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  • Stories of Civil War in El Salvador

    A Battle over Memory

    by Erik Ching ...
    El Salvador’s civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador’s vibrant life-story literature written in the aftermath of this terrible conflict — including memoirs ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Modernizing Minds in El Salvador

    Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980

    by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    In the 1960s and 1970s, El Salvador's reigning military regime instituted a series of reforms that sought to modernize the country and undermine ideological radicalism, the most ambitious of which was an education initiative. It was multifaceted, but its most controversial component was the use of televisions in classrooms. Launched in 1968 and lasting until the eve of civil war in the late 1970s, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Authoritarian El Salvador

    Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940

    by Erik Ching ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could have foreseen the result, the coup led to five decades of uninterrupted military rule, the longest run ... Read more

    $45.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reframing Latin America

    A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    by Erik Ching, Christina Buckley, Angélica Lozano-Alonso ...
    Providing an extensive introduction to cultural studies in general, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting provocative, essential readings from Latin American writers of the last two centuries, Reframing Latin America brings much-needed accessibility to the concepts of cultural studies and postmodernism.From Saussure to semiotics, the authors begin by demystifying ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

    Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador

    by Ana Margarita Gasteazoro ...
    The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience.Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993) was a Salvadoran opposition activist and renowned Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. Tell Mother I’m in Paradise:Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador recounts her extraordinary life story. From a privileged Catholic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Study into the Design of Steerable Microphone Arrays

    by Chiong Ching Lai, Sven Erik Nordholm, Yee Hong Leung ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book covers the design formulations for broadband beamformer targeting nearfield and farfield sources. The book content includes background information on the acoustic environment, including propagation medium, the array geometries, signal models and basic beamformer designs. Subsequently it introduces design formulation for nearfield, farfield and mixed nearfield-farfield beamformers and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador

    A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio

    by Carlos Henriquez Consalvi ...
    Translated by A.L. (Bill) Prince, Charles Leo Nagle ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla organization that challenged the government. The broadcast provided a vital link between combatants in the mountains and the outside world, as well as an alternative to mainstream media reporting. In this first-person account, "Santiago," ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Read more

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  • The Pirates' Who's Who

    Enriched edition. Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers

    by Philip Gosse, Eric Booth ...
    In "The Pirates' Who's Who," Philip Gosse delivers a meticulously researched compendium that intricately details the lives and exploits of some of history's most infamous pirates. With a blend of an informative narrative style and rich biographical sketches, Gosse situates these swashbucklers within the broader context of maritime history during the Golden Age of Piracy. The book's literary ... Read more

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  • Foreign Policy Decision Making Under The Geisel Government

    by Letícia Pinheiro ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    This thesis seeks to provide an explanation for the contents of three foreign policy decisions implemented under the government of General Ernesto Geisel (1974-1979). It does so by analyzing the decision-making process which led Brazil: 1) to abstain in the Meetings of Consultation of American Foreign Ministers for voting the lifting of sanctions against Cuba; 2) to restore diplomatic relations ... Read more

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  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

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