Special Offers see all
More at Powell'sLatin America
|
Latin America
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli Publisher Comments An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer ("A wonderfully free and original talent" Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua by Eric Volz Publisher Comments Featured on Fox News and Univision and selected as Larry Kings Book of the Week, this is the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didnt commit. In 2005, Eric Volz moved from California to Nicaragua. Volz... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Meet Me in Managua by Wendy Murray Zoba Publisher Comments Zoba combines nonfiction with compelling biography to bring readers the storyof the Nicaraguan people and Keith Jasper.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Nicaragua: The People Speak by Alvin Levie Review Outstanding . . . Levie opens the window to the `humanity' of Nicaragua. For everyone questioning Nicaraguan self-determination.Edward Asner... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua by Eric Volz Publisher Comments Featured on Fox News and Univision and selected as Larry Kings Book of the Week, this is the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didnt commit. In 2005, Eric Volz moved from California to Nicaragua. Volz... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Blood on the Border : Memoir of the Contra War (05 Edition) by Roxanne Dunbar Publisher Comments With Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War, Dunbar-Ortiz presents the third volume in her critically acclaimed memoir. In this long-awaited book, she vividly recounts on-the-ground memories of the contra war in Nicaragua, chronicling the US... (read more) List Price $22.75 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Nicaragua Without Illusions: Regime Transition and Structural Adjustment in the 1990s by Thomas W Walker Synopsis Focusing on Nicaragua after the 1990 Sandinista electoral defeat, this book is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of one of the most unusual cases of regime transition in the late 20th century. It shows the similarities and differences between... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990 by Laura J Enriquez Publisher Comments One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor. But its attempts to promote balanced economic development and redistribute agricultural resources created labor shortages that threatened... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Sandinista-PB by Matilde Zimmermann Publisher Comments “A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED Sandinista is the first English-language... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 by Charles R Hale Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive analysis of early conflict between Miskitu Indians and the Sandanista government, and their subsequent partial reconciliation. It is grounded in a framework that applies Gramscian culture theory to the study of ethnic... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Revolution & 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001 by Leslie E Anderson Publisher Comments Historically, Nicaragua has been mired in poverty and political conflict, yet the country has become a model for the successful emergence of democracy in a developing nation. Learning Democracy tells the story of how Nicaragua overcame an authoritarian... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
From the Revolution To the Maquiladoras by Jennifer Bickham Mendez Publisher Comments From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women’s movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women’s... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
End & the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution by John A Booth About the Author John A. Booth is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas.... (read more) List Price $17.90 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Reagan vs. the Sandinistas: The Undeclared War on Nicaragua by Thomas Walker About the Author Thomas W. Walker is professor of political science and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Ohio University. He is the author of Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle, Fourth Edition (2003, Westview).... (read more) List Price $16.90 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
With the Contras :a reporter in the wilds of Nicaragua by Christopher Dickey About the Author Christopher Dickey, Newsweek's award-winning Paris bureau chief and Middle East editor, reports regularly from Baghdad, Cairo, and Jerusalem, and writes the weekly "Shadowland" column -- an inside look at the world of spies and soldiers, guerrillas and... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Life is hard :machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua by Roger N Lancaster Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-332) and index.... (read more) Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Sandinistas: The Party & the Revolution by Dennis Gilbert Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-230).... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Contra Terror in Nicaragua: Report of a Fact-Finding Mission: September 1984-January 1985 by Reed Brody Publisher Comments Exposes the policies of torture, murder, and wanton violence employed by the forces Reagan described as the moral equivalents of our Founding Fathers.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class & the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy by Forrest D Colburn List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |