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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Peter Lambert
RRP: $56.68$49.25Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a dearth of serious scholarship or journalism about the... -
The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America by Nancy Leys Stepan
RRP: $58.78$49.69Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited... -
Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America by Nicola Miller
RRP: $79.80$61.82An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America-and beyondThe rise of nation-states is a hallmark of the modern age, yet we are still untangling how the phenomenon unfolded across the globe. Here, Nicola... -
Art and Architecture of the Incas by David M. Jones 9781780191386
RRP: $18.88$13.55This is the story of the ancient Andean art, exploring the development of fine and applied art and architecture. Site plans, maps and over 250 illustrations represent the very finest buildings and artworks of these cultures. It is the perfect... -
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Barbara L. Solow 9780739194003
RRP: $84.00$77.55The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system... -
Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America by William Rowe 9780860915416
RRP: $39.88$33.81Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America's popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent... -
Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina by Natalia Milanesio
RRP: $73.50$60.52Under dictatorship in Argentina, sex and sexuality were regulated to the point where sex education, explicit images, and even suggestive material were prohibited. With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual... -
True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx by Sam Quinones 9780826322968
RRP: $50.30$40.93Quinones merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in his search for an authentic modern Mexico. He finds it in part in emigrants, people who use wits and imagination to strike out on their own. In poignant stories from north of the... -
Violent Democracies in Latin America by Enrique Desmond Arias 9780822346388
RRP: $52.48$44.58Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is... -
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations by Adriana Chira
RRP: $157.50$143.09In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Drawing on understudied archives, this pathbreaking work unearths a new history of... -
Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century by Gilbert M. Joseph
RRP: $50.38$42.86In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers;... -
The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
RRP: $41.98$33.79David Frye's skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed between 1600-1616) offers an unprecedented glimpse into pre-colonial Inca society and culture, the Spanish... -
Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945 by Federico Finchelstein
RRP: $54.58$46.28In Transatlantic Fascism, Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections between Argentine and Italian fascisms, showing how fascism circulates transnationally. From the early 1920s well into the Second World War, Mussolini tried... -
The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Brooke Larson 9781478025467
RRP: $54.58$46.28Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian maps the moral dilemmas and political stakes involved in the protracted struggle over Indian literacy and schooling in the Bolivian... -
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gilbert M. Joseph 9780822330424
RRP: $58.78$51.79The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Mexicos-the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection... -
Martyr: Luis De Carvajal, a Secret Jew in Sixteenth-century Mexico by Martin A. Cohen 9780826323620
RRP: $54.50$44.18Traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his family in Spain, their migration to the New World, their religious practices, and their adventures in New Spain until one by one they were put to flight or indicted by the Inquisition.About the... -
Politics in Uniform: Military Officers and Dictatorship in Brazil, 1960-80 by Maud Chirio 9780822965374
$99.25Between 1964 and 1985, Brazil lived under the control of a repressive, anticommunist regime, where generals maintained all power. Respect for discipline and the absence of any and all political activity was demanded of lower ranking officers, while their... -
Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico by Maria Elena Martinez
RRP: $62.98$55.42Maria Elena Martinez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's sistema de castas, a hierarchical system of social classification based... -
Ecuador by Joanne Mattern 9781641281461
RRP: $18.88$15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641281461Author Joanne MatternFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 191mm * 8mm -
Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico by M. M. McAllen 9781595342638
$38.18In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoleon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of... -
The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History by Emma Perez
RRP: $33.58$29.23"The Decolonial Imaginary is a smart, challenging book that disrupts a great deal of what we think we know . . . it will certainly be read seriously in Chicano/a studies." -Women's Review of BooksEmma Perez discusses the historical methodology which has... -
The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo by David Carrasco
RRP: $54.50$45.02The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic ""Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva Espana"", offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and... -
Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay by Jacob Blanc 9780816537143
RRP: $123.90$101.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537143Author Jacob BlancFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 610g -
Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750 by Kris Lane
RRP: $92.38$80.72Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world's seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime... -
Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music by Matthew B. Karush
RRP: $50.38$42.86In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Aleman, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo... -
Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita by Javier Auyero
RRP: $50.38$42.86"Political clientelism" is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor... -
The 33: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar 9781250088949
RRP: $48.28$32.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250088949Author Hector TobarFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272g -
A History of Chile 1808-2018 by Simon Collier
RRP: $62.98$55.31As Chile has continued to grow and prosper in the twenty-first century, this new edition of the definitive history of the country brings the story of its political, social and cultural development up to date. It describes how Ricardo Lagos and Michelle... -
Images at War: Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019) by Serge Gruzinski 9780822326434
RRP: $50.38$42.86"If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance." So writes Serge Gruzinski in... -
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews 9780195152333
$69.07While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to... -
Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy and War by Ms. Grace Livingstone 9780813534435
$75.26The South American nation of Colombia has seen more than forty years of unrest, conflict, and civil war. It is a country in which social violence and warfare are intricately intertwined. Colombia is also notorious for its drug trade, being one of the... -
Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone by Alfred C. Stepan
RRP: $79.80$72.09The last four years have seen a remarkable resurgence of democracy in the Southern Cone of the Americas. Military regimes have been replaced in Argentina (1983), Uruguay (1985), and Brazil (1985). Despite great interest in these new democracies, the role... -
The Pinochet Regime by Carlos Huneeus 9781588264060
RRP: $98.60$81.27This seminal book was inspired by a series of questions: what explains the endurance of Augusto Pinochet's authoritarian regime in Chile, a country with a lengthy democratic tradition? What mechanisms secured the regime's political stability and... -
Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City by Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda 9781496213242
RRP: $62.98$54.582020 Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Book Prize In post-1968 Mexico a group of artists and feminist activists began to question how feminine bodies were visually constructed and politicized across media... -
The Conquest of the Desert: Argentina's Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History by Carolyne R. Larson 9780826362070
RRP: $54.50$44.18For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's "Golden Age" of progress, modernity, and - most contentiously - national whiteness and... -
Don Juan O'Brien: An Irish Adventurer in Nineteenth-Century South America by Tim Fanning 9781782053828
RRP: $73.50$60.52This is the first comprehensive study of John Thomond O'Brien, one of the most significant Irish-born figures in the history of modern South America. Born in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, in the late eighteenth-century, O'Brien emigrated to Buenos Aires... -
Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present by Lessie Jo Frazier
RRP: $56.68$50.63Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures... -
The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America by Andrew Russell
RRP: $83.98$73.63Described as a 'master plant' by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of everyday health, wellbeing and community. In sharp contrast to the condemnation of the tobacco... -
Cruising Coast to Coast Through the Panama Canal 2020-21: A guide on What to Expect by Dr Lew Deitch 9781074017705
RRP: $31.40$27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781074017705Author Dr Lew DeitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856 by Pierre Dessalles
$56.55Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the...