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  • Divergent Modernities

    Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

    by Julio Ramos, Fredric Jameson, Ramón David Saldívar ...
    Translated by John D. Blanco ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available for the first time in English—and now published with new material—Ramos’s study not only offers an analysis of the complex relationships between history ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

    by John Dinges ...
    A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents ( The Miami Herald).Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Faces of Latin America

    Fourth Edition (Revised)

    by Duncan Green ...
    Faces of Latin America has sold more than 50,000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, and is widely considered to be the best available introduction in English to the economies, politics, demography, social structures, environment and cultures of Latin America. Duncan Green and Sue Branford take the reader beyond the conventional media’s fixation on the drug trade, corrupt politicians and ... Read more

    $16.99 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 Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

    by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Based on a True Story

    Latin American History at the Movies

    Edited by Donald F. Stevens ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    Combining history with discussions of dramatic cinema, Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies examines how film has portrayed Latin America from the late fifteenth century to the present. The book opens with an introduction on the visual presentation of the past in the movies, while the rest of the book consists of essays that explore the best feature films on Latin America ... Read more

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  • Beyond Borders

    A History of Mexican Migration to the United States

    by Timothy J. Henderson ...
    Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present day.Considers the issues from the perspectives of both the United States and MexicoOffers a reasoned assessment of the factors that ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Who Can Stop the Drums?

    Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela

    by Sujatha Fernandes ...
    In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis ... Read more

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  • The United States and Latin America in the 1990s

    Beyond the Cold War

    Edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz, Augusto Varas ...
    “A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.” — American Political Science Review“These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American relations very clearly. The authors address their themes with subtlety and insight, in this first overall ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Infrastructures of Race

    Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico

    by Daniel Nemser ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    Winner, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city with a garrison of Spanish troops. But the practice of spatial concentration—gathering people and things in ... Read more

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  • Intimations of Modernity

    Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

    by Louis A. Pérez Jr. ...
    Louis A. Pérez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence. Contributing to the cultural history ... Read more

    $28.49 USD