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  • The Weak and the Powerful

    Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World

    by Jonathan C. Brown ...
    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus through the canal. For nearly a century, the United States occupied and controlled the Panama Canal Zone and its shipping operations. In 1999, control was passed to Panama’s Canal Authority. This peaceful transfer was a result of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979

    Edited by Jonathan C. Brown ...
    The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays ÆMDNMØin this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and railway strikes in Mexico, the attempted revolution in Guatemala, railway nationalization and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Jonathan C. Brown, Alan Knight ...
    Series series LLILAS Symposia on Latin America Series
    Mexico's petroleum industry has come to symbolize the very sovereignty of the nation itself. Politicians criticize Pemex, the national oil company, at their peril, and President Salinas de Gortari has made clear that the free trade negotiations between Mexico and the United States will not affect Pemex's basic status as a public enterprise. How and why did the petroleum industry gain such ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Cuba’s Revolutionary World

    by Jonathan C. Brown ...
    On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time “the real Revolution” had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s words proved prophetic not only for ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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    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

  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Short History, 1910-1920

    by Stuart Easterling ...
    "An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!" (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959).The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Julia E Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Fidel Castro: My Life

    A Spoken Autobiography

    by Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro ...
    The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • Populista

    The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman

    by Will Grant ...
    'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.' FIDEL CASTROFor more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Evo Morales

    The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia

    by Martín Sivak ...
    The fascinating Bolivian president Evo Morales is vying with the brash and provocative leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to be the most influential figure in South American politics today. Since coming into office four years ago, Morales has been intensely critical of the United States, speaking out against the drug war at the United Nations and implementing socialist programs at home, including ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War

    by Tanya Harmer ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende’s democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende’s left-wing government while Chilean opposition forces mobilized against him. The result was a battle for Chile that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD