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  • 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

    $34.79 USD

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  • Golazo!

    The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of HowSoccer Shaped Latin America

    by Andreas Campomar ...
    The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading.“Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that soccer plays in Latin America.Andreas Campomar offers readers the definitive history of Latin American soccer from ... Read more

    $4.99 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

    $19.49 USD

  • Freedom's Mirror

    Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution

    by Ada Ferrer ...
    During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • Cortés and Montezuma

    by Maurice Collis ...
    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Imprisoned in the Caribbean

    The 1942 German U-Boat Blockade

    by Ligia T. Domenech Ph.D. ...
    Winston Churchill recognized in his memoirs: The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.His fears would be realized in the Caribbean: By the end of the war, the Germans had sunk four hundred merchant ships in the Caribbean while only losing seventeen U-boats in what was called Operation Neuland.Begun in 1942, the campaign sought to cut the supply lines from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Writing across Cultures

    Narrative Transculturation in Latin America

    by Angel Rama ...
    Translated by David Frye ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise
    Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985

    by Thomas E. Skidmore ...
    The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil, offers the first analysis of more than two decades of military rule, from the overthrow of João ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • An Aqueous Territory

    Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World

    by Ernesto Bassi Arevalo ...
    In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives bounded by geopolitical borders. Rather, the cross-border activities of sailors, traders, revolutionaries, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • American Crossings

    Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere

    Edited by Maiah Jaskoski, Arturo C. Sotomayor, Harold A. Trinkunas ...
    Who—and what—moves from one country to another has real implications for security studies, international relations, and the ideal of democracy.In summer 2014, US agencies responsible for the border with Mexico were overwhelmed by tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arriving from Central America. Unprepared to address this unexpected kind of migrant, the US government deployed troops to ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Disciplinary Conquest

    U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945

    by Ricardo D. Salvatore ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In Disciplinary Conquest Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the origin story of Latin American studies by tracing the discipline's roots back to the first half of the twentieth century. Salvatore focuses on the work of five representative U.S. scholars of South America—historian Clarence Haring, geographer Isaiah Bowman, political scientist Leo Rowe, sociologist Edward Ross, and archaeologist Hiram ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Garcilaso Inca de la Vega

    An American Humanist, A Tribute to José Durand

    Edited by José Anadón ...
    Sixteenth-century historian Garcilaso Inca de la Vega had a unique view of the ancient Inca Empire and the Americas. A Peruvian mestizo who emigrated to Spain, he was the first writer to envision Latin America as a multiethnic continent, and he advanced a humanist interpretation of New World history that continues to enrich our appreciation of that era.Widely read and translated, Garcilaso is a ... Read more

    $26.59 USD