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“kajsa norman”

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  • Sweden's Dark Soul

    The Unravelling of a Utopia

    by Kajsa Norman ...
    Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation. Sweden's elites shirked responsibility and rushed to discredit him. Although Sweden boasts the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Hero's Curse

    The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela

    by Kajsa Norman ...
    A Hero's Curse is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simón Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez. For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolívar, to stir popular support. While Bolívar's heroic struggle helped free a continent, his affinity for dictatorial rule ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Bridge Over Blood River

    The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners

    by Kajsa Norman ...
    Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, and its history, over a series of December 16ths, from the Battle of Blood River in ... Read more

    $16.19 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

    $15.89 USD

  • How Wall Street Created a Nation

    The Untold History of the Panama Canal

    by Ovidio Diaz Espino ...
    How Wall Street Created a Nation: The Untold History of the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers the real story of how the United States obtained the rights to build the Canal through financial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution

    The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War

    by Deb Olin Unferth ...
    Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.Despite their earnest commitment to a myriad of revolutionary causes and to each other, the couple find themselves unwanted, unhelpful, and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • INSIDE CENTRAL AMERICA

    The Essential Facts Past and Present on El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Since 1979, United States policy in Central America has been based on an assumption that revolutionary movements led by Marxists must represent a serious threat to U.S. interests and security. On this point, the difference between liberals and conservatives is merely one of emphasis or accent.Such an assumption is not shared by most governments in Western Europe and Latin America. In part, these ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Varieties of Liberalism in Central America

    Nation-States as Works in Progress

    by Forrest D. Colburn, Arturo Cruz S. ...
    Why do some countries progress while others stagnate? Why does adversity strengthen some countries and weaken others? Indeed, in this era of unprecedented movement of people, goods, and ideas, just what constitutes a nation-state? Forrest Colburn and Arturo Cruz suggest how fundamental these questions are through an exploration of the evolution of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Quiet Revolutionaries

    Seeking Justice in Guatemala

    by Frank M. Afflitto, Paul Jesilow ...
    The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the country to escape the violence. Yet, at the same moment, a popular movement for justice brought together unlikely bands of behind-the-scenes heroes, blurring ethnic, geographic, and even class lines.The Quiet ... Read more

    $23.79 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

  • Women Legislators in Central America

    Politics, Democracy, and Policy

    by Michelle A. Saint-Germain, Cynthia Chavez Metoyer ...
    During the years between 1980 and 1999, in the midst of war and economic crisis, a record number of women were elected to national legislatures in Central American republics. Can quantitative increases in the presence of elected women in Central America produce qualitative political changes?In this detailed study, Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Cynthia Chavez Metoyer explore the reasons for this ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Art Museums of Latin America

    Structuring Representation

    Edited by Michele Greet, Gina McDaniel Tarver ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
    Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ... Read more

    $64.99 USD