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  • Óscar Romero’s Theological Vision

    Liberation and the Transfiguration of the Poor

    This ambitious book examines Saint Oscar Romero's words to understand how his thoughts fit into the broader context of Catholic theology.On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated as he celebrated mass in El Salvador. He was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis on October 14, 2018. Edgardo Colón-Emeric explores the life and thought of Romero and his theological vision, which finds ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    The ‘Great Pedestrian' of North and South America

    Series Book 21 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    Cabeza de Vaca’s mode of transportation, afoot on portions of two continents in the early decades of the sixteenth century, fits one dictionary definition of the word “pedestrian.” By no means, however, should the ancillary meanings of “commonplace” or “prosaic” be applied to the man, or his remarkable adventures. Between 1528 and 1536, he trekked an estimated 2,480 to 2,640 miles of North ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • «Desaparición»

    Argentina’s Human Rights Trials

    Series Book 53 - Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas
    The current situation in Argentina is unprecedented. In compliance with prescribed timings and procedures, the crimes committed by the state in recent history are being prosecuted and penalized. This book traces the path of the trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, from the Trial of the Juntas that began during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín to current developments under Cristina ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • ¡Presente!

    The Politics of Presence

    by Diana Taylor ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Zumarraga and the Mexican Inquisition, 1536-1543

    The purpose of this study is to investigate the inquisitorial activities of Don Fray Juan de Zumárraga, first Bishop and Archbishop of Mexico, 1528-1548. Zumárraga served as Apostolic Inquisitor in the bishopric of Mexico from 1536 to 1542, when he was superseded in that office by the Visitor General, Francisco Tello de Sandoval, largely because he had relaxed Don Carlos, the cacique of Texcoco, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zapotec

    by Helen Augur ...
    An Affectionate Portrait Of Southern Mexico And Its 3000 Year Old Culture.“This engrossing study of southern Mexico, an area fabulous for what it has already yielded to devoted archaeologists, haunting for what it has not yet revealed, centers about the Zapotec as the matrix of the Oaxaca peoples and builders of a glorious ancient culture. First we come to know the peoples of Oaxaca as they are ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Yerba Mate

    The Drink That Shaped a Nation

    Series Book 79 - California Studies in Food and Culture
    Like coffee or tea, yerba mate is one of the world's most beloved caffeinated beverages. Once dubbed a "devil's drink" by Spanish missionaries in South America only to be later hailed by capitalists and politicians as "green gold," it has a long and storied history. And no country consumes and celebrates yerba mate quite like Argentina.Yerba Mate is the first book to explore the extraordinary ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Xenophobia and Nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
    This book historicises and analyses the increasing incidence of xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.It examines how xenophobia and nativism impact the political cohesion and social fabric of states and societies in the regions and offers solutions to aid policy formation and implementation. Rather than utilising an overarching framework, individual theory is applied ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Writing the Land, Writing Humanity

    The Maya Literary Renaissance

    Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the texts present literature as a trans-species phenomenon that is not reducible only to human creativity. Based on detailed textual analysis of the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Writing Revolution

    Hispanic Anarchism in the United States

    In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to Barcelona. Christopher ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Writing in the Air

    Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

    Translated by Lynda J. Jentsch ...
    Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or "mestizaje" dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Writing across Cultures

    Narrative Transculturation in Latin America

    by Angel Rama ...
    Translated by David Frye ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise
    Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • World War II Re-explored

    Some New Millenium Studies in the History of the Global Conflict

    This volume is a collection of thirty papers written by authors from around the world. The writers focus on topics related to their own research interests. As a result, readers obtain a worldwide perspective on World War II from academics working on nearly every continent, proving that World War II was, probably, the first ever truly global experience for humanity. Present are many and different ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Works of Willis Fletcher Johnson

    6 works of Willis Fletcher JohnsonAuthor, lecturer and for twenty years foreign and diplomatic editorial writer for The New York Tribune (1857-1931)This ebook presents a collection of 6 works of Willis Fletcher Johnson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.Table of Contents:History of the Johnstown FloodThe History of Cuba, vol. IThe History of Cuba, vol. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979

    Edited by 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 AEMDNMOin this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and railway strikes in Mexico, the attempted revolution in Guatemala, railway nationalization and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Workers Go Shopping in Argentina

    The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture

    In 1951 an Argentine newspaper announced that the standard of living of workers in Argentina was “the highest in the world.” More than half a century later, Argentines still look back to the mid-twentieth century as the “golden years of Peronism,” a time when working people, who had struggled to make ends meet a few years earlier, could now buy ready-made clothing, radios, and even big-ticket ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Women’s Work in Special Period Cuba

    Making Ends Meet

    The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period. Through the innovative framework of individual and collective memory, Daliany Jerónimo Kersh brings together analysis of press sources and oral ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas

    The Politics of Observation

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Inspired by the writings of Alexander von Humboldt these women, in their travels, expand ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Women's Suffrage in the Americas

    Edited by Stephanie Mitchell ...
    The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the Americas pushes back against the misconception that women's movements originated in the United States. The volume brings Latin American voices to the forefront of English-language scholarship. Suffragists across the hemisphere worked together, formed collegial networks to support each ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Women's Lives in Colonial Quito

    Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America

    What did it mean to be a woman in colonial Spanish America? Given the many advances in women's rights since the nineteenth century, we might assume that colonial women had few rights and were fully subordinated to male authority in the family and in society—but we'd be wrong. In this provocative study, Kimberly Gauderman undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Women in Ancient America

    Second Edition

    This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America.Women—and women’s work—have been crucial to the survival and success of American peoples since ancient times. And as hunting and foraging societies developed farming ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Women Drug Traffickers

    Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime

    by Elaine Carey ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers—work rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey’s study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing subject, from women drug smugglers in the early twentieth century to the cartel queens who make news today. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Women and the Cuban Insurrection

    How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory

    Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield ... Read more

    $22.99 USD