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  • Dictatorship across Borders

    Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War

    by Mila Burns ...
    This book offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean coup, highlighting Brazil’s pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of South America during the Cold War. Shifting the focus from the United States to interregional dynamics, Mila Burns argues that Brazil was instrumental in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the establishment of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.Drawing on ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Other Fridas

    The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists

    by Luciana Namorato, Debora Thome, João Nemi Neto, Yamila Azize-Vargas, Mila Burns, Ben De Witte, Lorna Dillon, Maria Elva Echenique0, Luciana Carvalho Fonseca1, Gabriela Germaná2, Ann Marie Leimer3, Andrea Lepage4, Elvira Aballi Morell5, Andrea Villa Ruiz6, Rosita Scerbo7, Alysa Schroff8, Dennys Silva-Reis9, Sandra Sousa0, Anastasiya Stoyneva1 ...
    The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different countries, and seeks to understand their artistic contributions and their complex lives. Frida Kahlo is one of the most recognizable women artists of the Western world and an icon of feminism. Yet, Latin America has produced many other women artists ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro

    by Professor or Dr. Mila Burns ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Brazil
    More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the "Opening" that put Brazil on a path toward democratic governance), Sorriso Negro reflects the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • Puerto Rico

    A National History

    by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo ...
    A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago’s people while offering a lens ... Read more

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  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Spain

    From Dictatorship to Democracy

    by Javier Tusell ...
    Series Book 14 - A History of Spain
    This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century.A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present dayTusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Sandinista

    Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

    by Matilde Zimmermann ...
    “A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITEDSandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post–1959 ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Sandinista Revolution

    A Global Latin American History

    by Mateo Jarquín ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past.Mateo Jarquín recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Beatriz Allende

    A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

    by Tanya Harmer ...
    This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977)—revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende—portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation drove political campaigns, university reform, public health programs, internationalist guerrilla insurgencies, and government strategies. Centering ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution

    How the Working Class Shaped the Guerillas’ Victory

    by Stephen Cushion ...
    Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerillas. In this unique and stimulating book, Stephen Cushion turns the conventional wisdom on its head, and argues that the Cuban working class played a much more decisive role in the Revolution’s outcome than previously ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Fidel Castro

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 47 - Critical Lives
    The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is one of the most written-about men in the world today. Most approaches to his life are either glowing hagiographies, or critical rants in which he is portrayed as a dictator who has kept the island of Cuba under his heel. By contrast, Nick Caistor brings together personal details and a discussion of the ideas driving Castro throughout his life; his ultimate ... Read more

    $18.09 USD