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  • The Weak and the Powerful

    Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World

    de Jonathan C. Brown ...
    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus through the canal. For nearly a century, the United States occupied and controlled the Panama Canal Zone and its shipping operations. In 1999, control was passed to Panama’s Canal Authority. This peaceful transfer was a result of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979

    Edición de Jonathan C. Brown ...
    The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays ÆMDNMØin this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and railway strikes in Mexico, the attempted revolution in Guatemala, railway nationalization and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century

    Edición de Jonathan C. Brown, Alan Knight ...
    Series series LLILAS Symposia on Latin America Series
    Mexico's petroleum industry has come to symbolize the very sovereignty of the nation itself. Politicians criticize Pemex, the national oil company, at their peril, and President Salinas de Gortari has made clear that the free trade negotiations between Mexico and the United States will not affect Pemex's basic status as a public enterprise. How and why did the petroleum industry gain such ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Cuba’s Revolutionary World

    de Jonathan C. Brown ...
    On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time “the real Revolution” had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s words proved prophetic not only for ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

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  • Che Guevara

    A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)

    de Jon Lee Anderson ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Short History, 1910-1920

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    de Julia E Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Fidel Castro: My Life

    A Spoken Autobiography

    de Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro ...
    The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Companero

    The Life and Death of Che Guevara

    de Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Cuba

    A Brief History

    de Sergio Guerra Vilaboy, Oscar Loyola Vega ...
    A concise, readable and thoroughly revised overview of Cuba written by Cubans for anyone interested in quickly understanding the island country’s turbulent history.Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba’s struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the period after Fidel Castro’s decision to step down from office, to ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Populista

    The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman

    de Will Grant ...
    'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.' FIDEL CASTROFor more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Evo Morales

    The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia

    de Martín Sivak ...
    The fascinating Bolivian president Evo Morales is vying with the brash and provocative leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to be the most influential figure in South American politics today. Since coming into office four years ago, Morales has been intensely critical of the United States, speaking out against the drug war at the United Nations and implementing socialist programs at home, including ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD