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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron by Nicholas Fraser Publisher Comments The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being hidden away by nervous politicians... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments First published in 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss's accounts of his researches among the peoples of the Amazon is a fascinating study and influential in understanding the organization of human society. He writes of myths and superstitions, modern cities and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland by Hugh Thomson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-300) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Argentina Reader : History, Culture, Politics (02 Edition) by Gabriela Nouzeilles Publisher Comments Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina?in all its complexity?has often been obscured by variations of the "like Europe and not like the rest of Latin... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin Publisher Comments The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Hardcover
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Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas (Latin American Silhouettes Series) by John Lynch Publisher Comments Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas, is John Lynch's new edition of his 1981 book, shortened for classroom use. The figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century. Charles Darwin... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conquest of New Spain by B Diaz Del Castillo Publisher Comments Fifty years after the startling defeat of the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a magnificent account on his experience as a soldier in CortésÆs army.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Penguin History of Latin America (92 Edition) by Edwin Williamson Publisher Comments Traces 500 years of history from the time of Columbus to the present day. "An excellent general history...clear in its narrative, interesting in its analysis and consistently inteliigent in its judgements" Anthony McFarlane in "The Times Higher Education... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 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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Lexicon of Terror : Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (98 Edition) by Marguerite Feitlowitz Publisher Comments "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Profits of Extermination: Big Mining in Colombia by Francisco Rammrez Cuellar Publisher Comments The Profits of Exterminationuncovers the costs of foreign investment, privatization and neo-liberalism in Colombia. US corporations have manipulated the law and worked hand in hand with right-wing death squads and the US government to ensure profits at... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Memory of Fire Trilogy #01: Genesis by Eduardo H. Galeano Publisher Comments From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to modern times, Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy offers an outstanding Latin-American eye view of the makings of the New World, presenting "nothing less than a... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Death Without Weeping : the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (92 Edition) by Nancy Scheper-hughes Synopsis Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador (Latin American Silhouettes) by Allen Gerlach Publisher Comments It is indispensable that Ecuador has peace, but to have peace you need freedom and to have freedom you need justice. And the Indian population needs justice.-President Gustavo Noboa, January 23, 2000 For five centuries, the Indians had very little... (read more) Your price: $37.75 New - Trade Paper
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Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 by Nara B. Milanich Synopsis In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing... (read more) List Price $89.95 Your price: $87.75 New - Hardcover
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Walking Ghosts : Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (06 Edition) by Steven Dudley Publisher Comments In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jaguar Books on Latin America #20: Wars of Independence in Spanish America by Christon I Archer Publisher Comments This volume of readings examines the revolutions, civil wars, guerrilla struggles, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, and interventions of this period. Offering a solid perspective on the Independence period, The Wars of Independence is an excellent... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Sao Paulo and Salvador by Kim D. Butler Publisher Comments Winner of the American Historical Association's Wesley-Logan Prize and the Association of Black Women Historian's Letitia Woods Brown Prize "An important, original, much-needed comparative study of post-emancipation Brazil." --Joao Jose Reis... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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With Broadax and Firebrand : the Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (95 Edition) by Warren Dean Publisher Comments Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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