.98 Add to cartComo en una novela de aventuras y sufrimientos, un grupo de chinos fue llevado a la peninsula de Yucatan navegando 20.000 kilometros a vela en el siglo XIX.
Su liberacion los unio a los mayas rebeldes
- Author: Ramirez Carrillo, Luis Alfonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: November 19 2021
- ISBN10: 162915489X
- Language: Spanish
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Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico
$27.95 Add to cart“Mexico’s history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and spectacular cultural achievements. A fascinating story.”–Christian Science Monitor
There ha- Author: Fehrenbach, T. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: March 22 1995
- ISBN10: 0306806282
- Language: English
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The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War
$39.95 Add to cartThe Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central q… [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640121528
- Language: English
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.95 Add to cartSet in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, fro
- Author: Delgado-Kling, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1682194477
- Language: English
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Mezcal: The History, Craft & Cocktails of the World’s Ultimate Artisanal Spirit
$26.99 Add to cartIn Mezcal, two-time James Beard Award-winning author Emma Janzen explores what sets this cousin of tequila apart from the rest of the pack.
*Nominated for the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award in- Author: Janzen, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0760352615
- Language: English
