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by Roderic Ai Camp Publisher Comments Based on information not available previously, this comprehensive study details the history, evolution, and changing relationship between the armed forces and civilian leadership in Mexico in the second half of the 20th century. Camp focuses on the past... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $34.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Kornbluh Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-545).... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Handelsman Publisher Comments Culture and Customs of Ecuador celebrates the extraordinary cultural, geographic, and ethnic diversity that has made this small country one of Latin America's most unique. Through this overview of its history, religious institutions, literature, social... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Samuel Truett Publisher Comments Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul J Dosal Publisher Comments The victory of Fidel Castro's rebel army in Cuba was due in no small part to the training, strategy, and leadership provided by Ernesto Che Guevara. Despite the deluge of biographies, memoirs, and documentaries that appeared in 1997 on the thirtieth... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stephen Benz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gerardo Otero Publisher Comments Having unilaterally opened its borders to international competition and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico has become one of the world’s leading proponents of economic liberalization. Nevertheless, as the recent uprising of native peoples... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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by Ken Lukowiak Synopsis "In Soldier's Song", Ken Lukowiak described the nightmare of war in the Falklands. "Marijuana Time" recalls the years after the war, in which Lukowiak struggled to come to terms with what he had experienced.... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ben Corbett Publisher Comments With personal stories that depict a people torn between following the directives of their government and finding a way to better their lot, journalist Ben Corbett gives readers the daily life of many considered outlaws by Castro's regime.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alejandra Bronfman Publisher Comments In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tim B Wride Synopsis The first comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Cuban photography.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $8.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jose Trias Monge Publisher Comments Former Attorney General and former Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, Jose Trias Monge describes his island as one of the most densely populated places on earth, with a severely distressed economy and limited political freedom--still considered a colony of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tom Barry Publisher Comments Visions of a modernized and industrialized Mexico competing in the global market clash with the sobering reality of a desperate peasantry and falling agricultural production. The crisis and rebellion in Chiapas is the same one confronting most of Mexico... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by David G Campbell Publisher Comments With great narrative, Campbell takes readers with him as he travels 1,200 miles up the Amazon, turns left up the Rio Jurua, and continues for another 28 days to the town of Cruzeiro do Sul where he collects three friends and continues further into the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cristina Marcano Publisher Comments He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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