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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
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Winner of the National Book Award 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... (read more)

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Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more)

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Mexico, Reader : History, Culture, Politics (02 Edition)
Mexico, Reader : History, Culture, Politics (02 Edition)
by Gilbert M. Joseph
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The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the... (read more)

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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
by Charles Bowden
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Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In... (read more)

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The Argentina Reader: History, Culture and Society (Latin America Readers)
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture and Society (Latin America Readers)
by Gabriela Nouzeilles
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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)

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Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
by Laurent Dubois
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This volume details the first slave rebellion to have a successful outcome, leading to the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. Incited by the... (read more)

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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution
by T J English
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To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob—with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban... (read more)

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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
by Mark Bowden
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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)

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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
by Carlos Eire
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National Book Award-winning memoir of exile from a tangerine-colored paradise: “Eire has done a splendid job….Masterfully written, bursting with wonderful details and images and populated by characters so well described that they seem to be... (read more)

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Guatemalan Journey
Guatemalan Journey
by Stephen Benz
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Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written... (read more)

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Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution
Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution
by Armando Choy and Gustavo Chui and Moises Sio Wong
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A chapter in the chronicle of the Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong — three young rebels of Chinese-Cuban ancestry — threw themselves into the... (read more)

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Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (Pitt Latin American)
Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (Pitt Latin American)
by Kenneth P Serbin
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Secret Dialogues uncovers an unexpected development in modern Latin American history: the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship. During the brutal term of Emílio... (read more)

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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin Classics)
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin Classics)
by Bartolome De Las Casas
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No work is a stronger, more exacting, heartbreaking record of the Spanish atrocities in the genocidal enterprise of colonization in the Americas. This account provides an eyewitnessÆs history of the process in the territory of Columbus.... (read more)

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Our America and Theirs: Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress--The Debate at Punta del Este
Our America and Theirs: Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress--The Debate at Punta del Este
by Ernesto Che Guevara
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To check the spread of revolution in Latin America in 1961, Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress—a program for free trade and development in the Americas. Che Guevara , described by Time magazine as “Cuba’s scraggle-bearded... (read more)

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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
by Alm Guillermoprieto
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Since Alma Guillermoprieto became The New Yorker's Latin American correspondent a decade ago, she has emerged as the most informed and admired writer on her part of the world. In these superb pieces of reportage and analysis she anatomizes a region we... (read more)

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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
by Jon Lee Anderson
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Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more)

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The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela
The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela
by Kurt Weyland
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"Kurt Weyland has written an important book. From now on, it will be very hard to write about Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela or about complex political transitions without relying on the findings and insights that he offers here."--Moises Naim... (read more)

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Real Venezuela (09 Edition)
Real Venezuela (09 Edition)
by Iain Bruce
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Venezuela has become a huge source of hope and inspiration for the Left throughout the world. Some see it as a shining example of how to begin building a successful socialist state, but Western leaders see it as a dangerous enemy and accuse Chá... (read more)

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
by Tariq Ali
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The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chvez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chvez, Tariq Ali shows... (read more)

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Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
by Frances R. Aparicio and Susana Chavez-Silverman
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A new conceptual lexicon challenges the colonizing discourses that traditionally represent Latinas/os.... (read more)

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