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Incidents of Travel in Central Amer Volume 1
by John Lloyd Stephens  Publisher Comments Volume 1 of two-volume work. Almost single-handed discovery of Maya culture; exploration of ruined cities, monuments, temples; customs of Indians. Total in set: 115 drawings.<BR>...
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Bolivia (Oxfam Country Profiles)
by Marcela Lopez Levy Publisher Comments More rural people live below the poverty line in Bolivia than in any other country in the world. While the country's rich natural resources are controlled and exploited by a privileged minority, the indigenous majority struggle to subsist on the poorest...
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The Idea of Race in Latin America: 1870-1940 (Critical Reflections on Latin America Series)
by Richard Graham Publisher Comments From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On the one hand, they aspired to an ever-closer connection to Europe and North America, where, during much of this period...
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Recollection of a Provincial Past: Recuerdos de Provincia (Library of Latin America)
by Domingo F Sarmiento Publisher Comments Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one...
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Selected Writings of Andres Bello (Library of Latin America)
by Fran Lopez-morillas Publisher Comments Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major...
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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
by Stephen G Bunker Publisher Comments "Underdeveloping the Amazon" shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending...
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Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman
by J M Taylor Publisher Comments Eva Perón, one of the most powerful women in the world at the time of her death in 1952, rose from humble origins to international renown as First Lady of Argentina and the force behind the throne of her husband Juan Perón. Despite her immense...
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Footsteps in the jungle :adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics
by Jonathan Eva Maslow Publisher Comments Adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics, related by the prize-winning naturalist writer....
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Leonora: The Buried Story of Guadeloupe (CARAF Books)
by Dany Bebel Gisler Publisher Comments Leonora is very important text that, as it follows the different stages of Leonora's development, introduces the reader to the political, social, and personal struggles of a segment of Guadeloupean society whose story is seldom told....
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The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Twentieth Century: The Twentieth Century
by William H Beezley Publisher Comments This unique collection emphasizes the human element in the study of Latin American history by focusing on the lives of twenty-three men, women, and children. Though they differ widely from each other in background and circumstance, these individuals...
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Revolution in the Americas
by Barry H Barlow Publisher Comments Tracing the emergence of modern revolutions to the early 1500s and setting the stage by comparing and contrasting the main revolutionary movements from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, this book examines modern revolutionary movements in Latin...
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Answered Prayers: Miracles and Milagros Along the Border (Southwest Center)
by Eileen Oktavec Publisher Comments When Catholics in the Southwest ask God or a saint for help, many of them do not merely pray. They also promise or present a gift - a tiny metal object known as a milagro. A milagro, which means "miracle" in Spanish, depicts the object for which a...
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Industry & Underdevelopment
by Stephen H Haber Publisher Comments The recent economic troubles of Mexico should have surprised no one, for the Mexican economy is an unhealthy one whose basic problems extend back to the nineteenth century - that is the major theme of this study of the formative years of...
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Mexican Politics: The Dynamics of Change
by Howard Handelman Publisher Comments This introduction traces the historical development of Mexico's political system. It puts into context current events such as the NAFTA accord, the Chiapas uprising, the economic crisis of 1994 and the downfall of a former president, and demands for...
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Cuba in War Time
by Richard Hardi Davis Publisher Comments In 1896 William Randolph Hearst sent journalist Richard Harding Davis to Cuba to observe the guerrilla warfare being waged against Spain and to inquire into reports of atrocities. Hearst wanted to boost circulation of his recently purchased New York...
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Guyana and Belize :country studies
by Tim Merrill Book News Annotation The series is sponsored by the Department of Army. This volume supersedes the 1969 edition of Area Handbook for Guyana, with contributions describing and analyzing political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and...
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Children of Sanchez
by Oscar Lewis Publisher Comments A deep and intimate account of an actual family from the slums of Mexico City....
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Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba
by Verena Martinez-alier Publisher Comments A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba<BR>...
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Inside the Volcano: The History and Political Economy of Central America (Series in Political Economy & Economic Development in Latin America)
by Frederick St Weaver Publisher Comments Central America sprang into the consciousness of the U.S. public in the late 1970s, propelled by the Nicaraguan revolution and the brutal civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador. The continuing debates over the nature of the conflicts and the role of U.S....
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Engendering Latin America #6: Class Mates: Male Student Culture and and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
by Andrew J Kirkendall Publisher Comments This innovative study considers how approximately seven thousand male graduates of law came to understand themselves as having a legitimate claim to authority over nineteenth-century Brazilian society during their transition from boyhood to manhood.<P&...
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