• Cruel Modernity

    $34.95

    In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand...
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    $34.95
  • The Right to Stay Home

    $25.00

    The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United StatesPeople across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent...
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    $25.00
  • Bolivar

    $23.00

    A brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American...
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    $23.00
  • Haiti: the Aftershocks of History

    $22.99

    A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic historyEven before the devastating...
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    $22.99
  • Black in Latin America

    $28.00

    Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesThe history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge―or deny―their African past12.5...
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    $28.00
  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    $29.95

    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the...
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    $29.95
  • The Last Days of the Incas

    $22.00

    The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas,...
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    $22.00
  • The Aztecs

    $12.99

    This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in...
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    $12.99
  • Dancing with Cuba

    $20.00

    In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more...
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    $20.00
  • From Pinochet to the 'Third Way'

    $23.25

    This is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of three decades of neoliberal reforms in Chile. Chile is often described as a "model" of neoliberal development policy. Marcus Taylor shows...
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    $23.25
  • Women Who Live Evil Lives

    $24.95

    Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in...
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    $24.95
  • Cold War, Deadly Fevers

    $45.00
    $26.99

    In the mid-1950s, with planning and funding from the United States, Mexico embarked on an ambitious campaign to eradicate malaria, which was widespread and persistent. This new history explores the...
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    $26.99
    $45.00
    $26.99
  • Dilemmas of Modernity

    $24.95
    $15.00

    Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...
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    $15.00
    $24.95
    $15.00
  • Ancient Maya

    $40.99
    $23.96

    In this new archaeological study, Arthur Demarest brings the lost pre-Columbian civilization of the Maya to life. In applying a holistic perspective to the most recent evidence from archaeology,...
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    $23.96
    $40.99
    $23.96
  • The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca

    $20.00
    $15.00

    This edition of ?lvar N£_ez Cabeza de Vaca?s Relaci¢n offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca?s account of the 1527 P¾nfilo de Narv¾ez...
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    $20.00
    $15.00
  • Colonial Latin America

    $68.00
    $51.00

    Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon...
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    $51.00
    $68.00
    $51.00
  • Cuba

    $20.00

    This new look at the history of Cuba illuminates the island’s entire revolutionary past as well as the most recent decades of the Castro regimeEvents in Fidel Castro’s island nation often command...
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    $20.00
  • Orpheus and Power

    $39.95
    $21.98

    From recent data on disparities between Brazilian whites and non-whites in areas of health, education, and welfare, it is clear that vast racial inequalities do exist in Brazil, contrary to earlier...
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    $21.98
    $39.95
    $21.98
  • State Repression and the Labors of Memory

    $25.50

    Hearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for "the disappeared" in Argentina, the investigation of...
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    $25.50
  • Selected Writings

    $20.00

    José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's...
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    $20.00