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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...
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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...
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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...
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Last Colonial Massacre : Latin America in the Cold War (04 Edition)
by Greg Grandin Publisher Comments Latin America today is seen by many as the crown jewel of the U.S. effort to spread freedom throughout the world. During the Cold War, the argument goes, the United States defeated Latin American communism, paving the way for the region's embrace of...
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Silence on the Mountain : Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (02 Edition)
by Daniel Wilkinson Publisher Comments new in paperback Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of...
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Stealing Benefacio's Roses: A Mayan Epic
by Martin Prechtel Publisher Comments Following the acclaimed Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, The Toe...
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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time—The Building of the Panama Canal
by Matthew Parker Publisher Comments A thrilling tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine. The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America....
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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...
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Six Minutes to Freedom
by Kurt Muse Synopsis This highly personal narrative is the gripping true story of civilian Kurt Muse, a real-life hero at the center of an international crisis in Panama, and the Delta Force team that helped him to freedom. 16-page photo insert....
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Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory
by H<'e>ctor Et Al Lindo-fuentes Publisher Comments In January 1932, thousands of peasants in western El Salvador rose up in armed rebellion. Armed mostly with machetes and a few guns, they attacked military garrisons, occupied towns, and looted or destroyed businesses, government buildings and private...
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A Brief History of Central America (Brief History Of...)
by Lynn V. Foster Publisher Comments Central America is a tiny region, broken into seven even smaller nations. More than 5 million North Americans visit these countries every year, exploring Mayan ruins in Guatemala and Belize, discovering the rain forests of Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
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El Salvador (Discovering Central America)
by Charles J. Shields Synopsis Readers learn about the countries, people, economy, geography, and history ofthe countries in Cental America in this series. Full color....
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Panama Lost?u.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal
by Peter M. Sanchez Publisher Comments Sanchez tells the story of how Panama, though one of the smallest Latin American countries, played the largest symbolic role in America's ascent to world power status, particularly during the U. S. almost century-long occupation of the Canal Zone from...
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Cuba : From Columbus To Castro and Beyond (5TH 02 Edition)
by Jaime Suchlicki Publisher Comments A concise overview of Cuba's rich and turbulent history and a glimpse at its possible future....
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When I Was Elena
by Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand Publisher Comments When I Was Elena is an extraordinary account of a young American woman's sojourn in the guerrilla-infested mountains of Guatemala. Shattering the concept of a typical memoir, the author's personal story is interlaced, chapter-for-chapter, with tales told...
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Revolution in the Countryside : Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 (94 Edition)
by Jim Handy Publisher Comments Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya...
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
by Gioconda Belli Publisher Comments An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer ("A wonderfully free and original talent" — Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon...
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David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies #19: Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
by Stephen Kinzer Publisher Comments In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist--and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globein 1981 and...
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Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador (Pitt Latin American)
by Aldo Lauria-santiago Synopsis During the 1980s, El Salvador's violent civil war captured the world's attention. In the years since, the country has undergone dramatic changes. "Landscapes of Struggle" offers a broad, interdisciplinary assessment of El Salvador from the late...
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Ancient Maya (6TH 06 Edition)
by Robert J. Sharer Publisher Comments "The Ancient Maya is the definitive statement for our current understanding of their time and place. It goes well beyond any other competing volume in its encompassing reach."—Journal of Anthropological Research “(T)he most comprehensive and...
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