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My Car in Managua by Forrest D. Colburn Publisher Comments Histories of revolutions often focus on military, political, or economic upheavals but sometimes neglect to connect these larger events to the daily lives of "ordinary" people. Yet the peoples' perception that "things are worse than before" can topple... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism by Greg Grandin Publisher Comments An eye-opening examination of Latin America's role as proving ground for U.S. imperial strategies and tactics In recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy. In their search... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940 by Robin Moore Publisher Comments "An examination of Cuban society through the music of the 1920s-30s when it began to embrace Afro-Cuban culture. Traces how the African element of Cuban society became associated with national identity. Among topics examined are carnival bands, son music,... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti by Michael Deibert Publisher Comments Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Liberators, Patriots, and Leaders of Latin America: 32 Biographies by Jerome R. Adams Publisher Comments This book features biographies of 32 of the most notable figures in Latin American history. To the 23 individuals from the first edition, consisting mostly of revolutionary, political, and military figures of the past, are added nine new biographies of... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $27.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 by Aldo Lauria-Santiago Publisher Comments With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured before. Using thoroughly researched regional case studies, Lauria-Santiago challenges the accepted vision of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro Publisher Comments In a series of interviews with a European journalist and scholar, the Cuban leader describes his early life, the Cuban Revolution, and his experiences ruling Cuba, and discusses his views on socialism, international affairs, and the future.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman Publisher Comments Documents the 1910 investigation of activist Roger Casement into human-rights abuses committed by industrial baron Julio... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform by Jo-Marie Burt Publisher Comments The Andean region is perhaps the most violent and politically unstable in the Western Hemisphere. Politics in the Andes is the first comprehensive volume to assess the persistent political challenges facing Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.... (read more) List Price $20.76 Your price: $18.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Revolution and the Multiclass Coalition in Nicaragua by Mark Everingham Publisher Comments This book tells the intriguing story of the multi-class coalition that formed to overthrow Somoza's Nicaraguan government in July of 1979. Mark Everingham offers personal accounts from members of the elite class, to determine the factors that led them to... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $23.03 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Wars of Independence in Spanish America by Christon I. Archer Publisher Comments This volume of readings examines the revolutions, civil wars, guerrilla struggles, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, and interventions of this period. Offering a solid perspective on the Independence period, The Wars of Independence is an excellent... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $31.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left by Nikolas Kozloff Publisher Comments In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Ch vez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and Michelle... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853-1870) by Ariel De La Fuente Publisher Comments In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $78.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America by Julio Ramos Publisher Comments With a Foreword by José David Saldívar Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $22.15 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Journeys of Fear: Refugee Return and National Transformation in Guatemala by Liisa North Publisher Comments Edited and with contributions by Liisa North and Alan Simmons, this collection explores the participation of the oppressed and marginalised Guatemalan refugees, most of them indigenous Mayas who fled from the army's razed-earth campaign of the early... (read more) Your price: $95.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cuban Communism by Irving Louis Horowitz Publisher Comments Appearing in the aftermath of the stunning events surrounding the Elian Gonzalez case, the nature of Cuban Communism has again become a core issue for the American people. Cuban Communism has widely come to be known as "the Bible of Cuban Studies". It... (read more) List Price $27.96 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cuba's Energy Future: Strategic Approaches to Cooperation by Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado Publisher Comments Approaching an uncertain future without Fidel Castro, and still reeling from a downturn at the end of the cold war, Cuba must act decisively to improve its economy and living conditions. One of the major challenges facing the impoverished island nation... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Marguerite Feitlowitz Publisher Comments "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico by Robert A. Pastor Publisher Comments A look at the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico covers foreign policy, economic relations, social influence, public attitudes, cultures, and current... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones Publisher Comments In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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