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by Aran Shetterly  Publisher Comments Why do I fight here in this land so foreign to my own? Why did I come here far from my home and family?and#8230;Is it because I seek adventure? Noand#8230;I am here because I believe that the most important thing for free men to do is to protect the... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by David Stoll Publisher Comments This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor Guatemalans.” Published in the autobiographical... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Federico Foders Synopsis This volume analyzes contemporary economic policy in Latin America and offers a concise overview of the problems and prospects for future economic development.Topics covered include macroeconomic stabilisation, central bank policies in transition... (read more) Your price $19.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jan Rogozinski Publisher Comments This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than 500 years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. The superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony G Coates Publisher Comments This book brings together a complete range of information on the cultural and natural history of Central America, the slim geographical bridge that separates two continents and two vast tropical oceans. Chapters by leading authorities discuss geological... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sergi Diaz Briquets Publisher Comments While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded--by a new government. Among the many questions... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christine Mar Kovic Publisher Comments This impressive work on human rights organizing in Chiapas provides a deep and broad view of the struggle that gained front-page attention through the Zapatista revolt that shook Mexico, beginning in the 1990s. Through living in the area, Professor Kovic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathleen Sands Publisher Comments Charreria celebrates an equestrian tradition whose roots are in sixteenth-century Spain but which developed into a unique form of horsemanship in the physical and cultural landscapes of the New World. It is an enormously popular tradition in Mexico... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colin A. Palmer Publisher Comments In this first scholarly assessment of Williams (1911-1981), founder of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party and the nation's first prime minister, Palmer explores his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by C M Mayo Publisher Comments Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Here are writings — many translated... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Wright Publisher Comments The first oral history of those who fled the brutality unleashed by the coup over tewnty-five years ago.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Calvert Publisher Comments Arising from the Ford Foundation Southampton project on North/South security relations, this study focuses on the concept of security in Central America and the Caribbean, and on perceptions by states in the region of the rival claims of political... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Hunt Strother Publisher Comments When David Hunter Strother, also known by his pen name Porte Crayon, arrived as U.S. consul general in Mexico City in 1879, Mexico and its society, only a decade removed from French occupation, were initially struggling with questions of national order... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $36.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Foehr Synopsis Based in Havana and Santiago de Cuba, travelling through the towns and villages in between, Stephen Foehr takes us on a tour of Cuba's history and culture. He goes in search of the roots and influences of the island's unique music, interviewing musicians,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Twigg Publisher Comments Tiny, island-dotted Belize, perched on the Caribbean, south of Mexico and east of Guatemala, is a fascinating blend of Creole, Mestizo, Maya, Garifuna, English, East Indian, Mennonite, Lebanese and Chinese cultures. With its colonial background (English... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matilde Mellibovsky Publisher Comments Testimonies collected by Matilde Mellibovsky. Translated from Spanish by Maria & Matthew Proser. Many times I've related this painting (Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Child") to the horrors we have lived through in our country; a terrorist state that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Candace Slater Publisher Comments Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Collinson Publisher Comments A war on the environment, driven by free-market policies, is sweeping Latin America. Thousands of local disputes over the control and use of natural resources have flared up as a result. This wide-ranging anthology provides an up-to-date guide to this... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennif De Hernandez Publisher Comments Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchu, Cherrie Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldua, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Forrest D Colburn Publisher Comments After decades of ideological struggle, much of it in the service of an elusive socialist ideal, Latin America has embraced liberalism--democracy and unfettered markets. But liberalism has triumphed more by default than through exuberance. The region's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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