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  • 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

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  • The Heart That Bleeds

    Latin America Now

    by Alma Guillermoprieto ...
    An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Camera in the Garden of Eden

    The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

    by Kevin Coleman ...
    In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company’s power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries in which it operated, giving rise to the notion of company-dominated “banana republics.”In A ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Battle of Venezuela

    by Michael McCaughan ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In August 2004, the Venezuelan public came out in record numbers to deliver an overwhelming vote of confidence. After many attempts to unseat him, Hugo Chåvez, the former military man who took the country first by coup and then by ballot, again emerged as the people’s choice. It was, in his words, "a victory for the people of Venezuela."Yet despite Chåvez’s successes, having defended his post in ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson, III ...
    This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • War by Other Means

    Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala

    Edited by Carlota McAllister, Diane M. Nelson ...
    Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence against the Maya, and the dismantling of alternative projects for the future. War by Other Means brings together new essays by leading scholars of Guatemala from a range of geographical backgrounds and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

    by Alejandro L. Madrid ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality within the Western art music tradition elevated Carrillo to iconic status among European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely overlooked by ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Child of El Salvador

    by Penny Raife Durant ...
    1987 - An old woman finds a baby girl abandoned by the road in El Salvador. In the USA, Diane Remer-Thamert mourns the loss of a stillborn girl. Civil war is raging in El Salvador. Diane's husband Glen wants to adopt a child from El Salvador. He meets a Salvadoran attorney whose father can help them. Glen goes to El Salvador to meet the attorney and becomes involved in helping Salvadorans who wish ... Read more

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  • Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810

    by Robert W. Patch ...
    The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch's even-handed study of the repartimiento**de mercancías—the commercial dealings between regional magistrates and the people under their jurisdiction*—*reveals the inner workings ... Read more

    $26.69 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

  • Trade Unionists Against Terror

    Guatemala City, 1954-1985

    by Deborah Levenson-Estrada ...
    Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In Trade Unionists against Terror, she explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms of violent opposition from the state. Levenson-Estrada focuses especially on the case of 400 workers ... Read more

    $28.49 USD