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  • Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay

    Honor and Egocentrism

    by James Schofield Saeger ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The first serious biography of Francisco Solano López in English for decades, this richly researched book tells the dramatic story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler. Despite the heroic stature he gained after his death, López was a monumentally flawed leader who made the disastrous decisions in 1864 and 1865 to invade Paraguay's powerful neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, initiating the most ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Empire's Workshop

    Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

    by Greg Grandin ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    “A pathbreaking work about how policies forged in blood and fire in Latin America were then exported to every corner of the globe. This brilliant and up-to-the-minute new edition is absolutely crucial to understanding our perilous present.” —Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineEmpire's Workshop is the classic analysis of Latin America’s role as proving ground for imperial US strategies and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Condor Years

    How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

    by John Dinges ...
    A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents ( The Miami Herald).Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise History of Brazil

    by Boris Fausto, Sergio Fausto ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Fausto, a prominent ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Aztec Thought and Culture

    A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind

    Translated by Jack Emory Davis ...
    by Miguel León-Portilla ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems of education, and diverse political and social organization.The rich documentation concerning ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • In Darkness and Secrecy

    The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia

    by Johannes Wilbert, Silvia M. Vidal ...
    In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark shamans are, in many Amazonian cultures, quite different ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Real Life in Castro's Cuba

    by Catherine Moses ...
    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

    $34.99 USD

  • The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

    by Eric Williams ...
    Series series World Social Change
    In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Latin American Politics

    An Introduction

    by David Close ...
    Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Conquest, Tribute and Trade

    How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization

    by Howard J. Erlichman ...
    This new edition of Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization (2016) has been revised to improve the clarity of the text, maps and end-notes. The book itself attempts to explain the birth of globalization in a new way and address three interrelated developments which have been under-analyzed, pigeon-holed or even ignored.First, how and why the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Art of Transition

    Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

    by Francine Masiello, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Geographies of Social Movements

    Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space

    by Ulrich Oslender ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi, Oslender examines how the work of local community councils, which have organized around newly granted ethnic and land ... Read more

    $25.99 USD