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  • Colombia and the United States

    War, Unrest and Destabilization

    by Mario A. Murillo ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia. Beginning with a brief history of Colombia, Murillo analyzes the complex forces driving Colombia's current ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Jungle of Stone

    The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya

    by William Carlsen ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe "masterful chronicle" of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets.Featuring a history and description of the major Maya sites, including **Chichen Itza, Tulum,**Palenque, Uxmal, Copan, and more. Illustrated with a map and more than 100 images.In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Broken Village

    Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras

    by Daniel R. Reichman ...
    In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States. The small village—called here by the pseudonym La Quebrada—was once home to a thriving coffee economy. Recently, it has become dependent on migrants working in distant ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Cinema and Inter-American Relations

    Tracking Transnational Affect

    by Adrián Pérez Melgosa ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of inter-American narratives in films from across the continent, highlights the social effects of the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Confronting the American Dream

    Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule

    by Michel Gobat, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U.S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tratado de las idolatrías, supersticiones y costumbres

    by Jacinto de la Serna ...
    En el Tratado de las idolatrías, supersticiones y costumbres Jacinto de la Serna responde a la preocupación de la Iglesia mexicana del siglo XVII, ante la respuesta poco favorable de los indígenas hacia el catolicismo.Para Serna era esencial sacar a la luz informes sobre las idolatrías y hechicerías que se daban entre los indígenas para instruirlos en la fe católica. Serna da a conocer lo que los ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Our Elders Teach Us

    Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

    by Allan Burns, David Carey Jr. ...
    Series series Contemporary American Indian Studies
    Where Maya voices reclaim their history and reshape our understanding of the past.Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research to construct a history of the last 130 years in Guatemala from the perspective of present-day Mayan people. His research took place over five years, including intensive language study, four ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Translated Christianities

    Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts

    by Mark Z. Christensen ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers with English translations of a variety of Nahuatl and Maya religious texts. It pulls Nahuatl and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Cuba

    by Arthur D. Hall ...
    Such was Columbus' opinion of Cuba, just after he first beheld it, and, after the lapse of four hundred years, the words, making due allowance for the hyperbole of enthusiasm, still hold good. And this, too, in spite of all the trials and tribulations which the fair "Pearl of the Antilles" has been forced to undergo at the hands of her greedy and inhuman masters. ... Read more

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  • Who Is Rigoberta Menchu?

    by Greg Grandin ...
    In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography—I, Rigoberta Menchú—transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought its author international renown. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. At that point, she became the target of historians seeking to discredit her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Human Rights in the Maya Region

    Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements

    by Rodolfo Stavenhagen ...
    In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Pulltrouser Swamp

    Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize

    Edited by Peter D. Harrison, B. L. Turner ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Among Mesoamericanists, the agricultural basis of the ancient Maya civilization of the Yucatan Peninsula has been an important topic of research—and controversy. Interest in the agricultural system of the Maya greatly increased as new discoveries showed that the lowland Maya were not limited to slash-and-burn technology, as had been previously believed, but used a variety of more sophisticated ... Read more

    $26.99 USD