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I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig 9780226789835
€27.57"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 - as well as its caption,... -
Primary History - Aztecs by Tony D. Triggs
RRP: €13.08€12.82Primary History: Aztecs encourages the study of archaeological evidence, artefacts, written sources and maps to understand how the Aztecs have influenced today's society. Stimulating activities cover everyday life, architecture and buildings,... -
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: €33.31€28.63During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of... -
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the... -
Bolivar and the War of Independence: Memorias del General Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Narracion by Daniel Florencio O'Leary
RRP: €42.84€37.35The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man-Simon Bolivar. Bolivar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army... -
Ship, The Lady and the Lake by Meriel Larken 9781903071427
RRP: €23.80€17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071427Author Larken MerielFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
Hugo Chavez Presents Simon Bolivar: The Bolivarian Revolution by Hugo Chavez 9781844673810
RRP: €19.03€16.31Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simon Bolivar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for his own political program-which... -
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops by Kregg Hetherington
RRP: €29.74€25.26The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was... -
Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to... -
The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan by Pedro Carrasco 9780806141992
RRP: €40.40€33.78The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of... -
Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life by John Lynch 9780300126044
RRP: €17.84€16.70Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles, and great victories became embedded in Spanish... -
The True History of The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal del Diaz Castillo
RRP: €23.79€19.62This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the... -
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson 9781611856330
RRP: €29.75€20.93For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, America has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been... -
Latin American Wars 1900-1941 by Philip Jowett
RRP: €15.46€13.10From the Mexican Revolution to the Zarumilla War, in the first 40 years of the 20th century the nations of Central and South America were frequently disturbed by border clashes, civil wars and revolution. Many of these conflicts became known as 'Banana... -
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus by David Abulafia 9780300158212
RRP: €23.79€21.61A new and fascinating perspective on the earliest phases of European exploration across the Atlantic Ocean The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything... -
Chavez - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Rob Stoneman
RRP: €33.32€26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674749Author Rob StonemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico by Alex Hidalgo
RRP: €30.93€26.70Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars
RRP: €13.08€9.35THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A gripping tale about the human need for freedom ... spellbinding' NPR 'Impressively detailed ... Kars... -
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War" by Diana Taylor
RRP: €29.74€25.26In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor's focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983... -
Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru by Hugh Thomson
RRP: €13.08€8.39Imagine that all the great discoveries of Ancient Egypt had happened in the last few years...and you will have some conception of the great excitement over recent finds in PeruPeru wears its ancient cultures wrapped around in layers, like one of the... -
The Idea of Latin America by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: €34.45€31.26The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe. Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence... -
Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
RRP: €29.75€22.82Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and... -
The Americas by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: €13.08€8.39A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the... -
Flesh and Steel during the Great War: The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare by Goya, Michel
RRP: €29.75€21.44Michel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to have appeared in recent years. It is a major contribution towards a deeper understanding of the impact of the struggle... -
U-Boat 977: The True Story of the U-Boat That Escaped to Argentina by Heinz Schaeffer
RRP: €23.79€16.99When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer s account a revealing picture of the German Navy s training and... -
The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic by Joao Jose Reis
RRP: €35.09€32.78Winner of the Casa de las America Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jose Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. The book tells the story... -
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of EVA Peron by John Barnes 9780802134790
RRP: €15.46€13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134790Author John BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books -
Revolucion Libertadora Volume 2: The 1955 Coup That Overthrew President Peron by Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512203Author Antonio Luis Sapienza FracchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Vortex: A Novel by Jose Eustasio Rivera
RRP: €27.36€25.82Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, Jose Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogota and head... -
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher
RRP: €30.93€26.23Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chavez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chavez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical... -
Building Colonial Cities of God: Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain by Karen Melvin
RRP: €79.73€67.54This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late... -
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: €15.46€13.10The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of... -
The Oxford History of Mexico by William H. Beezley
€51.38The tenth anniversary edition of The Oxford History of Mexico tells the fascinating story of Mexico as it has evolved from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. Available for the first time in paperback, this magnificent volume covers... -
Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia by Anadelia A. Romo
RRP: €47.60€41.322023 Honorable Mention, Brazil Section Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)This book explores visual portrayals of blackness in Brazil to reveal the integral role of visual culture in crafting race and nation across Latin... -
The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970 by Dennis Gilbert 9781442270909
€36.83In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class-the oligarchy-consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who... -
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: €17.84€5.60Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal... -
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Ernesto Che Guevara
RRP: €15.46€9.90An extraordinary new selection of the letters of Che Guevara, from throughout his life, many released for the very first timeChe Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are... -
Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic by Isabella Cosse
RRP: €109.48€89.11Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character-a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine... -
Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey by Wendy A. Vogt 9780520298552
RRP: €29.75€22.82Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants... -
Images of Power: Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America by Jens Andermann 9781571815330
RRP: €117.81€97.48In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the...