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  • Repression And Resistance

    The Struggle For Democracy In Central America

    by Edelberto Torres-rivas ...
    This book summarizes the multiple origins of the crisis that Central Americans are suffering today. It focuses on an analysis of the revolutionary popular movements as a form of social movement capable of joining together a diversity of class-based groups. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • History and Society in Central America

    by Edelberto Torres Rivas ...
    Translated by Douglass Sullivan-González ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    First published in Chile in 1969 as Interpretación del desarrollo social centroamericano, this classic is now available in English. The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s.Using a dependency framework, but not limited by it, Torres ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Globalization on the Ground

    Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development

    by Christopher Chase-Dunn, John A. Booth, Stephen G. Bunker, A Douglas Kincaid, Susan Manning, Alejandro Portes, Julia Richards, Michael Richards0, Gert Rosenthal1, José Serech2, Edelberto Torres3, Kay B. Warren4, William I. Robinson5 ...
    This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change. The chapters in this book are written by some of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Man Who Loved Dogs

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    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    "In this ambitious, at times gripping work of historical fiction, Padura re-creates the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico." ― Foreign AffairsIn The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.The story revolves around Iván ... Read more

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  • Midnight in Mexico

    A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness

    by Alfredo Corchado ...
    Named one of the best true crime books of all time by TimeIn the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in ... Read more

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  • Havana Gold

    The Havana Quartet

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
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    Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien

    A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina

    by Brian Winter ...
    After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around them collapses, gripped by inflation, street riots, and revolution.In a book that is part travelogue ... Read more

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  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rolena Adorno ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Program of Economic Reactivation for the Benefit of the People 1980

    Programa de Reactivación Económica en Beneficio del Pueblo para 1980

    by Ministry of Planning of the Government of National Reconstruction of Nicaragua, Paul Richards, Nina Serrano ...
    The 1980 Nicaraguan Program of Economic Reactivation for the Benefit of the People is a bilingual (English/Spanish) historic document from the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution that offers a detailed program to address economic inequality that today has spun out of control around the world. It analyses the economic realities of Nicaragua in 1980, including the legacy of Somoza’s dictatorship along ... Read more

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  • Tratado de las idolatrías, supersticiones y costumbres

    by Jacinto de la Serna ...
    En el Tratado de las idolatrías, supersticiones y costumbres Jacinto de la Serna responde a la preocupación de la Iglesia mexicana del siglo XVII, ante la respuesta poco favorable de los indígenas hacia el catolicismo.Para Serna era esencial sacar a la luz informes sobre las idolatrías y hechicerías que se daban entre los indígenas para instruirlos en la fe católica. Serna da a conocer lo que los ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers

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    Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change ... Read more

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