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Columbian Exchange Biological by A W Crosby Synopsis "The best thing about this book is its overarching thesis, the concept of a Columbian exchange. This provocative device permits Crosby to shape a lot of familiar and seemingly unrelated data into a fresh synthesis. . . . The implications of this... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535-1550 by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano Publisher Comments Originally published in Mexico as Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study Reshaping New Spain is now available in an updated English edition. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Remembering Che by Aleida March Publisher Comments For the first time, Aleida March evokes the memories of her partner, Ernesto Che Guevara. She describes their great romance and life together from the days when they first met as fellow guerrillas in Cuba's revolutionary war up to the tragic moment when... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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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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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller. This new, expanded... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Latin America (7TH 10 Edition) by Thomas E. Skidmore Publisher Comments Now thoroughly updated in its seventh edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $49.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Memory of Fire Trilogy #02: Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano Publisher Comments The second volume of Eduardo Galeanos Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of our... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Daily Life of the Aztecs by Jacques Soustelle Publisher Comments The Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them--imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cuba Style: Graphics from the Golden Age of Design by Vicki Gold Levi Staff Pick Heller's latest collection is a time capsule of Cuba as it was in its hey-day as a lively tropical resort colony for those in search of music, liquor, gambling and hot Cuban romance. Capturing the ideal golden days of their prosperous country, Cubano... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista #11: A History of the Cuban Revolution by Aviva Chomsky Publisher Comments Few historical events are as little understood -- or continue to stir such emotions -- as the revolution guided by Fidel Castro that overthrew the Batista government of Cuba in 1959. A History of the Cuban Revolution journeys beyond the fiery political... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Environmental History of Latin America (07 Edition) by Shawn William Miller Publisher Comments This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $19.00 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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Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America by John Charl Chasteen Publisher Comments Drawing on the most current scholarship, this concise text presents a direct, compelling narrative that spans six centuries and twenty countries. Carefully revised in light of recent Latin American history, the Second Edition introduces new maps, helpful... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Mexico (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Brian R Hamnett Publisher Comments The 2006 second edition of this accessible study of Mexico includes two new features, an examination of cultural developments since Independence from Spain in 1821 and a discussion of contemporary issues up to the time of publication. Several new plates... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $6.75 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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State Repression and the Labors of Memory by Elizabeth Jelin Publisher Comments Hearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for "the disappeared" in Argentina, the investigation of the death of former president Goulart in Brazil, the... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-making in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (07 Edition) by Rebecca Earle Publisher Comments Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Conflicting Missions : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (02 Edition) by Piero Gleijeses Publisher Comments Based on unprecedented research in Cuban, American, and European archives, this is the compelling story of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses sheds new light on U.S.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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