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Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution by Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970, a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscience.Alma Guillermoprieto—an award–winning journalist and arguably our most clear-eyed... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nation-Making in Andean Peru (Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations) by Mark Thurner Publisher Comments "Given its remarkable intellectual depth and range, this book will emerge as one of the most widely read and admired works in Andean studies and beyond. This is historical anthropology at its very best."-- Paul Gootenberg, State University of New York at... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism & the Search for Development by Lois Hech Oppenheim About the Author Lois Hecht Oppenheim is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Judaism College of Arts and Sciences.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz Publisher Comments The searing memoir of an American nun, her torture in Guatemala, her campaign to reveal the truth, and her struggle to heal. In 1989, while working as a missionary in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline, was abducted by security... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet by Patricia Politzer Publisher Comments "Like a Garcia Marquez novel that has suddenly, horrifyingly, come to real life" (New York Newsday), Fear in Chile is an extraordinary collection of first-person accounts of life under dictatorship. In the 1980s, shortly after Chile emerged from one of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco Leon de La Barra and the Mexican Revolution (Latin American Silhouettes) by Peter V N Henderson Publisher Comments Francisco Le-n de la Barra became president pro-temp of Mexico in 1911 after the fall of Porfirio Diaz as a result of the Treaty of Ciudad Jurez. He played a pivotal role in the early Mexican Revolution. This biography of de la Barra, longtime... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women of Mexico City 1790 1857 by Silvia Marina Arrom Publisher Comments This pioneering study confronts three main questions about this era in Mexico City: Were women's roles as narrow and unimportant as has been assumed? To what extent were women dominated by men? Can significant differences be found between younger and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Guerrilla Strategy, Politics and Revolution by Che Guevara Publisher Comments A new, revised and expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic. This reader is the bestselling, most comprehensive selection of Che Guevara's writings, letters and speeches available in English. This volume covers Che's writings on the Cuban revolutionary... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Latin America in Crisis by John W Sherman Publisher Comments Latin America in Crisis builds a clear-eyed consideration of the fundamental economic and political realities of Latin America today onto a framework of introductory history. It is a concise core text for Latin American survey courses that require both a... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Latin America on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985 by Thomas E Skidmore Publisher Comments The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960 by Robert H Holden Publisher Comments Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working women, working men :Säao Paulo and the rise of Brazil's industrial working class, 1900-1955 by Joel Wolfe Publisher Comments In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Answer Only to God: Politics and the Military in Panama, 1903-1947 by Thomas Pearcy Publisher Comments Who can forget the televised drama of American troops tracking down Panama's ruler, General Noriega, in 1989? How did that event come to pass? Narcopolitics--or money from illegal drugs influencing national affairs--is not the sole answer. The... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon by Michael Goulding Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-246) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Delinquency in Puerto Rico: The 1970 Birth Cohort Study by Dora Nevares and Marvin E. Wolfgang and Paul E. Tracy Publisher Comments This volume describes the findings of a longitudinal, birth cohort study of juvenile delinquency in Puerto Rico. Carried out under the auspices of the Puerto Rican Senate's Special Crime Commission, the book represents a new type of birth cohort study... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay by John Gimlette Publisher Comments A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.” Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Letters of Love & Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five by Nancy Morejon Publisher Comments Introduced by Alice Walker and with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejn, this book includes excerpts from diaries and letters from and to children, wives, and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for "espionage," providing a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Jaguar Books on Latin America #0010: Democracy in Latin America: Patterns and Cycles: Patterns and Cycles by Roderic Ai Camp Publisher Comments Events such as the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement have made it imperative for students to grasp the history and possible directions of Latin American political change. This title gives readers both the background and the analytical... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Case of the Ugly Suitor & Other Histories of Love, Gender, & Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870 (Engendering Latin America) by Jeffrey M Shumway Publisher Comments In 1840 Gumerscindo Arroyo hoped to marry Francisca Canicoba, but her father forbade it. Consequently, Francisca took her father to court for permission to marry, where he objected on the grounds that Arroyo was simply too ugly. In the courtrooms of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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