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Haiti since 1804: Critical Perspectives on Class, Power, and Gender by Alex Dupuy 9781538188262
RRP: £25.00£22.43Leading scholar Alex Dupuy investigates themes of class, power, and gender in Haiti in the capitalist world-economy-from independence and indemnity to the US occupation and current crisis after the assassination of President Moise. This book provides new... -
Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure by Mark Honigsbaum 9780312425180
RRP: £24.00£16.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425180Author Mark HonigsbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin
£19.40After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and... -
Roots of Brazil by Sergio Buarque De Holanda
RRP: £23.99£20.41Sergio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of... -
Every Trick in the Book by Iain Hood 9781913724924
RRP: £10.00£8.02'There's only control, control of ourselves and others. And you have to decide what part you play in that control.' Cast your eye over the comfortable north London home of a family of high ideals, radical politics and compassionate feelings. Julia,... -
The Surrendered: Reflections by a Son of Shining Path by Jose Carlos Aguero
RRP: £21.99£18.79When Peruvian public intellectual Jose Carlos Aguero was a child, the government imprisoned and executed his parents, who were members of Shining Path. In The Surrendered-originally published in Spanish in 2015 and appearing here in English for the first... -
The Invention of Argentina by Nicolas Shumway
RRP: £29.00£23.08The nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose and identity. In "The Invention of Argentina", Nicholas Shumway offers a cultural history of one nation's efforts to determine its nature, its destiny, and its place... -
Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan by Stefan Rinke
RRP: £26.99£22.80A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors, timed with the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital of... -
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic Dream by Juliana Barbassa
RRP: £16.00£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476756264Author Juliana BarbassaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War by Vanni Pettina 9781469669762
RRP: £24.95£20.26While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict. In this book, available for the first time in English, Vanni Pettina makes sense of the region's diverse, complex political experiences of... -
The Wind that Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942 by Anita Brenner
RRP: £25.99£22.44The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but... -
The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport
RRP: £25.99£23.26Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of... -
Maya History: A Captivating Guide to the Maya Civilization, Culture, Mythology, and the Maya Peoples' Impact on Mesoamerican History by Captivating History 9781725057920
RRP: £14.67£12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725057920Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Mexican Dream: Or, the Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations by J. M. G. Le Clezio
RRP: £15.00£14.87Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature J. M. G. Le Clezio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clezio's haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of... -
Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil by Christopher Dunn 9781469628516
RRP: £32.95£31.27Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventivecultural production and intense social transformations that emerged duringthe rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies.The Brazilian contracultura was... -
Who is Rigoberta Menchu? by Greg Grandin 9781844674589
RRP: £14.99£12.91In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography-I, Rigoberta Menchu-transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought... -
Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War by Andra B. Chastain
RRP: £31.00£25.65Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent... -
Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela by Justin Podur
RRP: £18.99£15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679166Author Justin PodurFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador by Jocelyn Viterna 9780199843657
£48.81Waging war has historically been an almost exclusively male endeavor. Yet, over the past several decades women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers. Why do women become guerrilla insurgents? What experiences do they have in... -
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala by Rachel Nolan 9780674270350
RRP: £29.95£23.19The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother... -
Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru by Kathryn Burns
RRP: £23.99£20.41Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people's words in official forms and make them legally true. Thus the first thing Columbus... -
Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia by Robert A. Karl 9780520293939
RRP: £30.00£27.39Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between... -
Speeches By Errol Barrow by Errol G. Barrow 9781870518703
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518703Author Haniff YussufFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 535g -
Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 by William F. Sater
RRP: £40.00£34.72The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw... -
Stone of Kings: In Search of The Lost Jade of The Maya by Gerard Helferich 9780762782543
RRP: £11.99£10.15A book perfectly timed for the re-setting of the Maya calendar in 2012.... Part history, popular science, armchair travel, and real-life treasure hunt, this is the story of pre-Columbian jade—the precious stone revered by ancient Aztecs, Incans, and... -
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas by Professor Amy C. Offner 9780691190938
RRP: £35.00£27.61The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new... -
The Devil and Mr Casement: One Man's Struggle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman
RRP: £21.99£14.56In September 1910, the human rights activist and anti-imperialist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in the vast forests stretching along the Putumayo river. There, the Peruvian entrepreneur... -
Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America by Sebastian Mazzuca
RRP: £42.50£41.28A major contribution to the field of comparative state formation and the scholarship on long-term political development of Latin America"Ambitious and rich. . . . A sweeping and general theory of state formation and detailed historical reconstruction of... -
Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890–1945 by Rafael Cardoso
RRP: £44.99£38.38Modernity in Black and White provides a groundbreaking account of modern art and modernism in Brazil. Departing from previous accounts, mostly restricted to the elite arenas of literature, fine art and architecture, the book situates cultural debates... -
Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World by R. Alan Covey 9780190299125
RRP: £30.49£27.46Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the European invasions of the Inca realm, and the way that the Spanish transformation of the Andes relates to broader changes occurring in the transition from medieval to early modern Europe. The book is... -
In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800-1870 by Jesus Sanjurjo
RRP: £46.95£38.70Details the abolition of the slave trade in the Atlantic World to the 1860s.Throughout the nineteenth century, very few people in Spain campaigned to stop the slave trade and did even less to abolish slavery. Even when some supported abolition, the... -
Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3 by Eduardo Galeano
£11.79The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbulent century: from the bucolic New Jersey labouratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano... -
Bolivia in the Age of Gas by Bret Gustafson
RRP: £24.99£21.23Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in the Age of Gas, Bret... -
Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias by Nicole von Germeten
RRP: £25.95£21.04This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a... -
The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826 by John Lynch 9780393955378
RRP: £28.50£24.27John Lynch provides a brilliant survey of the men and the movements during these critical years. He views the revolutionary outbreak as the culmination of a long process of alienation from Spain during which Spanish Americans became aware of their own... -
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba
RRP: £30.00£23.22How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter... -
State of War: MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence by William Wheeler
RRP: £11.99£10.34The story of MS-13 and its American roots One of President Donald Trump's favorite rhetorical motifs is stoking fear that members of the MS-13 gang from El Salvador intend to cross the U.S. border in force and wreak havoc on American society. It's an... -
Sovereign Emergencies: Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics by Patrick William Kelly
RRP: £23.99£20.37The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes,... -
Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses
RRP: £58.00£44.77The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S... -
The Caste War of Yucatan by Nelson Reed
RRP: £29.99£26.39This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history-the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatan against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving...