|
Latin America
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile: A Case of Assisted Suicide by Jonathan Haslam Publisher Comments In this revealing history of Allende's Chile, Haslam uncovers the actual involvement of Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the CIA in that country's struggle for political and economic stability.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Pobladoras, Indigenas, and the State: Conflicts Over Women's Rights in Chile by Patricia Richards Publisher Comments Can laws, policies, and agencies that are designed to help women achieve equality with men accommodate differences among women themselves? In Pobladoras, Indigenas, and the State, Patricia Richards examines how Chilean state policy shapes the promotion... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the most important voices coming out of Latin America," the best-selling author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for the first time his profound and provocative journey as an exile... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 (Latin America Otherwise) by Steve J Stern Publisher Comments In 1998, General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London on charges of crimes against humanity. All over the world, but especially in Chile, the shocking arrest thrust the former dictator and the atrocities of his regime back into the public eye. During... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Search for Development by Lois Hech Oppenheim Publisher Comments In her historically grounded investigation of the dramatic political changes in Chile over the past thirty years, Lois Oppenheim focuses on identifying the dynamics of political conflict underlying this turbulent period. After a brief historical overview,... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by Jonathan Franklin Publisher Comments Available Now Prev Next Reporter Jonathan Franklin taking notes at Paloma station.Jonathan Franklin / Addict Village Faith and Los 33 were never far apart during the rescue of the miners.Jonathan Franklin / Addict Village Huge convoys of equipment rolled... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Miracle in the Mine: One Man's Story of Strength and Survival in the Chilean Mines by Jose Henriquez Publisher Comments On October 13, 2010, millions of television viewers on five continents literally stopped everything to watch the amazing rescue of 33 men trapped underground in the mine of San Jose de Copiapo in northern Chile. What had seemed at first a hopeless... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Times Gone by: Memoirs of a Man in Action (Library of Latin America) by Vicen Perez Rosales Publisher Comments These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of P�rez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Buried Alive by Manuel Pino Toro Publisher Comments On August 5, 2010, a tunnel in the gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed, with all of its miners trapped underground. For days, the families waited breathlessly as percussion drills searched out signs of life. ... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.75 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for Democracy in Chile by Philip Oxhorn Publisher Comments Owing to a poor economy and renewed political repression, Philip Oxhorn was one of only a handful of individuals able to conduct research in Chilean shantytowns in the 1980s. His book focuses on the emergence of popular organizations among the Chilean... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The History of Chile by John Lawrence Rector Publisher Comments Chronicles the history of Chile, from prehistoric times through its time as a Spanish colony to today.... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price: $46.11 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile by Eden Medina Publisher Comments In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Girondins of Chile: Reminiscences of an Eyewitness (Library of Latin America) by Ben Vicuna Mackenna Publisher Comments The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicu�a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The General's Slow Retreat: Chile After Pinochet by Mary Helen Spooner Publisher Comments In her acclaimed book Soldiers in a Narrow Land, Mary Helen Spooner took us inside the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Carrying Chile's story up to the present, she now offers this vivid account of how Chile rebuilt its democracy after 17 years... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Soldiers in a Narrow Land by Mary Helen Spooner Publisher Comments On September 11, 1973, a military coup in Chile overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende, beginning an era of political repression that lasted over sixteen years. Mary Helen Spooner takes us behind the Pinochet regime's wall of censorship... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Nelly Richard Publisher Comments Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile’s neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $7.75 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir by Marc Cooper Publisher Comments In writing from Chile Marc Cooper vividly evokes the tense atmosphere of the final days of the Allende government. When he revisits years later, he finds a sham of democracy but also spasms of protest in the wake of Pinochet's arrest that may at last... (read more) Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by Jonathan Franklin Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010. Franklin, with his renowned eye for detail and dialogue, captures the remarkable... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the most important voices coming out of Latin America," the best-selling author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for the first time his profound and provocative journey as an exile... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
