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  • Adiós Muchachos

    A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution

    Translated by Stacey Alba D. Skar ...
    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Radical Faith

    The Assassination of Sister Maura

    by Eileen Markey ...
    On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The women themselves ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Last Dance in Havana

    In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more fully understand the future of America's near neighbor, veteran reporter Eugene Robinson knew exactly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España II

    Series Book 128 - Historia
    Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España relata la experiencia americana de Díaz del Castillo. En 1514, cuando Bernal Díaz embarcó hacia el Nuevo Mundo, no había cumplido veinte años, y tres años más tarde participaba en la expedición dirigida por Hernán Cortés hacia México, donde unos pocos españoles, en algo menos de dos años, consiguieron derrotar al Imperio azteca. Cuarenta años ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Democracy Development Machine

    Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala

    Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings in The Democracy Development Machine. This historical ethnography examines how governmentalized spaces of democracy and development fell short, enabling and disfiguring an ethnic Mayan resurgence.In a passionate and politically engaged book, Copeland argues that the transition to ... Read more

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  • History of the Conquest of Mexico

    The Aztec Empire was one of the most remarkable civilizations to have ever existed.In 1519, Hernándo Cortés landed on the Gulf Coast, and two years later the Aztec civilization was a shadow of its former self.The Spanish must have appeared invincible, with their Tlascalan allies, armoured pikemen, musketeers with gunpowder and mounted cavalry.But the conquest of Mexico was no simple process for ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tratado de las idolatrías, supersticiones y costumbres

    Series Book 380 - Historia
    Jacinto de la Serna describe, entre otras, las costumbres de las indígenas aztecas durante el embarazo. Según comenta, no debían mirar los eclipses del Sol y la Luna, pues la criatura podría tener labios leporinos. Tampoco podían contemplar ejecuciones, pues los niños nacerían con una horrible soga de carne anudada a la garganta. Este tratado además ha sido extensamente citado por los expertos en ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Banana Cultures

    Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

    by John Soluri ...
    Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 6th Grade History: First Civilizations

    Ancient Civilizations for Kids Sixth Grade Books

    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Going back to the past is both scary and exciting, with it being mysterious and all. But this picture book provides just the right sneak peek into forgotten times. Here, you get to see for yourself how ancient civilizations lived and how their lives are so tightly knitted with ours. This is an exciting book to keep, so make sure you get a copy now! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Havana Blue

    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    The previous two Padura novels, Havana Red and Havana Black were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 15,000. Padura’s masterful prose and eye for detail evoke the Havana that millions of tourists have come to know: crumbling architecture, peeling paintwork and a pulsating, searing sensuality beneath the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Emergency

    Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis

    by Edgar Garcia ...
    Series series Critical Antiquities
    Nine short essays exploring the K’iche’ Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh.Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. Selección

    Series Book 129 - Historia
    Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España relata la experiencia americana de Díaz del Castillo. En 1514, cuando Bernal Díaz embarcó hacia el Nuevo Mundo, no había cumplido veinte años, y tres años más tarde participaba en la expedición dirigida por Hernán Cortés hacia México, donde unos pocos españoles, en algo menos de dos años, consiguieron derrotar al Imperio azteca. Cuarenta años ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Communism According to the CIA

    by anonymous ...
    Many formerly classified CIA documents show very that communism is radically humanistic. There is blatant acknowledgement of quite dramatic improvements to the quality of life and standard of living of the population. Rapid economic and wage growth, reduction in the cost of living and unemployment rates, dramatic improvements to the standards of health, education, social, political and economic ... Read more

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  • 4th Grade History: Ancient Civilizations

    Fourth Grade Books for Kids

    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Ancient civilizations is one 4th grade subject that can be quite difficult to understand just be reading texts. The good news is history picture books exist and they are a joy to study. Pictures provide visual representations of the past. They're easy to remember compared to blocks of text that may not be as descriptive as photos. Order your copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood on the Border

    A Memoir of the Contra War

    Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España I

    Series Book 127 - Historia
    Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España relata la experiencia americana de Díaz del Castillo. En 1514, cuando Bernal Díaz embarcó hacia el Nuevo Mundo, no había cumplido veinte años, y tres años más tarde participaba en la expedición dirigida por Hernán Cortés hacia México, donde unos pocos españoles, en algo menos de dos años, consiguieron derrotar al Imperio azteca. Cuarenta años ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Bitter Fruit

    The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded

    Series series David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University ;
    Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality within the Western art music tradition elevated Carrillo to iconic status among European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely overlooked by ... Read more

    $49.99 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 Tenth Muse

    Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz

    by Fanchon Royer ...
    In this well-rounded study, which was first published in 1952, author Fanchón Royer vividly presents Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz (1648-1695), a seventeenth-century Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known in her lifetime as “The Tenth Muse”, “The Phoenix of America”, or the “Mexican Phoenix”.A famous and controversial figure of her time, Sor Juana was a self-taught scholar, student of scientific thought, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • State of War

    MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence

    The story of MS-13 and its American rootsOne of President Donald Trump’s favorite rhetorical motifs is stoking fear that members of the MS-13 gang from El Salvador intend to cross the U.S. border in force and wreak havoc on American society. It’s an inaccurate scenario, and in State of War, foreign correspondent William Wheeler tells the real story: In the 1980s, the U.S. supported the repressive ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The War in Nicaragua

    General William Walkers WAR IN NICARAGUA—written at the close of a long civil war in Nicaragua and on the eve of the bloody American Civil War—is an autobiographical testament by one of the most infamous mercenaries/conquistadors in Latin America history, and one of the most elusive and fascinating figures in the history of North America. As with Julius Caesars DE BELLO GALLICO (which the author ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 10 Historical Events That Molded Latin America

    There are over 20 sovereign nations that compose Latin America. Over 603 million people live in this sub-region. While many languages are spoken, the predominant languages are the Romantic languages of Spanish, Portuguese and French. However, in this vast melting pot of culture, you may find people speaking any language from English and Dutch to Native American.Today, the region covers the land ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Los mercados de la Plaza Mayor en la ciudad de México

    Series series Historia
    En Los mercados de la Plaza Mayor en la Ciudad de México encontra-mos un ejercicio de microhistoria. La obra indaga la génesis de los merca-dos capitalinos modernos. El comercio tradicional novohispano que combina-ba los «cajones» de espanoles y los «puestos» de indfgenas y castas, se trasformô hasta consolidar, durante el siglo XVIII, très mercados especializa-dos: Alcaiceria, Baratillo y ... Read more

    $6.99 USD