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Amazon Past Present & Future
by Alain Gheerbrant  Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
by Walter Lafeber Publisher Comments A superb treatment of the evolution of U.S.-Panama relations, Walter LaFeber's The Panama Canal was praised by The Nation as "a balanced, unemotional indictment of the history of the United States in Panama". History hailed it as "the best overall...
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Shabono
by Florinda Donner Publisher Comments Shabano -- the name for the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live -- recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologists Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tribe in the...
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Men and Masculinity #3: Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City
by Matthew Gutmann Publisher Comments In this compelling and readable study of machismo in one of Latin America's most populous cities, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico. In their place he offers a sensitive, wide-ranging, often surprising look at how...
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Child of the Dark the Diary of Carolina
by Carolina De Jesus Publisher Comments A powerful first-hand account of life in the streets of So Paulo from 1955 to 1960 that drew international attention to the plight of the poor....
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Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History
by Elizabeth Salas Publisher Comments Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women warriors--heroines, camp followers, Amazons, coronelas, soldadas, soldaderas, and Adelitas--indicate their...
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Cuba Between Reform & Revolution 2ND Edition
by Louis Perez Publisher Comments Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination...
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Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800
by Joao Capistra Abreu Publisher Comments In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the...
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Expedition To the Ranquel Indians
by Lucio V Mansilla Publisher Comments The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of every nation in the Americas, both North and South. Lucio Mansilla's Una excursion a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one...
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Red White & Green the Maturing Of
by Michael Nels Miller Synopsis This book explores how the arts--film, ballet, music, fine art, and publishing--were used by the Mexican state in its quest for national unity and identity during the presidency of Manuel Avila Camacho (1940-1946)....
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Authoritarian and the Crisis of Argentine
by William C Smith Publisher Comments This study of Argentina over the past 25 years confronts two questions: Why has Argentina, one of Latin America's wealthiest and most developed nations, failed so tragically to reconcile economic modernization and liberal democracy? Why have...
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Mexican Anarchism After the Revolution
by Donald C Hodges Publisher Comments Formal anarchist organizations disappeared in Mexico after the 1910 Revolution, but anarchist principles survive in the popular resistance movements against the post-revolutionary governments. In this book, Donald Hodges offers the first comprehensive...
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Scattering the Ashes
by Maria Del Carm Boza Publisher Comments "Scattering The Ashes" is a book about exile, about Cuba and her offspring, and about the power of history and politics over Cubans' daily lives. Maria del Carmen Boza tells that shared history through the private story of a family living and adapting...
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The last new world :the conquest of the Amazon frontier
by Mac Margolis Book News Annotation Margolis, who has worked as a reporter in Latin America for the last 10 years, calls for a new kind of land aesthetic, a sort of middle way for the Amazon that weds the people there and their requirements for survival to the exigencies of the...
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The University System & Economic Development in Mexico Since 1929
by David E. Lorey Publisher Comments For decades, Mexican leaders and scholars as well as outside observers have spoken of a Mexican university system in crisis, expressing concern over student political activism and violence, declining quality of instruction and facilities, crowded...
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Eight bright candles :courageous women of Mexico
by Doris E Perlin Publisher Comments Eight Bright Candles is a compelling profile of daring women who chose not to comply with conditions dictated by their men or society. They instead fought for political freedom and raised their voices to improve life for less fortunate people. For a few,...
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Justice Beyond Our Borders
by Christ Biebesheimer Synopsis Improving systems of justice in Latin America is important to consolidate democracy and develop equitable and efficient market economies. Judicial reform involves strengthening the rule of law and developing a modern and transparent juridical process as...
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Fidel: A Critical Portrait
by Tad Szulc Publisher Comments Never before has any biographer had such close personal access to Fidel Castro. The outcome of a long, direct relationship, this riveting portrait reveals astonishing facts about Cuba, the revolution, and this notoriously controversial leader through the...
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Report of the International Commission for Central American Recovery & Development
by William Ascher Publisher Comments The 1980s were one of the most turbulent decades in Central America's history, a history that has been marked by more than its share of strife and upheaval. The wars, economic hardship, and political unrest and instability that have dominated news of the...
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Location of Jobs in a Developing Metropolis: Patterns of Growth in Bogota & Cali, Colombia
by Kyu Sik Lee Publisher Comments Kyu here discusses new statistics on employment location in Bogota and Cali, Colombia through analysis of a survey questionnaire answered by sample firms in these cities, and presents econometric studies of the determinants of business location....
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