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  • The Company They Kept

    Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960

    by Lara Putnam ...
    In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

    Edited by Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lara Putnam ...
    This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven processes through which ideas of honor and status came to depend more on achievements such as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Radical Moves

    Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

    by Lara Putnam ...
    In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Caribbean Military Encounters

    Edited by Shalini Puri, Lara Putnam ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending militarization per se, this book focuses attention on how ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500–2000

    Edited by Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Karen Racine ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Three Nights In Havana

    Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World

    by Robert Wright ...
    On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this ... Read more

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  • City of Inmates

    Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965

    by Kelly Lytle Hernández ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Zapatista Encuentro

    Documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism

    by Zapatistas ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    "Why is everyone so quiet? Is this the democracy you wanted?" So ask the Zapatistas, the group of indigenous Mexicans who, on January 1, 1994, mounted a rebellion against the implementation of NAFTA, political corruption, and the slow, unreported genocide of indigenous people worldwide. As the group expressed their demands and revealed their tactics, it quickly became obvious that they were less ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Central America's Forgotten History

    Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia

    by David Vine ...
    The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport the base was a little-known launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and may house a top-secret CIA prison where terror suspects ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

    by Geo Maher ...
    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

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  • Islands of Resistance

    Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy

    by Mario Murillo ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.: the limited clemency granted by then-President Clinton to eleven ... Read more

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