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by Patrick Symmes  Publisher Comments In a remarkable, original work of investigative history, Symmes explains the political and social complexities of Cuba today, by illuminating the particular Cuba from which Fidel Castro emerged.... (read more)  List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gioconda Belli Publisher Comments An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer ("A wonderfully free and original talent" — Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Phillip Santos Publisher Comments In this beautifully wrought memoir, an award-winning writer weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the soul of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael C Meyer Publisher Comments Still the leading survey text on Mexican history from the pre-Columbian period to the present, this thoroughly updated edition of The Course of Mexican History introduces a new co-author, Susan Deeds. This sixth edition offers a fresh understanding of... (read more) List Price $57.95 Your price $38.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry E Vanden Publisher Comments Politics of Latin America explores both the evolution and the current state of the political scene in Latin America. Distinguishing itself from more traditional works on Latin American politics, this text demonstrates a nuanced sensitivity to the use and... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lavaca Collective Publisher Comments The worker-run factories of Argentina offer an inspirational example of a struggle for social change that has achieved a real victory against corporate globalization. Lavaca is an Argentine editorial and activist collective. Naomi Klein is an award... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Cramer Publisher Comments Whether travelers to Cuba plan to stay for a week or a year, they'll benefit from such topics as the rules of driving and monetary systems, religious practices, and making friend. This "Culture Shock!" volume attempts to cross the bridge into a new and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Enrique Krauze Publisher Comments The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments "Praise for the first edition: <BR>"Farmer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at [the village of] Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge.... The book is at the same time fiercely personal and... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark A Burkholder Publisher Comments This highly acclaimed text, now in its fourth edition, provides a concise study of the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World from their preconquest background to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. The new edition of... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Victoria Rodriguez Publisher Comments Although Mexico was once recognized for the stability of its strongly centralist one-party political system, events occurring since the mid-1980s have made it increasingly difficult for both the government and the ruling party to sustain legitimacy and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick St Weaver Publisher Comments Latin America in the World Economy considers the dual aspect of Latin American development: how external factors (phases of world capitalism since Columbus) interweave with internal factors (Latin American culture, politics, and social groups). Within... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Harris Publisher Comments This new edition coincides with the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara's death and the 80th anniversary of his birth. Updated with a new epilogue. Richard L. Harris includes in this updated edition of Death of a Revolutionary new revelations about Che's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diego De Landa Publisher Comments Only significant account done of Yucatan in post-Conquest era. Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest and its effects, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ricardo Flore Magon Publisher Comments Along with Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magon (b. 1874) is regarded as one of the most important figures of the Mexican revolution. Through his newspaper "Regeneracion," he boldly criticized the injustices of the country's military dictatorship and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Whitaker 
Publisher Comments THE TREK THAT LAY AHEAD OF ISABEL stretched more than 3,000 miles. Even if all went well, it would take her more than six months. The route east out of Riobamba would skirt around towering Mt. Tungurahua, known to spit fire and rocks into the sky. It... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Earl Shorris Publisher Comments A "San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book of 2004: "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico."--"History Today" <BR>"The Life and Times of Mexico" is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nanc Scheper Hughes Synopsis Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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