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  • Mozambique

    From Colonialism To Revolution, 1900-1982

    by Barbara Isaacman, Allen Isaacman ...
    Drawing on oral interviews as well as written primary sources, the authors of this book focus on the changing and complex Mozambican reality. They focus their study on the changing and complex Mozambican reality to avoid depicting the colonized people as passive victims. . ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Mozambique’s Samora Machel

    A Life Cut Short

    by Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    The precipitous rise and controversial fall of a formidable African leader.Samora Machel (1933–1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his people through a war against their Portuguese colonists and became the first president of the People’s Republic of Mozambique.Machel’s military successes against a colonial regime backed by South Africa, Rhodesia, the United States, and its NATO allies ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Elusive Histories

    Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900–1980

    by Allen F. Isaacman, Joy M. Chadya, Barbara S. Isaacman ...
    Series Book 78 - New African Histories
    At the heart of Elusive Histories is a long-neglected story of the clandestine journeys of Mozambican migrant laborers and their families to Rhodesia. Drawing from oral histories, court records, archives, newspapers, and popular magazines, the authors chronicle Mozambican migration, work experiences, and settlement in Rhodesia. Thousands of men, women, and children traveled long distances, often ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development

    Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007

    by Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman ...
    Series Book 20 - New African Histories
    Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world’s fifth-largest mega-dam. Portuguese colonial ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Distant Neighbors

    A Portrait of the Mexicans

    by Alan Riding ...
    A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Central America's Forgotten History

    Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • INSIDE CENTRAL AMERICA

    The Essential Facts Past and Present on El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Since 1979, United States policy in Central America has been based on an assumption that revolutionary movements led by Marxists must represent a serious threat to U.S. interests and security. On this point, the difference between liberals and conservatives is merely one of emphasis or accent.Such an assumption is not shared by most governments in Western Europe and Latin America. In part, these ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Country for All

    An Immigrant Manifesto

    by Jorge Ramos ...
    For decades, fixing the United States’ broken immigration system has been one of the most urgent challenges facing our country, and time and time again, politicians have passed the buck. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising around the country, and presidential elections on the horizon, it’s no surprise immigration reform is on every candidate’s agenda. While some candidates offer viable solutions, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Brazil

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Riordan Roett ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia,' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Beyond Borders

    A History of Mexican Migration to the United States

    by Timothy J. Henderson ...
    Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present day.Considers the issues from the perspectives of both the United States and MexicoOffers a reasoned assessment of the factors that ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Cuban Revolution

    by Luis Fernando Ayerbe ...
    For more than fifty years, the revolutionary experience in Cuba was the stage for such re markable personalities as Che Guevara and for dramatic events like the missile crisis. All these 20th century historic icons are interwoven with the deep internal restructuring of the Cuban economy and society, and the related challenge to the United States' prior unopposed hegemony over Latin America. The ... Read more

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  • Nicaragua

    Emerging From the Shadow of the Eagle

    by Thomas W. Walker ...
    Nicaragua: Emerging from the Shadow of the Eagle details the country's unique history, culture, economics, politics, and foreign relations. Its historical coverage considers Nicaragua from pre-Columbian and colonial times as well as during the nationalist liberal era, the U.S. Marine occupation, the Somoza dictatorship, the Sandinista revolution and government, the conservative restoration after ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD