Latin America
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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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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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How to Know You’re Dreaming When You’re Dreaming, lesson one
$15.00 Add to cartAngelica Maria Barraza Tran’s debut collection, How to Know You’re Dreaming When You’re Dreaming, Lesson One, articulates a practice of queer-of-color worldmaking in which the lyric strives to bridge
- Author: Barraza Tran, Angelica Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1955969140
- Language: English
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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
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Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado
$16.99 Add to cart“Here is a voice seldom heard, the voice of Latin America’s majority, those who bear the burdens of society. If we are to understand Honduras, Central America, or, for that matter, Latin America, we m
- Author: Benjamin, Medea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 1989
- ISBN10: 006097205X
- Language: English
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The Spanish Conquest of the Americas: An Enthralling Overview of the Conquistadors and Their Conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires
$26.99 Add to cartThe Spanish conquest of the Americas is a pivotal part of the history of colonization.
Christopher Columbus’s discovery, albeit accidental, of a new landmass turned the world upside-down. Beginning in
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651927
- Language: English
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
$35.00 Add to cartThis book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestiz… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies #105
- Author: Vinson III, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1107670810
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$26.95 Read moreChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963-64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and culture of
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299787
- Language: English
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Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America
$16.95 Add to cartChildress takes the reader on journeys deep into deadly jungles, windswept mountains, and scorching deserts in search of lost civilisations and ancient mysteries. Explore stone cities high in mountain… [more below]
- Series: Lost Cities Series
- Author: Childress, David Hatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: October 03 1995
- ISBN10: 093281302X
- Language: English
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The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartThe Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in Englis… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0822353601
- Language: English
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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartHemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a d… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Lambert, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0822352680
- Language: English
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The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$31.95 Add to cartThe Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos M?xicos-the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the tra… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Joseph, Gilbert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 808
- Publish Date: January 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0822330423
- Language: English
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The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations
$43.50 Add to cartIn this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, e… [more below]
- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Berdan, Frances F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1789143608
- Language: English
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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
$42.00 Read moreIn this long-awaited study, Claudio Lomnitz tells an unprecedented story about the experience and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores M
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 598
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408437
- Language: English
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Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
$24.95 Read moreThe definitive history of drug cartels, this “investigative magnum opus” takes readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times)
The product of five years’ investig- Author: Hernández, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1781682968
- Language: English
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DÃganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraÃso: Memorias de una prisionera polÃtica
$17.99 Add to cartDÃganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraÃso recoge las memorias de una joven salvadoreña de espÃritu curioso y rebelde, que la lleva a recorrer el mundo. Al regresar a su patria, se inserta en las
- Author: Gasteazoro, Ana Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736231650
- Language: Spanish
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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
$50.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conve
- Author: Rivera, Luis N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0664253679
- Language: English
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Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
$24.95 Add to cartAn English translation of Chapa’s Historia de Nuevo Le, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Winner, Presidio La Bah僘 Award, Sons of the Republic- Author: Chapa, Juan Bautista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0292717954
- Language: English
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Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico
$17.95 Read moreThis provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. The saints are now honored as martyrs by the Catholic Ch
- Author: Murphy, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1621642623
- Language: English
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The Conquest of New Spain
$22.99 Add to cartVivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma’s doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes … [more below]
- Author: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Diaz Del Casti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 28 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961806
- Language: English
