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  • Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree

    Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949

    by Erick D. Langer ...
    Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Hemispheric Indigeneities

    Native Identity and Agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada

    Edited by Miléna Santoro, Erick D. Langer ...
    Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s major regions of indigenous peoples.Although the terms indio, indigène, and indian only exist (in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America

    by Erick D. Langer ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    The efforts of Indians in Latin America have gained momentum and garnered increasing attention in the last decade as they claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process. This issue is of rising importance as ecological concerns and autochtonous movements gain a foothold in Latin America, transforming the political landscape into one in which multiethnic ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Pretty Modern

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  • That Infernal Little Cuban Republic

    The United States and the Cuban Revolution

    by Lars Schoultz ...
    Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    by Miguel Tinker Salas ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and relations have been strained ever since. In this concise, accessible addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know® series, ... Read more

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  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
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