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  • Alcohol in Latin America

    A Social and Cultural History

    Edited by Gretchen Pierce, Maria Áurea Toxqui ...
    Aguardente, chicha, pulque, vino—no matter whether it’s distilled or fermented, alcohol either brings people together or pulls them apart. Alcohol in Latin America is a sweeping examination of the deep reasons why. This book takes an in-depth look at the social and cultural history of alcohol and its connection to larger processes in Latin America. Using a painting depicting a tavern as a metaphor ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • Perla

    by Carolina De Robertis ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Blogging the Revolution

    Caracas Chronicles and the Hugo Chávez Era

    by Francisco Toro, Juan Cristobal Nagel ...
    For more than ten years, Caracas Chronicles (CaracasChronicles.com) has distilled Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela for English-speaking readers, providing both context and a home for lively discussion. This compilation by its editors, Toro and Nagel, brings together their best work.With Hugo Chávez's passing, Venezuela enters a new era. The time has come to look back on a decade of unprecedented upheavals. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America

    by Michael Reid ...
    The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America—now fully revised and updated.Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's bestselling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid suggests that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Latino History And Culture

    by D.H. Figueredo ...
    You’re no idiot, of course. You know there are more people from Latin America living in the United States than ever before. And you’re aware that Latinos come from several countries, including Cuba, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.But you don’t have to south of the border to explore the rich Latino heritage. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Latino History and Culture offers an exhaustive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Territories of Difference

    Place, Movements, Life, Redes

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier

    by Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Helen Lane ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. He was exiled to Spain--only to escape and spend ten years traveling throughout Europe, as none other than a French priest. So began the grand adventure of Fray Servando's life, and of this gripping memoir. Here is an invitation hard for any reader to resist: a glimpse of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sinfonia de Birimbau

    Culture of Capoeira in Classical Music

    by Jeronimo Santos Da Silva, Mestre Jeronimo ...
    Series Book 1 - English Version
    My new Music Method features crucial updates to improve the creation of classical scores and teaches you how to best employ the music clefs. I confirm the worth of the new Birimbau (orucungo, gunga, berimbau, etc.) and percussion score with original songs, inspired by the creative practice of Capoeira, MPB, classical music, rock and jazz.The book provides ideas and solutions to enhance family and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

    by Eric Williams ...
    Series series World Social Change
    In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • PERE BOADAS

    Pioneer of the anarcho-syndicalist action groups in 1920s Barcelona

    by Josep A Carreras ...
    Boadas i Rivas was born in Barcelona in 1894 and died in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1972. Together with Medir Mart and Pere Vandellós, he was one of the leaders of the first anarcho-syndicalist action group organised in Catalonia from late 1917 onwards, before the six-year period of “pistolerismo” erupted in Barcelona. He can, therefore, be regarded as the pioneer of those Barcelona anarcho ... Read more

    $2.68 USD

  • Do the Poor Count?

    Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty

    by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson ...
    Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between ... Read more

    $29.69 USD