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  • The Japanese in Latin America

    by Daniel M. Masterson ...
    Series series Asian American Experience
    Latin America is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed scholarship with rich personal histories, Daniel M. Masterson, with the assistance of Sayaka Funada-Classen, presents the first comprehensive study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole.When the United States and Canada tightened their immigration restrictions in 1907, Japanese contract ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Latin America During World War II

    by Andrew Lefebvre, Daniel M. Masterson, Graeme Mount, Jorge Ortiz Sotelo, Orlando J. Perez, Eric Paul Roorda, David Sheinin, Joseph Smith, Monica A. Rankin, George M. Lauderbaugh ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime. Each country responded to World War II according to its own national interests, which often conflicted with those of the Allies, including the United States. The contributors systematically consider how each country dealt with commonly shared ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Midnight in Mexico

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  • 2012 and the End of the World

    The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse

    by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari ...
    Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon. They begin by ... Read more

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  • American History

    Little Known Secrets That Everyone Should Know About The 22nd Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Boston Tea Party, The Civil War, The Cold War, The Declaration of Independence and More

    by Jerry Johnson ...
    In this compelling block-buster guide discover hard-hitting facts about American History, The 22nd Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Boston Tea Party, The Civil War, The Cold War, The Declaration of Independence and more. ... Read more

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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

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  • A Radical Faith

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    by Eileen Markey ...
    On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The women themselves ... Read more

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  • For All of Humanity

    Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

    by Martha Few ...
    Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public ... Read more

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  • George Price - A Life Revealed: The Authorized Biography

    by Godfrey P. Smith ...
    Once described as the ‘prime minister who wanted to be a priest’, George Price was one of the most enigmatic and secretive leaders of the modern Caribbean and Central American sub-region. Little is known of his personal life and his long political career was often mired in controversy. Now, his autobiography George Price: A Life Revealed, written by a former political acolyte, Godfrey Smith, ... Read more

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    Edited by Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, Daniel Feierstein ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
    This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States’ hegemonic position on the continent.Using case studies based on the regimes of Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay, this book shows how U.S foreign policy – far from promoting long term political stability and democratic institutions – has ... Read more

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