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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H) by Stephen C. Schlesinger Publisher Comments Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the... (read more) Your price: $28.25 New - Trade Paper
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Ancient Maya (6TH 06 Edition) by Robert J. Sharer Publisher Comments This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago Publisher Comments Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spanish War : an American Epic,1898 (84 Edition) by George J. A. O'toole Publisher Comments On the night of February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine was ripped in half by an explosion in Havana harbor with the loss of 266 American lives. War with Spain followed nine weeks later. After a three-month fight on two fronts half a world apart... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner Publisher Comments In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu Publisher Comments Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Salvador by Joan Didion Publisher Comments "Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Across Patagonia. with Illustrations from Sketches by J. Beerbohm, Etc. by Florence Caroline Douglas Dixie Publisher Comments Title: Across Patagonia ... With illustrations from sketches by J. Beerbohm, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries... (read more) Your price: $29.75 New - Trade Paper
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Stealing Benefacio's Roses: A Mayan Epic by Martin Prechtel Publisher Comments Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala by Laura E. Matthew Publisher Comments Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja,... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 (Latin America) by Jeffrey L. Gould Publisher Comments Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980 (Dialogos) by Hector Lindo-fuentes Publisher Comments In this thoughtful collaborative study, the authors examine the processes by which education reform in El Salvador in the 1960s and 1970s became entwined in debates over theories of modernization and the politics of anticommunism.... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman Synopsis Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemalas leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador (07 Edition) by Hector Lindo-fuentes Publisher Comments The authors provide the first systematic study of the infamous massacre now regarded as one of the most extreme cases of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Own Backyard : the United States in Central America, 1977-1992 (98 Edition) by William M. Leogrande Publisher Comments An insider•s account, told in a compelling, journalistic style that non-academics will appreciate. A Washington Post Book World Pick of the Fall Crop. A masterly and comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward Central America in the 1980s. Atlantic... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Transnational Politics in Central America by Luis Roniger Synopsis "Finally, a study that moves beyond abstract assertions of the importance of a transnational perspective to demonstrate compellingly why transnationalism matters in the specific context of Central America. This is a rich, interdisciplinary look at... (read more) Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand Publisher Comments When I Was Elena is an extraordinary account of a young American woman's sojourn in the guerrilla-infested mountains of Guatemala. Shattering the concept of a typical memoir, the author's personal story is interlaced, chapter-for-chapter, with tales told... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions) by Daniel Wilkinson Publisher Comments new in paperback Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments "Should be on the required reading lists of the Chiefs of Staff and (the President's) advisers." --"The Western Political Quarterly Startlingly relevant to our own time, Che's essays in this manifesto on asymmetrical warfare established the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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