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I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
RRP: $46.80$45.69In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects... -
A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present Teresa A. Meade (Union College, New York) 9781119719168
RRP: $75.95$67.47This is a fully accessible text on the political, cultural and social history of Latin America and the Caribbean from the late eighteenth century to the present. Throughout the text the author presents examples from the life history of prominent and... -
Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate by Elizabeth Hill Boone
RRP: $105.30$93.19In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest... -
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution by John Womack
RRP: $31.18$23.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394708539Author John WomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis by Nelly Richard
RRP: $38.98$34.20Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet... -
The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil by Laura de Mello e Souza 9780292702363
RRP: $56.53$48.67Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly... -
Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
RRP: $46.80$44.91"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the... -
After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador by Ralph Sprenkals 9780268103255
RRP: $76.05$67.31El Salvador's 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed... -
Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser
RRP: $46.78$40.64Winner, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in... -
Land without Masters: Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government by Anna Cant
RRP: $87.75$76.40In 1969, Juan Velasco Alvarado's military government began an ambitious land reform program in Peru, transferring holdings from large estates to peasant cooperatives. Fifty years later this reform remains controversial: critics claim it unjustly... -
Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856 by Pierre Dessalles
$52.51Diaries 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... -
Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Alejandro Velasco 9780520283329
RRP: $48.75$38.20Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America's most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising... -
The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History by Emma Perez
RRP: $29.23$26.15"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... -
Rebellion in the Veins: Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-82 by James Dunkerley 9780860917946
RRP: $50.68$46.02"Bolivia is a country with a reputation," writes James Dunkerley. "Not so long ago it was for Che Guevara, for whose death its citizens are on occasions held to be collectively responsible. More recently it has been for cocaine. But in general it is for... -
Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946 by Matthew B. Karush
$54.52In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine... -
The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s by Paulo Drinot 9781108717281
RRP: $52.63$44.46The creation of Lima's red light district in 1928 marked the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation who sought to control the spread of venereal disease by medically policing female prostitutes. Its closure in 1956 was arguably the high... -
Maya History and Religion by J. Eric S. Thompson 9780806122472
RRP: $50.60$45.65Believing that Maya studies today are ""suffering from imbalance,"" J. Eric S. Thompson here approaches Maya history and religion from the standpoint of ethno-history. Present-day archaeologists often tend to restrict their curiosity to their excavations... -
A Hero's Curse: The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela by Kajsa Norman
RRP: $33.13$29.85'A Hero's Curse' is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simon Bolivar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chavez. For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the... -
Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border by Elizabeth Emma Ferry
RRP: $40.93$35.82Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by... -
A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 by Christopher D Dishman 9780806163130
$37.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806163130Author Christopher D DishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma... -
The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village by Frank Salomon 9780822333906
RRP: $46.78$40.64None of the world's "lost writings" have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the... -
Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Nancy E. Van Deusen
RRP: $46.78$40.64In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios-indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire-were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several... -
Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia by Rene Zavaleta Mercado
RRP: $51.68$43.86Bolivia's foremost social and political theorist, Rene Zavaleta Mercado held diplomatic and ministerial posts with the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in the 1950s and '60s, before eventually aligning with the Marxist left, where he developed the... -
The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Carlos Aguirre 9780822363484
RRP: $42.88$37.42Covering more than five hundred years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader captures the multiple viewpoints of the diverse peoples of Peru's capital city. The volume traces Lima's transformation from a pre-Columbian religious center, to the... -
World of the Ancient Incas David Jones 9781844768677
RRP: $19.48$14.64This is the extraordinary history of the hidden civilizations of the first people of the South American Andes, with over 200 photographs and illustrations. This is a fascinating in-depth guide to the mysterious Inca world, providing an extraordinary... -
Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition by Kris E. Lane 9780826323576
$72.58Quito has always been one of the most enigmatic of colonial Spanish American cities. The history of its enormous hinterland, only a fraction of which forms the modern Republic of Ecuador, is even less known. This engaging book takes the watershed year... -
Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 by Lisa Blackmore
$89.54In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this... -
Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America by Hilda Sabato 9780691161440
RRP: $68.25$54.09A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In... -
Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes by Orin Starn 9780822323211
RRP: $46.78$40.64Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one... -
Maya Narrative Arts by Karen Bassie-Sweet 9781607327417
RRP: $62.30$60.27In Maya Narrative Arts, authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque... -
In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History, 1910-1989 by Hector Aguilar Camin
RRP: $44.83$39.02Hector Aguilar Camin and Lorenzo Meyer, two of Mexico's leading intellectuals, set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of contemporary Mexico during the twentieth century. A la sombra de... -
Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes by Nicholas A. Robins
$74.47On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosi, in present-day Bolivia... -
The History of Central America by Thomas Lee Pearcy
RRP: $33.13$24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403962560Author Thomas Lee PearcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 217mm... -
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies: And Related Texts by Bartolome de las Casas
RRP: $31.18$26.05Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome de Las Casas dedicated his Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned... -
Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steve J. Stern 9780822338161
RRP: $42.88$37.42During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of... -
Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 by Eduardo Posada-Carbo 9780197631577
RRP: $138.45$126.83Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 examines the ways in which the ancient concept of "democracy" was re-imagined as relevant to the modern world in Latin America and the Caribbean between the later eighteenth and later... -
Hotel Tropico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980 by Jerry Davila
RRP: $44.83$39.02In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African... -
A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship by Lina Penna Sattamini 9780822347361
RRP: $38.98$34.20During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil's dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was... -
First-time: The Historical Vision of an African American People by Richard Price
RRP: $70.20$67.92A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents a transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their... -
Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico by Ben Vinson 9781107670815
RRP: $48.73$38.77This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestizaje (Latin America's modern ideology of racial...