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  • From the Mines to the Streets

    A Bolivian Activist’s Life

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl, Félix Muruchi ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivia's turbulent history. As a teenager, Félix followed his father ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Evo's Bolivia

    Continuity and Change

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl ...
    In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere’s first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all readers, Evo’s Bolivia not only charts Evo’s rise to power but also offers a history of and context ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Uncomfortable Dead (What's Missing Is Missing)

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    by Subcomandante Marcos, Paco Ignacio Taibo ...
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  • How Wall Street Created a Nation

    The Untold History of the Panama Canal

    by Ovidio Diaz Espino ...
    How Wall Street Created a Nation: The Untold History of the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers the real story of how the United States obtained the rights to build the Canal through financial ... Read more

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    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
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  • Comparative Public Policy in Latin America

    by Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet ...
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  • Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

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  • Cleansing Honor with Blood

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  • Resisting Brazil's Military Regime

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    Praised by his many admirers as a "courageous and fearless" defender of human rights, Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled Sobral's battles with the Vargas government in Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil": Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945), which ... Read more

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