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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano Publisher Comments Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression (Independent Studies in Political Economy) by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent In Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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We Say No: Chronicles, 1963-1991 by Eduardo Galeano Publisher Comments The title of We Say No is drawn from a speech Galeano delivered in support of democracy in Chile in 1988, stating that by saying no to a global system of greed and exploitation, one says yes to equality and freedom. The 34 pieces comprising this book... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Other West: Latin America from Invasion to Globalization (California World History Library) by Marcello Carmagnani Publisher Comments The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Continent: the Battle for Latin America's Soul (08 Edition) by Michael Reid Publisher Comments Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africas moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism by Greg Grandin Publisher Comments Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present. --Naomi Klein, author of No Logo The British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America by Stephen G Rabe Publisher Comments The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America is a comprehensive yet concise analysis of U.S. policies in Latin America during the Cold War. Author Stephen G. Rabe, a leading authority in the field, argues that the sense of joy and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction: An Introduction by William H Beezley Publisher Comments Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction is a collection of articles that explores a wide range of compelling cultural subjects in the region, including carnival, romance, funerals, medicine, monuments and dance, among others. The introduction... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America's Long Cold War (American Encounters/Global Interactions) by Greg Grandin Publisher Comments Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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Jaguar Books on Latin America #19: Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America by Carlos A Aguirre Publisher Comments The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Diana Sorensen Publisher Comments A Turbulent Decade Remembered studies the 1960s—the continental moment that marked Latin America's full entry into both modernity and post-modernity in the international arena. Delving into scenes of importance for the intersection of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene Publisher Comments A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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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Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennif De Hernandez Publisher Comments Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Mench, Cherre Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzalda, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in... (read more) List Price $22.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Marc Gonsalves Publisher Comments On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors--Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell--crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Conversion of a Continent: Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America by Timothy J Steigenga Synopsis A massive religious transformation has unfolded over the past forty years in Latin America and the Caribbean. In a region where the Catholic Church could once claim a near monopoly of adherents, religious pluralism has fundamentally altered the social... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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