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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
by Gioconda Belli
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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)

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Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua
Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua
by Eric Volz
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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)

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Meet Me in Managua
Meet Me in Managua
by Wendy Murray Zoba
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Zoba combines nonfiction with compelling biography to bring readers the storyof the Nicaraguan people and Keith Jasper.... (read more)

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Nicaragua: The People Speak
Nicaragua: The People Speak
by Alvin Levie
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Outstanding . . . Levie opens the window to the `humanity' of Nicaragua. For everyone questioning Nicaraguan self-determination.Edward Asner... (read more)

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Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua
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)

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Blood on the Border : Memoir of the Contra War (05 Edition)
Blood on the Border : Memoir of the Contra War (05 Edition)
by Roxanne Dunbar
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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)

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Nicaragua Without Illusions: Regime Transition and Structural Adjustment in the 1990s
Nicaragua Without Illusions: Regime Transition and Structural Adjustment in the 1990s
by Thomas W Walker
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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)

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Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990
Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990
by Laura J Enriquez
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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)

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Sandinista-PB
Sandinista-PB
by Matilde Zimmermann
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“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)

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Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987
Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987
by Charles R Hale
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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)

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Revolution & the Multiclass Coalition in Nicaragua
Revolution & the Multiclass Coalition in Nicaragua
by Mark Everingham
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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)

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Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001
Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001
by Leslie E Anderson
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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)

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From the Revolution To the Maquiladoras
From the Revolution To the Maquiladoras
by Jennifer Bickham Mendez
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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)

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End & the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution
End & the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution
by John A Booth
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John A. Booth is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas.... (read more)

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Reagan vs. the Sandinistas: The Undeclared War on Nicaragua
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)

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With the Contras :a reporter in the wilds of Nicaragua
With the Contras :a reporter in the wilds of Nicaragua
by Christopher Dickey
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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)

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Life is hard :machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua
Life is hard :machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua
by Roger N Lancaster
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-332) and index.... (read more)

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Sandinistas: The Party & the Revolution
Sandinistas: The Party & the Revolution
by Dennis Gilbert
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-230).... (read more)

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Contra Terror in Nicaragua: Report of a Fact-Finding Mission: September 1984-January 1985
Contra Terror in Nicaragua: Report of a Fact-Finding Mission: September 1984-January 1985
by Reed Brody
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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)

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Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class & the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy
Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class & the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy
by Forrest D Colburn
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