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Fidel: a Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc 9780380808885
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380808885Author Tad SzulcFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476g -
What if Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
RRP: £14.99£10.95For most Westerners, Latin America is the junior partner of the New World, an underdeveloped sibling to the US and Canada. The vibrancy of its culture is unquestionable, but the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries of Central and South America are... -
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez
RRP: £10.99£7.25The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernandez, The Lords of el... -
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie 9780099285229
RRP: £9.99£7.11An extraordinary and vivid introduction to the country of Nicaragua and its politics from the Booker-winning author of Midnight's Children.In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of... -
Brazil: A Biography by Heloisa M. Starling
RRP: £19.99£14.28Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSince Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of... -
Clandestine In Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173404Author Gabriel Garcia MarquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Che Guevara And The Cuban Revolution by Mike Gonzalez 9781898876458
RRP: £8.00£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876458Author Mike GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 229g -
Haiti: The Tumultuous History - from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation by Philippe Girard
RRP: £13.99£11.98In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into Haiti's complex and layered past, showing that its... -
A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present by Ezequiel Adamovsky 9781478025436
RRP: £25.99£22.04In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities,... -
Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years by Peter J. Lapp 9781637589595
RRP: £22.00£14.84As a spy prepared to give away America's biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her.U.S. government officials knew they had a spy. But it never occurred to them it was a woman-and certainly not a superstar Defense... -
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew 9780691202341
RRP: £22.00£16.99Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations-a world in which self-determination was... -
Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman by Will Grant
RRP: £9.99£7.11'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is 'A... -
Don Roberto: The Adventure of Being Cunninghame Graham by James Jauncey 9781910895764
RRP: £24.99£17.71'A combination of all that is best in memoir, biography and history.' - Caroline Moorehead 'In this remarkable book... Jauncey has performed the great service of reminding us of a wonderful figure from Scotland's recent history.' - Alexander McCall... -
A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, Vol 1 1492-1845: From the Conquest of Cuba to La Escalera by Phillip Sheldon Foner 9780717808601
RRP: £18.99£16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808601Author Phillip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc... -
Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis by John D. Gresham 9780471670223
RRP: £25.99£24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471670223Author John D. GreshamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney 9781788731157
RRP: £9.99£8.41In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale,... -
We Will Return as Millions: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia by Linda Farthing
RRP: £16.99£11.67In three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales' pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching halt. President Morales was forced to resign after... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie
RRP: £9.99£6.64The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who... -
Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Paula Delgado-Kling 9781682194478
RRP: £17.99£12.30Set in the author's homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC... -
Blood Gun Money: Firearms Trafficking Along America's Iron River by Ioan Grillo
RRP: £14.99£11.81From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade. Guns from America reach more than 130 countries, and inundate Mexico, with over... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie 9781788738842
RRP: £14.99£9.70Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues they left for us to unravel, there's no question that they earned their place in history. Pick any... -
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
RRP: £24.99£15.15This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two... -
Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia's Pluri-economy by Kate Maclean 9781517915964
RRP: £23.99£20.41A groundbreaking feminist perspective on Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) rule in Bolivia and the country's radical transformation under Evo Morales The presidency of Evo Morales in Bolivia (2006-2019) has produced considerable academic scholarship,... -
Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring by Gregory Makoff 9781647123970
RRP: £24.00£20.89The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on... -
A Dream Deferred: Guyanese Identity and the Shadow of Colonialism by Stephen Spencer 9781870518772
RRP: £7.99£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518772Author Stephen SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 173g -
Congo Diary: Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto Che Guevara
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210727Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
RRP: £13.99£9.20The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing... -
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America by Michael Reid
RRP: £15.99£12.66A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has... -
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Juarez by Sandra Rodriguez Nieto
RRP: £9.99£6.64The intimate story of a teenager s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like... -
The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures by Florina Cristiana Matei 9781538160817
RRP: £108.00£102.03The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures explores the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to develop an intelligence culture. Specifically, it analyzes these countries' efforts to democratize their... -
Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project by Commune or Nothing! Chris Gilbert 9781685900236
RRP: £19.99£16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900236Author Commune or Nothing! Chris GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S... -
The Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini
RRP: £22.00£17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679821Author Ruy Mauro MariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Forbes Burnham: The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader by Linden F. Lewis 9781978837515
RRP: £43.00£36.81It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. As premier of British Guiana, he led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state until his... -
The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento by Beatriz Nascimento 9780691241203
RRP: £25.00£19.18Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker... -
A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable 9780393309850
RRP: £22.99£19.43How Chile, once South America's most stable democracy, gave way to a culture of fear. The authors explain and illuminate the rift in Chilean society that widened dramatically during the Pinochet era.About the AuthorPamela Constable is a Deputy Foreign... -
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew
£38.17Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations-a world in which self-determination was... -
Pinochet in Piccadilly by Andy Beckett
RRP: £10.99£7.77In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about... -
The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea 9781838606237
RRP: £23.99£20.94From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and... -
Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to... -
The Venezuela case: An story to how 21st Century Socialism destroyed a country. by Fernando German M 9781091678798
RRP: £15.99£14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781091678798Author Fernando German MFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...