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  • Decals

    Complete Early Poems

    Translated by Rachel Galvin, Harris Feinsod ...
    Thirty early poems and twelve watercolors demonstrating the poet’s cosmopolitan wanderlust and growing interest in wordplay and Surrealism. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poetry of the Americas

    From Good Neighbors to Countercultures

    Series series Modernist Literature and Culture
    The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia de Burgos, Ernesto Cardenal, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Allen ... Read more

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    A Brief History

    A concise, readable and thoroughly revised overview of Cuba written by Cubans for anyone interested in quickly understanding the island country’s turbulent history.Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba’s struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the period after Fidel Castro’s decision to step down from office, to ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Golazo!

    The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of HowSoccer Shaped Latin America

    The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading.“Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that soccer plays in Latin America.Andreas Campomar offers readers the definitive history of Latin American soccer from ... Read more

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  • Real Life in Castro's Cuba

    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This new book provides a first-hand, grassroots look at life in Cuba, including very vivid descriptions of its people and places. Real Life in Castro's Cuba illuminates the human face of Cuba, which over the years has largely been hidden in the shadow of Fidel Castro. Real Life in Castro's Cuba is written by Catherine Moses, who lived and worked in Cuba as a press secretary and spokesperson for ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico

    From Chinos to Indians

    Series Book 100 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain's colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought ... Read more

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  • Faces and Masks

    Series Book 2 - Memory of Fire
    "A book as fascinating as the history it relates . . . Galeano is a satirist, realist, and historian." — Los Angeles TimesFor centuries, Europe's imperial powers brutally exploited the peoples and resources of the New World. While soldiers of fortune marched across continents in search of El Dorado, white settlers established plantations and trading posts along the coasts, altering the land and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maras

    Gang Violence and Security in Central America

    Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America's mara gangs, but there have been few clear-eyed analyses of the history, hierarchies, and future of the mara phenomenon. The first book to look specifically at the Central American gang problem by drawing on the perspectives of researchers from different ... Read more

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  • The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America

    From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond

    An in-depth overview of how Catholicism became such a dominant force across America's southern cultural region.One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin America and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on ... Read more

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  • Solidarity Transformed

    Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America

    by Mark S. Anner ...
    Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This experience as a participant observer informs and enlivens Solidarity Transformed, an illustrative, ... Read more

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  • Who Can Stop the Drums?

    Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela

    In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis ... Read more

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  • The Dispossessed

    Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia

    Translated by Daniel Bland ...
    “This book is proof that today’s Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn’t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that ‘the way to understand wasn’t to study people but to listen to them.’ The testimonies that Molano collects are a point of departure for a work that knows how to relate, like few others can, Colombia’s pain in a language that has ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD