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  • Days and Nights

    "Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886-1910

    The appearance of Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886-1910, had several important consequences for the entire field of Latin American history, as well as for the study of Colombia. Through Bergquist's analysis of this transitional period in terms of what has been called the dependency theory, he has left his mark on all subsequent studies in Latin American affairs; questions of economic ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Royal Navy and the Falklands War

    by David Brown ...
    This military history reveals the untold story of the United Kingdom’s Royal and Merchant Navies during the Falkland’s War.Soldiers and journalists alike wasted no time in memorializing the campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands after the Argentinian invasion in April, 1982. With the overwhelming focus on the role of the Army, the vital contributions of the Royal and Merchant Navies have been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Money Doctor in the Andes

    U.S. Advisors, Investors, and Economic Reform in Latin America from World War I to the Great Depression

    by Paul W. Drake ...
    The Money Doctor in the Andes is an account of the technical assistance missions to five Andean republics—Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru—undertaken by Princeton University economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer during the 1920s. Drake demonstrates that in each case the Kemmerer mission recommended an identical series of monetary, fiscal, and banking reforms, adding occasional recommendations ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Indigenous Migration and Social Change

    The Foresteros of Cuzco, 1570-1720

    Many observers in colonial Spanish America—whether clerical, governmental, or foreign—noted the large numbers of forasteros, or Indians who were not seemingly attached to any locality. These migrants, or “wanderers,” offended the bureaucratic sensibilities of the Spanish administration, as they also frustrated their tax and revenue efforts. Ann M. Wightman’s research on these early “undocumentals” ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Stains on My Name, War in My Veins

    Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle

    Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality

    Brazil’s Contestado Rebellion, 1912–1916

    Why did a millenarian movement erupt in the Brazilian interior in 1912? Setting out to answer this deceptively simple question, Todd A. Diacon delivers a fascinating account of a culture in crisis.Combining oral history with detailed archival research, Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality depicts a peasant community whose security in economic, social, and religious relations was suddenly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance

    A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy

    Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A ciência a caminho da roça

    imagens das expedições científicas do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ao interior do Brasil entre 1911 e 1913

    Bela e criteriosa seleção de imagens das expedições científicas do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ao interior do Brasil nos anos de 1911-1913. Ao percorrer extensas áreas da Amazônia e da região Nordeste, os expedicionários não só realizaram o levantamento das condições médico-sanitárias de tais populações, como também possibilitaram um minucioso registro de aspectos geográficos, econômicos e ... Read more

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  • Working Women, Working Men

    Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955

    by Joel Wolfe ...
    In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sào Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sào Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Contemporary History of Latin America

    Series series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
    For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general history of Latin America in the Spanish-speaking world. Unparalleled in scope, attentive to the paradoxes of Latin American reality, and known for its fine-grained interpretation, it is now available for the first time in English. Revised and updated by ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Islam, Black Nationalism and Slavery

    A Detailed History

    by Adib Rashad ...
    Beginning with the origins of Islam in Arabia and continuing to the African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, Mr. Rashad examines the influence the religion had on the peoples of that continent and the impact of slavery on African Muslims brought to the Americas. He offers several biographical sketches of pre-Civil War Muslim slaves and how Islam was reintroduced into the United States at the ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America

    Series series a boundary 2 book
    Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate in Latin America.This collection explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism, less to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes

    At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

    Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective as it explores the dynamic between Andean cultural, social, and economic practices and the market forces of a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • “Civilizing” Rio

    Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930

    by Teresa Meade ...
    A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized the port, and improved sanitation, lighting, and public transportation. These changes made life worse, not ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • From Two Republics to One Divided

    Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru

    by Mark Thurner ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations
    From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner’s reading of the Andean peasantry’s engagement and disengagement with the postcolonial state challenges long-standing interpretations of Peruvian and modern Latin American history and casts a critical eye toward ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Disappearing Acts

    Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War"

    by Diana Taylor ...
    In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor’s focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people in that nation’s "Dirty War." Combining feminism, cultural studies, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Cochabamba, 1550-1900

    Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia

    by Brooke Larson ...
    Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American StudiesThis study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory networks caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Politics of Memory

    Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes

    Series series Latin America otherwise
    How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa—a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historians of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Rappaport highlights the differences between ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Confederados

    Old South Immigrants in Brazil

    This collection of essays--which also includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settler-- examines the fascinating experiences of southern Confederate exiles in Brazil and their continuing legacy.During the late 1860s Southerners dissatisfied with the outcome of the Civil War and fearful of the extent of Union reprisals migrated to Brazil to build a new life for themselves. The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Garcilaso Inca de la Vega

    An American Humanist, A Tribute to José Durand

    Edited by José Anadón ...
    Sixteenth-century historian Garcilaso Inca de la Vega had a unique view of the ancient Inca Empire and the Americas. A Peruvian mestizo who emigrated to Spain, he was the first writer to envision Latin America as a multiethnic continent, and he advanced a humanist interpretation of New World history that continues to enrich our appreciation of that era.Widely read and translated, Garcilaso is a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Contested Communities

    Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951

    Series series Comparative and international working-class history
    In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Shining and Other Paths

    War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995

    Edited by Steve J. Stern ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise
    Shining and Other Paths offers the first systematic account of the social experiences at the heart of the war waged between Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the 1980s and early 1990s. Confronting and untangling the many myths and enigmas that surround the war and the wider history of twentieth-century Peru, this book presents clear and often poignant analyses of the brutal reshaping ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Facundo

    Or, Civilization and Barbarism

    Translated by Mary Peabody Mann ...
    Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de ... Read more

    $12.99 USD