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by Georgie Anne Geyer  Publisher Comments With Guerrilla Prince, syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer calls on her twenty-five years of experience covering Latin America to create an extraordinary biography that finally reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro. Based on hundreds of... (read more)  List Price $32.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Robert M. Levine Publisher Comments This book examines the life and times of Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian dictator and president for most of the period from 1930 to 1954. It asks how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Edgar Wideman Publisher Comments In this compelling travel memoir, author John Edgar Wideman explores Martinique' s seductive natural beauty and culture, as well as its vexed history of colonial violence and racism. Attempting to decipher the strange, alluring mixture of African and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernesto Che Guevara Synopsis Guevara's day-by-day chronicle of the 1966-67 guerrilla campaign in Bolivia. A painstaking effort to forge a continent-wide revolutionary movement of workers and peasants capable of seizing state power Includes excerpts from the diaries and accounts of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Javier Villa-flores Book News Annotation Villas-Flores (history and Latin American and Latino studies, U. of Illinois-Chicago) explores the connection between blasphemy and religious belief by analyzing the social uses of blasphemous speech among different groups in colonial Mexico between... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Hodges Publisher Comments Mexico Under Seige is a readable and well-informed political history covering the period from the ruling PRI's lurch to the right in 1940 through to its eventual departure from office in the elections of 2000. Based on two decades of interview material... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donna J Guy Publisher Comments A study of prostitution necessarily examines questions of power, class, gender, and public health. In Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires these questions combine with particular force. During most of the time covered in this provocative book, from the late... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Hershberg Publisher Comments A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America. <BR>""Where have the economic policies succeeded? This is not a matter of ideology, it is political, technical, a matter of practical judgment.""--Manuel Lopez... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bradley Lyn Coleman Synopsis Filling the gap in the available literature on U.S. relations with less-developed countries, author Bradley Coleman provides new research on the development of the U.S.-Colombian alliance that will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars of U.S. and... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $34.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Silverburg Publisher Comments With a historian's attention to fact and a novelist's gift for the dramatic, Silverberg brings the legend of El Dorado to life once more.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by D. H. Figueredo and Frank Argote-Freyre Book News Annotation This reference for high school and up examines the historical events that have shaped the islands of the Caribbean Sea, beginning with an account of the indigenous populations and ending with the major political and economic developments taking place... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Brentlinger Publisher Comments The Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua inspired many North Americans, including the author of this moving and informative book. John Brentlinger made six trips to Nicaragua, both before and after the defeat of the Sandinista Party. Combining the insights... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorge Castaneda Publisher Comments Castaneda offers a remarkably candid account of Mexican presidential politics, "destined to become the most important political book of the decade" ("Foreign Policy"). In six penetrating essays combined with interviews with each of the living Mexican ex... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Defibaugh Publisher Comments The people of Oaxaca, Mexico, believe the souls of the dead, the antepasados, return every year for a twenty-four-hour visit. They are welcomed into their former homes with gaily decorated altars and offerings of food and gifts. Then they are escorted... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lib Crandon Malamud Publisher Comments "From the Fat of Our Souls" offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments This collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin, noted poet and editor, is presented in both Spanish and English. Published to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights, this book joins two of Agosin's most acclaimed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Vict Lastarria Publisher Comments Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henri J M Nouwen Publisher Comments In this journal of his travels in Bolivia and Peru, Nouwen ponders the presence of God in the poor, the challenge of a persecuted church, the relation between faith and justice, and his own struggle to discern the path along which God is calling him... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elijah Wald Publisher Comments In the first full-length exploration of the contemporary Mexican corrido, award-winning author Elijah Wald blends a travel narrative with his search for the roots of this unusual and controversial genre -- a modern outlaw music that blends the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Herbert S Klein Publisher Comments A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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