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Chile Since Independence by Leslie Bethell Publisher Comments Chile Since Independence brings together four chapters from Volumes III, V and VIII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Chile since independence. Each chapter is... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mexico :from Montezuma to NAFTA, Chiapas, and beyond by Jaime Suchlicki Publisher Comments In this concise thousand-year history, one of the world's foremost scholars on Latin America explains how Mexico's dynamic present and future flow directly from its rich past.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Andes by Tui De Roy Publisher Comments South America's Andes mountain range is the youngest, longest and most geologically varied on the planet. This book explains essential geological and environmental facts demonstrated in regions, and illustrates them in stunning color photographs.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Independence of Latin America by Leslie Bethell Publisher Comments The Independence of Latin America is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America Volume 3. The first chapter deals with the origins of independence from Spain; the next two consider the struggle for independence in Mexico and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Engendering Latin America #6: Class Mates: Male Student Culture and and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Andrew J Kirkendall Publisher Comments This innovative study considers how approximately seven thousand male graduates of law came to understand themselves as having a legitimate claim to authority over nineteenth-century Brazilian society during their transition from boyhood to manhood.<P&... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and L) by Barry J Lyons Publisher Comments From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa--Quichua-speaking indigenous people--worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list More Terrible Than Death: Massacre, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia by Robin Kirk Publisher Comments Violence, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia. New in paperback.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blindfold's Eyes by Dianna Ortiz Publisher Comments This searing memoir of an American nun who was abducted and tortured in Guatemala--and continues to search for healing and justice--shows that the human spirit is a force stronger than violence and fear.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Honorable Exiles: A Chilean Woman in the Twentieth Century by Lillian Tagle Publisher Comments De Tagle is a truly gifted storyteller and is able to capture her life and the political circumstances of her time with great bravado. I found her book funny, entertaining, amusing, joyful, and sad. A wonderful memoir. --Marjorie Agosin, Professor and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States by John A Britton Book News Annotation Britton (history, Francis Marion College) examines American accounts from 1910 to 1960 on fifty years of social upheaval in Mexico, drawing on narratives from cultural, business, and political leaders as well as journalists and academics, including... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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   Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts (Latin American Silhouettes) by June Edith Hahner Publisher Comments The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica by Marc Edelman Publisher Comments In Costa Rica in the early 1980s, the Latin American debt crisis forced major cutbacks in social programs that had improved the standard of living of the rural poor. Peasants were in the forefront of movements against these cutbacks and emerge in this... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba by Verena Martinez-alier Publisher Comments A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba<BR>... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments On February 29th, 2004 the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The twice elected President was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, American soldiers and flown, against his will,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader by John Womack Publisher Comments America's leading scholar of Mexico traces the roots of the current crisis in Chiapas, examining the Zapatista revolt and chronicling the attempts at a negotiated peace.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City (Women in Culture & Society) by Lourdes Beneria Publisher Comments In this innovative exploration of the interaction between economic processes and social relations, Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan examine the effect of homework on gender and family dynamics. Their fieldwork in Mexico City during 1981-82 has enabled... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy by Julia Preston Publisher Comments The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Radical Evil on Trial by Carlo Santiago Nino Publisher Comments In this book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a provocative first-hand analysis of developments in Argentina during the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government. Nino played a key role in guiding the transition to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Search for Development by Lois Hech Oppenheim Publisher Comments In her historically grounded investigation of the dramatic political changes in Chile over the past thirty years, Lois Oppenheim focuses on identifying the dynamics of political conflict underlying this turbulent period. After a brief historical overview,... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture by Larissa Adl Lomnitz Publisher Comments "This is a rare glimpse into the family in the Mexican elite, and it provides us with an unusual depth of understanding. In a sense, the authors do for the upper sector what Oscar Lewis did for the lower sector."--Richard N. Adams, University of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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