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Teotihuacan - The World Beyond the City by David M. Carballo
RRP: £62.95£51.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024675Author Kenneth G. HirthFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto 9780375725821
RRP: £22.00£15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725821Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm)... -
The Zapatista Reader by Tom Hayden 9781560253358
£18.60The electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year's Day, 1994, has provided inspiration for activists all over the world. A... -
Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands by Hal Langfur
RRP: £27.99£24.14From 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the... -
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson 9780802144119
RRP: £15.99£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144119Author Jon Lee AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by James Woodard
RRP: £24.99£21.18Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as... -
The Black Christ of Esquipulas: Religion and Identity in Guatemala by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez 9780803268432
RRP: £45.00£39.18On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal... -
The Maya by Michael D Coe
RRP: £25.00£16.78The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies. The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya on the market today. This classic book has been updated by... -
Urgent Matters by Sarah Moses 9781782278139
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Yankees are more astute when it comes to matters like these. They say "not guilty". They don't say "innocent". Because as far as innocence goes, no one can make that claim. A train crashes in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, leaving forty-three... -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by David Freidel 9780688112042
£23.01The mystique of the pre-Columbian Maya has prompted much speculation about the nature of this sophisticated people. With the breaking of their elaborate hieroglyphic code, Schele and Freidel, Mayan scholars of note, provide a new look at the Maya... -
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements by Lynn M. Stephen
RRP: £23.99£20.84A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six... -
Nursing Through Shot and Shell: A Great War Nurse's Story by Christine Smyth 9781399023214
RRP: £12.99£10.95This recently discovered memoir gives an intimate glimpse into the Great War service of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Forces Nursing Service Sister, who remained steadfastly and true to her profession as she nursed through shot and shell. Dr Vivien... -
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Oscar Martinez
RRP: £9.99£8.17El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people-men, women, and children-flee these three countries for North America. Oscar Martinez, author... -
Migration in Colonial Spanish America by David J. Robinson 9780521362818
RRP: £120.00£103.07In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century,... -
William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras by Scott Martelle 9781613737293
RRP: £23.95£18.35In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and... -
Ship, The Lady and the Lake by Meriel Larken 9781903071427
RRP: £20.00£14.45Apologies 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 -
Imperium by Jay Gao 9781800172470
RRP: £11.99£8.29Winner of A Somerset Maugham Award 2023. Winner of An Eric Gregory Award 2023. Winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023. By reimagining episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Jay... -
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Ernesto Che Guevara 9780241465127
RRP: £10.99£7.77An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara'Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world'Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life... -
The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 9781586484293
RRP: £17.99£15.42Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence... -
A Concise History of Mexico by Brian R. Hamnett
RRP: £22.99£19.14This concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico's struggle to break out of the colonial past and assert its viability as a sovereign state in a competitive world. In this third edition, Hamnett... -
Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela by Raul Gallegos 9781640122130
RRP: £16.99£15.07Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude-the world's largest reserves-an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its... -
Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer
RRP: £21.99£19.19Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new... -
The Missionaries Norman Lewis 9781906011529
RRP: £12.99£8.60In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Book... -
Subcomandante Marcos: Global Rebel Icon by Nick Henck 9781551647029
RRP: £63.99£51.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551647029Author Nick HenckFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo
RRP: £18.49£15.92Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It... -
The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History Professor Christine Folch 9780691246390
£31.09The untold story of South America’s most interesting beverageBrewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea. In... -
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: £20.95£18.87In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist-and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe in 1981 and... -
Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World by Kris Lane
RRP: £23.00£18.10"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosi as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-The New York Review of Books In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia... -
Land that Lost Its Heroes by Jimmy Burns
RRP: £14.99£11.75'A required book for anyone who wishes to understand the Argentine situation before and after the Falklands War' Graham Greene 'Full of insights about the extraordinary story of Argentina under Galtieri and Alfonsin' Max Hastings __________________ ... -
The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile by Terri Gordon-Zolov
RRP: £39.95£34.49Beginning in October 2019, Chile was convulsed by protests and political upheaval, as what began as civil disobedience transformed into a vast resistance movement. Throughout, one of the most striking aspects of the protests was the murals, graffiti, and... -
The Gaucho Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez 9780873952842
RRP: £20.40£20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873952842Author Jose HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala by Sarah Foss 9781469670331
RRP: £29.95£27.62During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evident in today's hemispheric policies. Development became a key form of intervention as government... -
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality by Jose Carlos Mariategui
RRP: £25.99£22.49"Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the... -
For la Patria: Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America by Brian Loveman
RRP: £42.00£34.77Defending "la patria," or "homeland," is the historical mission claimed by Latin American armed forces. For la Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defense and security. Latin American... -
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera
RRP: £8.99£6.34On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania de Santa Gertrudis - the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six... -
A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 by Walter Rodney
RRP: £28.00£27.39Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well-informed, and perceptive contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century Guyanese society. This... -
The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas by Robert L. Paquette
£35.00The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean,... -
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes by Arturo Escobar
RRP: £27.99£24.54In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization... -
Argentina in the Global Middle East by Lily Pearl Balloffet
RRP: £24.99£21.67Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere's history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine residents was an immigrant-twice the demographic impact that the United... -
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1 by Eduardo Galeano
£10.06Genesis , the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author's words, an attempt to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." It is a fierce,...