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Wild Shores of Patagonia: The Valdes Peninsula and Punta Tombo by Jasmine Rossi Synopsis Patagonia, on the southern tip of South America, is one of the world's greatest wildlife habitats. This book is an illustrated window on the life-and-death struggles of the wild animals that live there, including photographs of killer whales, elephant... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narcocorrido a Journey Into the Music by Elijah Wald Publisher Comments In the first full-length exploration of the contemporary Mexican corrido, award-winning author Elijah Wald blends a travel narrative with his search for the roots of this unusual and controversial genre -- a modern outlaw music that blends the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Slavery in Latin America & the C by Herbert S Klein Publisher Comments A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie Publisher Comments In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution by Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970, a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscience.Alma Guillermoprieto—an award–winning journalist and arguably our most clear-eyed... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960 by Robert H Holden Publisher Comments Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nation-Making in Andean Peru (Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations) by Mark Thurner Publisher Comments "Given its remarkable intellectual depth and range, this book will emerge as one of the most widely read and admired works in Andean studies and beyond. This is historical anthropology at its very best."-- Paul Gootenberg, State University of New York at... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working women, working men :Säao Paulo and the rise of Brazil's industrial working class, 1900-1955 by Joel Wolfe Publisher Comments In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca by Benjamin S Orlove Publisher Comments Part ethnography, part natural history, part memoir, Ben Orlove's book reflects on the changes that have taken place over 30 years in the fishing villages along the shores of Lake Titicaca.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon by Michael Goulding Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-246) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $24.95 (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   Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960 by Bradley Lyn Coleman Synopsis Filling the gap in the available literature on U.S. relations with less-developed countries, author Bradley Coleman provides new research on the development of the U.S.-Colombian alliance that will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars of U.S. and... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $34.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado by Robert Silverburg Publisher Comments With a historian's attention to fact and a novelist's gift for the dramatic, Silverberg brings the legend of El Dorado to life once more.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting for Fidel by Christopher Hunt Synopsis The New York Times says, "Christopher Hunt makes a lively travel companion." This time he has set his sights on Cuba, where crumbling but elegant facades overlook shady street activities, where vintage Ford Fairlanes rumble past Soviet Ladas in the fast... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier by Amy Wilentz Publisher Comments Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti's extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz, a brilliant young writer/ reporter, brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 (Latin America) by Jeffrey L Gould Publisher Comments Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially forgotten indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521 by Bernal Del Castillo Publisher Comments Bernal Díaz del Castillo(1495–1584) served under Cortés through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable hirstorical document and a spectacular epic. He was with... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism & the Search for Development by Lois Hech Oppenheim About the Author Lois Hecht Oppenheim is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Judaism College of Arts and Sciences.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz Publisher Comments The searing memoir of an American nun, her torture in Guatemala, her campaign to reveal the truth, and her struggle to heal. In 1989, while working as a missionary in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline, was abducted by security... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet by Patricia Politzer Publisher Comments "Like a Garcia Marquez novel that has suddenly, horrifyingly, come to real life" (New York Newsday), Fear in Chile is an extraordinary collection of first-person accounts of life under dictatorship. In the 1980s, shortly after Chile emerged from one of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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