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Violent Democracies in Latin America by Enrique Desmond Arias 9780822346388
RRP: $44.83$39.02Despite 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... -
Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita by Javier Auyero
RRP: $42.88$37.42"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... -
A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War by Gilbert M. Joseph 9780822347378
RRP: $48.73$43.04Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the... -
The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo by David Carrasco
$63.71The 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... -
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: $44.83$29.39Apologies 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: $58.48$51.36As 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... -
Strike Fear in the Land: Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520-1541 by W George Lovell 9780806164946
RRP: $56.45$55.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806164946Author W George LovellFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press -
Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755 by Christoph Rosenmüller
RRP: $72.13$45.34Corruption is one of the most prominent issues in Latin American news cycles, with charges deciding the recent elections in Mexico, Brazil, and Guatemala. Despite the urgency of the matter, few recent historical studies on the topic exist, especially on... -
Let's Look at Brazil by Joy Frisch-Schmoll 9781977105592
RRP: $19.48$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977105592Author Joy Frisch-SchmollFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press -
Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico by Maria Elena Martinez
RRP: $54.58$47.85Maria 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... -
Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone by Alfred C. Stepan
RRP: $78.00$61.48The 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... -
Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750 Kris E Lane 9780765638427
RRP: $85.78$74.96Between 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... -
Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9781400095186
RRP: $46.80$34.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095186Author Matthew ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 502gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music by Matthew B. Karush
RRP: $42.88$37.42In 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... -
Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City by Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda 9781496213242
RRP: $54.58$47.072020 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 Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America Andrew Russell 9781350007390
RRP: $77.98$68.37Described 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... -
Slaves of the White God by Colin a Palmer 9780674182363
RRP: $107.15$106.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674182363Author Colin a PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 526g -
El Laberinto De La Soledad by Octavio Paz by Anthony Stanton 9780719048746
RRP: $21.43$15.41If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Pazs famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition includes the complete text in Spanish (with the author's final revisions), and... -
Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity by Joel D. Wolfe 9780195174564
RRP: $61.41$40.83Autos and Progress studies the automobile as both a tool and a cultural symbol of Brazil's status as a modern "developed" nation. As such it addresses debates on state-making, the role of multi-national corporations in the region, middle-class... -
Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890–1945 by Rafael Cardoso
RRP: $87.73$74.84Modernity 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... -
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru: Volume 41 by José R. Jouve Martín 9780773543416
$100.17In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, Jose Jouve Martin explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a... -
Generos de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference by Robert C. Schwaller 9780806167145
$45.65On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan's indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes 'to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the... -
Lost Paititi and the Non-Human Remains of Nazca by Thierry Jamin 9781948803526
RRP: $46.80$28.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803526Author Thierry JaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices by John Charles Chasteen 9780393283068
RRP: $38.98$35.45A thematic anthology of primary sources for Latin American social and cultural history, the Second Edition reader complements the table of contents of Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition, and draws on newspapers, novels, magazines, and journals-many... -
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History by Elizabeth Salas
RRP: $31.18$27.77Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women warriors-heroines, camp followers, Amazons, coronelas, soldadas, soldaderas, and Adelitas-indicate their... -
The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia by Alfredo Molano 9781931859172
RRP: $33.13$22.76Here in their own words are the stories of the desterrados, or dispossessed' - the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part through US aid to the Colombian government. These gripping stories show the... -
Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present by Lessie Jo Frazier
RRP: $46.78$40.64Salt 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... -
Images at War: Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019) by Serge Gruzinski 9780822326434
RRP: $42.88$37.42"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... -
Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan 9780520213685
RRP: $52.65$47.03In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in... -
The Impasse of the Latin American Left by Franck Gaudichaud
RRP: $38.98$34.20In The Impasse of the Latin American Left, Franck Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, and Jeffery R. Webber explore the region's Pink Tide as a political, economic, and cultural phenomenon. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Latin American politics... -
In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War by Gilbert M. Joseph
RRP: $48.73$43.04Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have... -
Ten Notable Women of Modern Latin America by James D. Henderson 9781538153031
RRP: $48.75$42.49Spanning from independence to the present, this book introduces readers to the history of modern Latin America through the experiences of ten notable women. Each biographical chapter includes an overview of the era, providing a fresh perspective on Latin... -
The History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
RRP: $50.68$43.86The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the capital... -
Intervention!: The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917 by John S. D. Eisenhower 9780393313185
RRP: $45.83$37.28In May 1916, six American soldiers led by Lieutenant George S. Patton, Jr., surrounded a building near Rubio, Chihuahua. When the occupants burst out of the door, guns blazing, Patton and his men cut them down. A month later seventy American troopers... -
Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol by Jennifer Eaglin
$76.52As the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. However, one... -
The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert J. Sharer
$91.36This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The... -
Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism by Rafael Sanchez
$71.80Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America's republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation's life unfolds. This book apprehends... -
Buenos Aires: A Cultural Guide by Nick Caistor
RRP: $33.15$20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566308Author Nick CaistorFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 132mm * 201mm... -
Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life by Fernando Santos-Granero
RRP: $46.78$40.64Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, Vital Enemies offers a fascinating new approach to the study of slavery based on the notion of "political economy... -
The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Stephanie Jo Smith 9781469635682
RRP: $64.25$60.59Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government...