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  • Allies

    Spain and the American Revolution

    by Rafael Torres, Jordi Bru, Guillermo Fesser ...
    Jordi Bru, the world's leading photographer of historical reenactments, and Rafael Torres, one of the foremost experts on 18th-century Spain, team up once again in a superb and surprising work: Allies. Through the lens and the pen, they commemorate 250 years of a decisive chapter in History: Spain's indispensable participation in the American Revolution. A book that unfolds a deeply immersive ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain

    by Rafael Torres Sánchez ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view of the limitations of Spain's absolutist state, and this historical school of thought presents the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century

    by Rafael Torres Sánchez ...
    Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

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  • Open Veins of Latin America

    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

  • Argentina

    A Modern History

    by Jill Hedges ...
    In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well below its regional neighbours such as Chile. At the same time, despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic divisions, Argentina has failed to create an over-arching post-independence national ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Short History of Brazil

    From Pre-Colonial Peoples to Modern Economic Miracle

    by Gordon Kerr ...
    Series series Short History
    Host of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, the fifth largest country in the world is the perfect topic for the next title in the Short History seriesDiscovered by Portuguese sailor and explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral more than 500 years ago, Brazil's history since then has been turbulent, blighted by rebellion, cruelty, dictatorship, and poverty. But, it is also a vibrant, exciting, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise History of Mexico

    by Brian R. Hamnett ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The second edition of this accessible study of Mexico includes two new features: an examination of cultural developments since Independence from Spain in 1821 and a discussion of contemporary issues up to the time of publication. Several new plates with captions expand the thematic coverage in the book. The updated edition examines the administration of Vicente Fox, who came to power with the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul

    by Michael Reid ...
    The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America by The Economist editor and author of Brazil.Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa's moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mexico

    Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor

    by Ramon Ruiz ...
    Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Conflicts and Conspiracies

    Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Mexican Heartland

    How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000

    by John Tutino ...
    A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus