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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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Aztec World by Elizabeth Brumfiel Publisher Comments The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history,... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bitter Fruit -revised and Expanded ((Rev)05 Edition) by Stephen Schlesinger Publisher Comments Bitter Fruitis 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) List Price $29.75 Your price: $18.00 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 $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Secret History: The C.I.A.'s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 by Nick Cullather Publisher Comments In 1992, the Central Intelligence Agency hired the young historian Nick Cullather to write a history (classified “secret” and for internal distribution only) of the Agencys Operation PBSUCCESS, which overthrew the lawful government of... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie Publisher Comments In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman Publisher Comments Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s 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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Labour Control in Belize, Jamaica and the United States of America: History Dissertation Prizewinner by Peter Hitchen Publisher Comments The award winning thesis focussed on Post-Emancipation systems of labour control using a comparative analysis of the United States, from 1865 to 'Redemption' in 1877, & the British Caribbean colonies of Belize & Jamaica, from Emancipation in 1838 until... (read more) Your price: $17.25 New - 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 $12.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Children of Cain by Tina Rosenberg Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America--drinking coffee with hit men and sunbathing with death-squad financiers--to understand people for whom violence is a way of life. Her six vivid and haunting portraits illuminate... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Antipolitics: The Military in Latin America (Latin American Silhouettes) by Brian Loveman Publisher Comments Latin America is moving toward democracy. But is the civilian government firmly in power? Or is the military still influencing policy and holding the elected politicians in check under the guise of guarding against corruption, instability, economic... (read more) Your price: $39.75 New - Trade Paper
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Panama by Kevin Buckley Publisher Comments Written by a seasoned journalist and updated to include Noriega's trial, this account of U.S. involvement in Panama "reads like a spy thriller" (Publishers Weekly). Buckley shows that U.S. policymakers were fully aware of Noriega's drug-trafficking... (read more) Your price: $20.95 New - Trade Paper
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Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) by Prudence M. Rice Publisher Comments How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Guerrilla Warfare (Latin American Silhouettes) by Che Guevara Synopsis Che Guevara, the larger-than-life hero of the 1959 revolutionary victory that overturned the Cuban dictatorship, believed that revolution would also topple the imperialist governments in Latin America. Che's call to action, his proclamation of... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (Penn State Press) by Matthew Restall Publisher Comments After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and Kiche Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colonywith their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemalas conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520-1720 (Llilas Special Publications) by Murdo J Macleod Publisher Comments The seventeenth century has been characterized as Latin America's forgotten century. This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Guatemala After the Peace Accords by Rachel Sieder Publisher Comments One of the longest and seemingly most intractable civil wars in Latin America was brought to an end by the signing of the Peace Accords between the Guatemalan government and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) in December 1996. The... (read more) Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper
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California Series in Public Anthropology #8: Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope by Beatriz Manz Publisher Comments This is an ethnography of one village in the Guatemalan highlands in which a massacre took place in 1982 during the civil war.... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Politics, Economy, and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759?1821 by Jordana Dym Publisher Comments Although historians have devoted significant attention to the Spanish policies known broadly as the Bourbon Reforms and their impacts in Spain and some of its New World colonies, this book is the first to explore the Bourbon Reforms? effects on Central... (read more) Your price: $74.25 New - Hardcover
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