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Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic by Isabella Cosse
RRP: $193.20$157.25Since 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: $52.50$40.28Lives 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: $207.90$172.03In 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... -
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War by Eline van Ommen 9780520390768
RRP: $52.50$40.28Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far... -
Warriors and Scribes: Essays in the History and Politics of Latin America by James Dunkerley 9781859842720
RRP: $31.50$27.13Warriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, Cold War perspective and from the trivializations of postmodernism. An investigation of Jorge Castaneda's... -
Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia by Robert A. Karl 9780520293939
RRP: $63.00$60.19Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between... -
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by James Woodard
RRP: $52.48$44.48Originally 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... -
Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands by Hal Langfur
RRP: $62.98$54.58From 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... -
Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism by Rafael Sanchez
$80.35Since 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... -
Urgent Matters by Sarah Moses 9781782278139
RRP: $27.28$24.74The 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 History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Oscar Martinez
RRP: $20.98$13.94El 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... -
Capoeira by Bira Almeida
RRP: $37.78$27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780938190295Author Bira AlmeidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras by Scott Martelle 9781613737293
RRP: $50.30$37.28In 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... -
Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism by Pablo Calvi
RRP: $74.55$61.36Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a... -
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Ernesto Che Guevara 9780241465127
RRP: $23.08$16.32An 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... -
A Concise History of Mexico by Brian R. Hamnett
RRP: $48.28$40.19This 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... -
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes by Arturo Escobar
RRP: $58.78$50.53In 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... -
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Angeles, 1531-1706 by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
RRP: $189.00$166.01Using the city of Puebla de los Angeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the... -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by David Freidel 9780688112042
$45.84The 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... -
Aztec Thought and Culture by Miguel Leon- Portilla 9780806122953
RRP: $54.50$39.29For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the... -
Subcomandante Marcos: Global Rebel Icon by Nick Henck 9781551647029
RRP: $134.38$106.34Apologies 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 -
The Missionaries by Norman Lewis 9781906011529
RRP: $27.28$17.54In "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... -
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: $44.00$39.63In 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... -
Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer
RRP: $50.38$42.86Between 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... -
Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon 9780060505127
RRP: $37.78$29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505127Author John Steele GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo
RRP: $36.73$31.73Mexico 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... -
I, Rigoberta Menchu by Rigoberta Menchu
RRP: $44.08$32.91Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother,... -
Imperium by Jay Gao 9781800172470
RRP: $25.18$17.41Winner 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... -
India and the Shaping of the Indo-Guyanese Imagination by Clem Seecharan 9780948833618
RRP: $16.78$11.95When the first East Indian intellectuals emerged in British Guiana at the end of the nineteenth century, most of their compatriots were still working as indentured or free labourers on the colony's sugar estates. Indians were conscious that they were... -
Land that Lost Its Heroes by Jimmy Burns
RRP: $31.48$24.09'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 __________________ ... -
Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate by Mabel Morana 9780822341697
RRP: $67.20$58.95Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century colonization and decolonization processes in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Colonialism in Latin... -
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes by Orin Starn
RRP: $48.28$43.34On 17 May 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town... -
The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 by Michael J. Gonzales 9780826327802
RRP: $54.50$44.18This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social uprising of the twentieth century. In 1911, land-hungry peasants united with discontented political elites to... -
The Juarez Myth in Mexico by Charles A. Weeks 9780817351946
RRP: $54.50$44.18In this study, Charles Weeks explains the creation and transformation of on the most powerful secular myths in the Western world, that of Benito Juarez Mexico. The liberal president of Mexico became, and continues to be, a national icon.ReviewsIn this... -
On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala by Sarah Foss 9781469670331
RRP: $62.90$50.67During 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... -
The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830 by Brian R. Hamnett
RRP: $65.08$56.22In this new work, Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil by examining the interplay between events in Iberia and in the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal. Most colonists had... -
The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas by Robert L. Paquette
$70.92The 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,... -
Motherland: A Memoir by Paula Ramón 9781542036917
RRP: $18.88$12.87From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramon comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin. In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic... -
Argentina in the Global Middle East by Lily Pearl Balloffet
RRP: $58.78$49.69Argentina 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... -
The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition by Miguel Leon-Portilla 9780807055007
RRP: $46.20$42.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055007Author Miguel Leon-PortillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...