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  • Civilization

    by Regis Debray ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    American civilization’s dominance over Europe—and what to do about itIn 1900, an American of taste was a European in exile; in 2000, a trendy European is a frustrated American—or one waiting for a visa.Régis Debray explores America’s global cultural ascendancy in this provocative and witty analysis of our contemporary condition. Whereas Europe once foregrounded the importance of time and writing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Conversations with Allende

    Socialism in Chile

    by Régis Debray ...
    Translated by Ben Brewster, Peter Beglan ...
    On the 50th anniversary of the coup that overthrew Allende, a new edition of this classic text on Chile's socialist presidentThe election in Chile of the Marxist leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, to the presidency in October 1970 inaugurated a political situation unique in Latin America and of world-wide significance. Allende's Popular Unity coalition embraced Socialists and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Against Venice

    by Regis Debray ...
    Translated by John Howe ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Numerous writers have made declarations of love to cities, but Against Venice speaks not of love, but of dislike. It is a counterblast to intellectuals who regard Venice as the city where existentialism should be experienced, at parties in the palazzi of friends. Debray criticises this world in a refreshingly irreverent way, luring the traveller back to this seductive city. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Revolution in the Revolution?

    Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America

    by Regis Debray ...
    Translated by Bobbye Ortiz, Gregory Elliott ...
    Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che’s own pamphlets, with which it can compete in terms of historical importance and insight to this day. Lucid and compelling, it spares no personage, no institution, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Helen Graham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the war's complex origins and course, and explores its impact on a personal and international scale. It also provides an ethical reflection on the war in the context of Europe's tumultuous twentieth century, highlighting why it has inspired some of the greatest writers of our time, and how it continues to resonate today in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. Taking account of these divergent interpretations, this Very Short Introduction offers a succinct ... Read more

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  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Short History, 1910-1920

    by Stuart Easterling ...
    "An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!" (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959).The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spanish Civil War

    by Stanley G. Payne ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe. Stanley Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolution and the complex web of republican ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Latin America

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand.Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end ... Read more

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  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Portuguese Revolution

    State and Class in the Transition to Democracy

    by Ronald H. Chilcote ...
    Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well as representative and popular democracy. Exploring ... Read more

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  • The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Vol 1

    by José Peirats Valls ...
    Series series The CNT in the Spanish Revolution
    José Peirats’s La CNT en la revolución española is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when the so-called ‘Generation of ‘36’, Peirats’s own generation, the generation of workers and landless labourers who found it ... Read more

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