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A History of Indigenous Latin America: Aymara to Zapatistas by Rene Harder Horst
RRP: $75.58$67.39A History of Indigenous Latin America is a comprehensive introduction to the people who first settled in Latin America, from before the arrival of the Europeans to the present. Indigenous history provides a singular perspective to political, social and... -
Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile by Marian E. Schlotterbeck 9780520298064
RRP: $63.00$48.91For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende's attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change... -
New World of Gain: Europeans, Guarani, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy by Brian P. Owensby
RRP: $58.78$50.69In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guarani people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in the sixteenth... -
Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Marshall C. Eakin
RRP: $56.68$47.88This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mesticagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mesticagem moved from a conversation... -
A History of Organized Labor in Bolivia by Robert J. Alexander 9780275977443
$200.38Bolivia was the center stage for one of the most important Latin American social revolutions of the twentieth century, one that occurred amid a sea of tremendous political instability. The expansion of organized labor that occurred during the 1920s was... -
Violence and the Caste War of Yucatan by Wolfgang Gabbert
RRP: $77.68$47.99Violence and The Caste War of Yucatan analyzes the extent and forms of violence employed during one of the most significant indigenous rural revolts in nineteenth-century Latin America: the Caste War of Yucatan in the tropical southeast of Mexico... -
Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya by Adrian Recinos 9780806122663
RRP: $39.80$27.43This is the first complete version in English of the ""Book of the People"" of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient Maya, whose remarkable civilization in pre-Columbian... -
The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader by Ana Del Sarto 9780822333401
$90.32The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural studies. Written over the past several decades, these essays provide an assessment of Latin American... -
Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988<BR> by Steve J. Stern
$70.29Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a... -
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico by A. S. Dillingham
RRP: $50.38$43.76Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham... -
The Caribbean People Book 3 by Lennox Honychurch 9780748797431
RRP: $35.68$33.85The Caribbean People has been the best JS History course in and for the Caribbean for some time, as well as being an excellent read for the interested layman. This new edition takes account of the developments since 1995, such as for example the...