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  • Scarcity and Survival in Central America

    Ecological Origins of the Soccer War

    Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely a product of the concentration of landholdings.The analysis focuses on the emigration of 300,000 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya

    Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the pastThey use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, Jeremy Sabloff shows how the exciting transformation of archaeology is shedding new light on past civilizations. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Writings for a Liberation Psychology

    “In your country,” Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, “it’s publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and perish.” In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • To Die in this Way

    Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

    Series series Latin America otherwise
    Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity—involved a decades-long process of myth ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State

    The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean

    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging scholars to demonstrate how the actions and ideas of rural workers, peasants, migrants, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cortés and Montezuma

    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • From Hitler to Trujillo: In Search of a Homeland

    From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium rather than Germany, the country of his birth, when World War II broke out, Vorshirm and his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Blood of Guatemala

    A History of Race and Nation

    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Regime of Anastasio Somoza, 1936-1956

    by Knut Walter ...
    To many observers, Anastasio Somoza, who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956, personified the worst features of a dictator. While not dismissing these characteristics, Knut Walter argues that the regime was in fact more notable for its achievement of stability, economic growth, and state building than for its personalistic and dictatorial features. Using a wide range of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Harvesting Change

    Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990

    One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor. But its attempts to promote balanced economic development and redistribute agricultural resources created labor shortages that threatened the country's economic lifeline. New employment opportunities created through agrarian reform upset the delicate balance developed in pre ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rascally Signs in Sacred Places

    The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua

    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional expressive forms--including literature, music, film, and broadcast media--the book explores the evolution of Nicaraguan culture, its manipulation for political purposes, and the opposition to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Revolution in the Countryside

    Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954

    by Jim Handy ...
    Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a decisive impact on the nature of change in Guatemala. He looks at the ways in which ethnic and class relations ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Reinterpreting the Banana Republic

    Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972

    In this new analysis of Honduran social and political development, Dar degreeso Euraque explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbors Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Within this comparative framework, he challenges the traditional Banana Republic 'theory' and its assumption that multinational corporations completely controlled state ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Nicaragua's Other Revolution

    Religious Faith and Political Struggle

    The 1979 rebellion in Nicaragua was the first in modern Latin America to be carried out with the active participation and support of Christians. Like all revolutions, the Nicaraguan Revolution has provoked controversy and hostility, and the Christian presence has been a focal point in the debate. In this work Michael Dodson and Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy offer a detailed study of the religious ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Sandinista

    Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

    “A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITEDSandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post–1959 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Path Between the Seas

    The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

    The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Green Phoenix

    Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

    by William Allen ...
    Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory. In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the gripping story of a large group of Costa Rican and American scientists and volunteers who set out to ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Conquest of New Spain

    Translated by John Cohen ...
    Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Anna in the Tropics (TCG Edition)

    by Nilo Cruz ...
    Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama. . . there are many kinds of light.The light of fires. The light of stars.The light that reflects off rivers.Light that penetrates through cracks.Then there’s the type of light that reflects off the skin.—Nilo Cruz, Anna in the TropicsThis lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The United States Discovers Panama

    The Writings of Soldiers, Scholars, Scientists, and Scoundrels, 1850D1905

    Marking the centennial of Panama's separation from Colombia in 1903, this volume reprises U.S. images of the isthmus a century ago. The editors have collected a fascinating selection of articles from two of the most influential publications of the era, Harper's Monthly Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, to illustrate the prejudices and expansionistic rhetoric of the time. An eclectic mix of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Ana en el Trópico

    Anna in the Tropics

    by Nilo Cruz ...
    Translated by Nacho Artime ...
    SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITIONGanadora del Premio Pulitzer 2003 de Obras Dramáticas“Extraordinaria y evocativa. La estelar Ana en el trópico es una obra de arte.” –Christine Dolen, Miami Herald“Ana en el trópico es una obra hermosa y conmovedora, reforzada por el humor y la congja. Cruz es un seductor narrador de cuentos, y un dúctil tejedor de sueños.” –Robert L. Daniels, Variety“El lenguaje de Cruz ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Armies without Nations

    Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960

    Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Linking public violence and patrimonial political cultures, he shows how the early states ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Xuxub Must Die

    The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan

    by Paul Sullivan ...
    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber, sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found death.In 1875 an American plantation manager named Robert Stephens and a number of his workers were ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Havana Red

    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    First of quartet with same hero. Sold well in Spain, Italy , France and Germany (40,000 per title in Germany alone). First time the author is available in English.Award winning novel.High critical acclaim in all countries. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD