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  • Unexpected Routes

    Refugee Writers in Mexico

    by Tabea Alexa Linhard ...
    Unexpected Routes chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II: Cuban-born Spanish writer Silvia Mistral, German-born Spanish writer Max Aub, German writer Anna Seghers, German author Ruth Rewald, Swiss-born political activist, photographer, and ethnographer Gertrude Duby, and Czech writer and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Jewish Spain

    A Mediterranean Memory

    by Tabea Alexa Linhard ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    What is meant by "Jewish Spain"? The term itself encompasses a series of historical contradictions. No single part of Spain has ever been entirely Jewish. Yet discourses about Jews informed debates on Spanish identity formation long after their 1492 expulsion. The Mediterranean world witnessed a renewed interest in Spanish-speaking Jews in the twentieth century, and it has grappled with shifting ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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  • Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy

    Jorge Semprún

    by Soledad Fox Maura ...
    In this gripping, authoritative biography, Soledad Fox Maura reveals the tumultuous true-life story of the Oscar-nominated screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over.A man of many faces, Jorge Semprún perfectly personified the struggles and successes of twentieth-century Europe. Semprún enjoyed a privileged childhood as the grandson of Spanish prime minister, Antonio Maura, until his world ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Nuestra América

    My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

    by Claudio Lomnitz ...
    **NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSA riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller.**In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War

    Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina

    by Federico Finchelstein ...
    Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early 1980s. How and why did all of these regimes emerge in a country that was "born liberal"? Why did these authoritarian ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman

    by Nora Glickman ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    This book recounts the events involving Raquel Liberman, an impoverished immigrant to Argentina that was forced by circumstances into prostitution, and the powerful Zwi Migdal, which controlled the recruitment and deployment of Jewish prostitutes in Argentina while maintaining mutually profitable relations with corrupt politicians and policemen. Liberman's story is presented as an example of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions

    1917 and its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

    by Stefan Rinke, Michael Wildt, Birgit Aschmann, Jan Claas Behrends, Dietrich Beyrau, Robert Gerwarth, David Hopkins, Patrick J. Houlihan, Tomio Izao0, Abdulhamit Kirmizi1, Jörn Leonhard2, Ricardo Pérez Montfort3, Jan Schmidt4, María Inés Tato5, Adam Tooze6, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal7, Klaus Weinhauer8, Guoqi Xu9 ...
    Series Book 34 - Eigene und Fremde Welten
    1917 was an important year in world history and not just because of the United States' entry into the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It is rightly considered the turning point of the war and the foundational moment for determining structures of the short 20th century. Contemporaries realized these global connections yet in a historiography limited to the nation-state they did not gain ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • I Want to Believe

    Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism

    by A.M. Gittlitz ...
    Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism.Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas, the movement's journey through the fractious and sectarian world of mid-20th century revolutionary socialism was unique. Although at times ... Read more

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  • The Socialist Sixties

    Crossing Borders in the Second World

    Edited by Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker ...
    "A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies." — ChoiceThe 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Franco

    Anatomy of a Dictator

    by Enrique Moradiellos ...
    On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the head of a dictatorial regime with the title of 'Caudillo' for almost 40 years. In this book, Enrique Moradiellos redraws Franco in three dimensions - Franco, the man; Franco, the Caudillo and Franco's Spain. In so doing, he offers a reappraisal of Franco's ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ascent to Glory

    How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

    by Álvaro Santana-Acuña ...
    Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it ... Read more

    $28.79 USD