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Rebels of Highland Guatemala: The Quiche-Mayas of Momostenango by Robert M. Carmack Book News Annotation An ethnohistory of the Quiche-Maya Indians, who have lived in the western highlands of Guatemala since prehispanic times, focusing on their struggle to retain their ethnic and cultural identity in the face of relentless external pressures. Carmack... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois Publisher Comments The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contemporary Inter-American Relations #03: The United States and Venezuela: Rethinking a Relationship by Ja Kelly De Escobar Publisher Comments Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray in the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race and Nation in Modern Latin America by Nancy P Appelbaum Publisher Comments Based on cutting-edge research, these 12 essays examine connections between race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-independence era. They reveal how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time and across the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Recollection of a Provincial Past: Recuerdos de Provincia (Library of Latin America) by Domingo F Sarmiento Publisher Comments Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sad and Luminous Days by James G Blight Publisher Comments In tracing the developments of the Cuban Missile Crisis and beyond, this book presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. Blight and Brenner shed new light on... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $24.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Latin American Heroes by Jerome Adams Publisher Comments Many North Americans are unaware of the history and politics of Latin America, and Latin American Heroes goes a long way to redress this lack of knowledge. These profiles of twenty-three history makers offer a unique view of Latin America through the... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (Inter-American Dialogue Book) by Jorge I. Dominguez Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-439) and index.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman by J M Taylor Publisher Comments Eva Perón, one of the most powerful women in the world at the time of her death in 1952, rose from humble origins to international renown as First Lady of Argentina and the force behind the throne of her husband Juan Perón. Despite her immense... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Twentieth Century: The Twentieth Century by William H Beezley Publisher Comments This unique collection emphasizes the human element in the study of Latin American history by focusing on the lives of twenty-three men, women, and children. Though they differ widely from each other in background and circumstance, these individuals... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   opting for democracy liberation theology & the struggle for democracy in brazil by iain maclean Publisher Comments Maclean (Western religious thought, James Madison University) examines Brazilian liberation theology and its understanding of democracy within its ecclesiastical and national political contexts. He contends that the original theoretical paradigm of... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America by Paul Craig Roberts Publisher Comments The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sparked considerable interest and speculation on the part of Western observers. Less noted, though hardly... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action (Johns Hopkins Studies in Globalization) by Jeffrey T Jackson Publisher Comments In The Globalizers, author Jeffrey T. Jackson studies globalization and development aid in Honduras. While many scholars focus on the transnational corporation, Jackson believes that the international development profession may be even more important for... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas (Latin American Silhouettes Series) by John Lynch Lynch Publisher Comments Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas, is John Lynch's new edition of his 1981 book, shortened for classroom use. The figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century. Charles Darwin... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Selected Writings of Andres Bello (Library of Latin America) by Fran Lopez-morillas Publisher Comments Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Warnings from the Far South: Democracy Versus Dictatorship in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile by William Colum Davis Publisher Comments This work examines three advanced Latin American republics with long records of democracy, political stability, and economic prosperity which degenerated into instability and military dictatorship--and issues a warning for other democratic peoples... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price $37.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of the Conquest of Mexico & History of the Conquest of Peru by William H Prescott Publisher Comments Available in one volume, these two works represent both a triumph over personal adversity and an unsparing saga of religious imperialism.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Survivors in Mexico by Rebecca West Publisher Comments Rebecca West's never-before-published "Survivors in Mexico "brings" "to readers a daring and provocative work by a major twentieth-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art, and culture, it explores the inner lives of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Footsteps in the jungle :adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics by Jonathan Eva Maslow Publisher Comments Adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics, related by the prize-winning naturalist writer.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $3.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose escape from his lavish, mansionlike jail drove a nation to the brink of chaos. In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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