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“robert ryal miller”

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  • Mexico

    A History

    by Robert Ryal Miller ...
    This book is a skillful synthesis of Mexico's complex and colorful history from pre-Columbian times to the present. Utilizing his many years of research and teaching as well as his personal experience in Mexico, the author incorporates recent archaeological evidence, posits fresh interpretations, and analyzes such current problems as foreign debt, dependency on petroleum exports, and providing ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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  • Havana Nocturne

    How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution

    by T. J. English ...
    In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution & international conflict that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Gangster Warlords

    Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

    by Ioan Grillo ...
    "Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on . . . Americans would do well to read [Gangster Warlords]." --The New York Times Book Review, Editor's ChoiceFrom the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives them, what sustains their power, and how they might be brought down.In a ranch south of Texas, the man ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Exposing the Real Che Guevara

    And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

    by Humberto Fontova ...
    A debunking of liberal myths about one of the most bloodthirsty icons of the twentieth century.Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the mainstream media celebrate Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a saint, a sex symbol, and a selfless martyr. But their ideas about Che—whose face adorns countless T-shirts and posters—are based on the lies of Fidel Castro's murderous dictatorship.Che's hipster fans are classic ... Read more

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  • The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society

    Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture

    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Modern Architecture in Latin America

    Art, Technology, and Utopia

    by Luis E. Carranza, Fernando Luiz Lara ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    **Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language.Runner-up, University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, 2015**Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    by Júnia Ferreira Furtado ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters

    by Maria José Silveira ...
    Translated by Eric M. B. Becker ...
    The history of Brazil from 1500 to the present told through the lives of twenty female descendents. ... Read more

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  • Centering Animals in Latin American History

    Edited by Zeb Tortorici, Martha Few, PhD ...
    Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work through the methodological implications of centering animals within historical narratives, seeking ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Butterflies Will Burn

    Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico

    by Federico Garza Carvajal ...
    As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"—sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and hundreds of sodomites were tortured, ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Kaqchikel Chronicles

    The Definitive Edition

    The collection of documents known as the Kaqchikel Chronicles consists of rare highland Maya texts, which trace Kaqchikel Maya history from their legendary departure from Tollan/Tula through their migrations, wars, the Spanish invasion, and the first century of Spanish colonial rule. The texts represent a variety of genres, including formal narrative, continuous year-count annals, contribution ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Drowning in Laws

    Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture

    by John D. French ...
    Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world’s most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD