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  • Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

    Edited by Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt ...
    This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Muddied Waters

    Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948

    by Nancy P. Appelbaum, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants rapaciously usurping the lands of indigenous and black communities. Muddied Waters examines both of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Mapping the Country of Regions

    The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia

    by Nancy P. Appelbaum ...
    The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America’s most extensive. The commission’s mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, ... Read more

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    The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

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    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryFinalist for the National Book Award in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award“Grandin tells a gripping story of high hopes and deep failure, a saga that in some ways is a morality tale for the American century.” —The Boston GlobeFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning,... ... Read more

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  • Until Death Do Us Part

    My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia

    by Ingrid Betancourt ...
    Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf of the country's countless children whose lives were being destroyed by extreme poverty and ... Read more

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  • The Condor Years

    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 Accidental President of Brazil

    A Memoir

    by Fernando Henrique Cardoso ...
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Conflicting Missions

    Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

    by Piero Gleijeses ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses’s fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba’s first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964–65 — where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Hybrid Cultures

    Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Translated by Christopher L. Chiappari, Silvia L. Lopez ...
    When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade.Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Mirror

    Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution

    by Ada Ferrer ...
    During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the ... Read more

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  • Cangalli: An American Company Searches for an Ancient River of Gold

    by James E. Bender ...
    Four hundred years of gold mining history took place in an area of the Tipuani Gold District of Bolivia. One small Denver gold mining company was convinced that their 5,000 acre gold claim held evidence of an ancient river system containing large amounts of gold. Modern technology of today was able to remove the gold from this ancient river and the Tipuani River. A theory held in question by ... Read more

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  • The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820

    A Documentary History

    Edited by John F. Chuchiak IV ...
    The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This systematic, comprehensive look at one of the most important Inquisition tribunals in the New World ... Read more

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