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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 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 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 Walter Lafeber Publisher Comments A superb treatment of the evolution of U.S.-Panama relations, Walter LaFeber's The Panama Canal was praised by The Nation as "a balanced, unemotional indictment of the history of the United States in Panama". History hailed it as "the best overall... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.00 (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 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 Jasper Ridley Publisher Comments A strange episode that is at once a central part of American history and a tragic tale of human ambition and cultural misunderstanding. In an ill-starred undertaking, Napoleon III attempted to install Archduke Maximilian of Austria as the Emperor of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.95 (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 Ernesto Guevara Publisher Comments Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, an essential player in the Cuban Revolution whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid worldwide conjecture, Guevara left Cuba, where he was... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.00 (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 Aviva Chomsky Publisher Comments Cuba is often perceived in starkly black and white terms--either as the site of one of Latin America's most successful revolutions or as the bastion of the world's last communist regime. The Cuba Reader multiplies perspectives on the nation many times... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M Levine Publisher Comments In the dozen years Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977) lived in a So Paulo, Brazil, shanty slum, she survived by rummaging for junk. She also kept a diary of her abject poverty. Black, illegitimate, and poor, she suddenly became at age forty-six Brazils... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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 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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by Nick Caistor Publisher Comments An authoritative and up-to-date guide to to the artistic and fascinating country of Chile, this colorful handbook explores the land, history, politics, economy, society and people. Maps. Photos.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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