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  • The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico

    World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State

    by Halbert Jones ...
    Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexican shores, the conflict had a significant influence on the country’s political development. Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played an important part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime.Through its ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Governing the North American Arctic

    Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions

    Edited by Dawn Alexandrea Berry, Nigel Bowles, Halbert Jones ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Though it has been home for centuries to indigenous peoples who have mastered its conditions, the Arctic has historically proven to be a difficult region for governments to administer. Extreme temperatures, vast distances, and widely dispersed patterns of settlement have made it impossible for bureaucracies based in far-off capitals to erect and maintain the kind of infrastructure and institutions ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Che Guevara

    A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)

    by Jon Lee Anderson ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Perón

    A Biography

    by Joseph A. Page ...
    This biography recounting the Argentinean president's rise, fall, and remarkable return to power is "a formidable achievement" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Latin America has produced no more remarkable or enduring political figure than Juan Perón. Born to modest circumstances in 1895 and trained in the military, he rose to power during a period of political uncertainty in Argentina. A shrewd ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

    by John Womack ...
    This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by Paul Preston ...
    Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work.Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Companero

    The Life and Death of Che Guevara

    by Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

    Revolution and Counterrevolution

    by Burnett Bolloten ...
    The final, revised, edition of Burnett Bolloten’s exhaustive and indispensable, 50-year-long scholarly study of Republican/revolutionary politics in the Spanish Civil War (“The Grand Camouflage:, 1961; “The Spanish Revolution”, 1979; “The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution”, 1986), covers the entire period of the war from 1936 to 1939. Welsh-born Bolloten, initially a Communist ... Read more

    $5.46 USD

  • The Last Days of the Spanish Republic

    by Paul Preston ...
    Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.On 5 March 1939, the eternally malcontent Colonel Segismundo Casado ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Critical Lives: Che Guevara

    by Eric Luther, Ted Henken ...
    Che Guevara is a legend. The son of Argentine intellectuals, he became first a physician, then a brilliant tactician who helped lead the revolution in Cuba, then an enduring, almost mythical icon of revolutionary struggles all over the world. Though he was killed more than 30 years ago, his name and image remain uniquely compelling and mysterious. What makes him so fascinating? What actions and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Life and Times of Pancho Villa

    by Friedrich Katz ...
    Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood, Villa the womanizer, and Villa as the only foreigner who has attacked the mainland of the United ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Franco

    by Geoffrey Jensen ...
    Before becoming one of the longest-ruling dictators of the twentieth century, Francisco Franco commanded troops in the kinds of wars that have since become all too familiar. He not only waged vicious counterinsurgency campaigns against Muslim warlords and defiant tribes in Morocco, but he also led a multinational force to victory in EuropeÆs ôdress rehearsalö for World War IIùthe Spanish Civil War ... Read more

    $9.95 USD