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Motherland: A Memoir by Paula Ramón 9781542036917
RRP: €10.70€7.29From 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: €33.31€28.16Argentina 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: €26.18€24.35Apologies 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 *... -
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1 by Eduardo Galeano
€15.02Genesis , 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,... -
A History of the Cuban Revolution by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: €27.31€23.97A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. * Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add... -
The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro by Jeffrey Needell 9781503609020
€82.12For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color. Abolition was only achieved in 1888, in an unprecedented, turbulent political process. How was the Abolitionist movement (1879-1888) able to bring an end to a... -
Conversations with Allende: Socialism in Chile by Régis Debray 9781804293331
RRP: €15.46€13.46The election in Chile of the Marxist leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, to the presidency in October 1970 inaugurated a political situation unique in Latin America and of world-wide significance. Allende's Popular Unity coalition embraced... -
A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 by Walter Rodney
RRP: €33.32€32.59Completed 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 First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas Up to 1615 by Felipe Guaman Poma De Ayala
RRP: €42.84€36.88One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture,... -
Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology by Christopher Heaney 9780197542552
RRP: €27.36€23.75When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic... -
Now We Are in Power: The Politics of Passive Revolution, Twenty-first Century Bolivia by Angus McNelly
RRP: €63.07€51.28During the first decade of the century, Evo Morales and other leftists took control of governments across Latin America. In the case of Bolivia, Morales was that country's first Indigenous president and was elected following five years of popular... -
US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America During the Sixties: Time for Persuasion by Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez 9781032155685
RRP: €44.02€39.19This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban Revolution. The implicit mandate was "No more Cubas" so... -
Cuba's Forgotten Decade: How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution by Emily J. Kirk 9781498568753
RRP: €41.65€38.87The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of "Sovietization" characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet... -
Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic by Isabella Cosse 9781478006381
RRP: €28.55€24.29Since 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... -
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina by Federico Finchelstein 9780190611767
RRP: €37.47€34.40Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal... -
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes by Orin Starn
RRP: €27.36€23.48On 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... -
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality by Jose Carlos Mariategui
RRP: €33.31€28.16"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... -
The Inca Empire by Sandra Newman 9780531241097
RRP: €8.27€5.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780531241097Author Sandra NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint C. Press/F. Watts TradePublisher C. Press/F. Watts TradeWeight(grams)... -
Rethinking the Inka: Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes by Frances M. Hayashida
RRP: €69.02€59.122023 Book Award, Society for American Archaeology A dramatic reappraisal of the Inka Empire through the lens of Qullasuyu. The Inka conquered an immense area extending across five modern nations, yet most English-language publications on the Inka focus... -
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations by Merilee Grindle 9780674278332
RRP: €33.26€24.26"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and an original thinker-yet today she's completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep... -
Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 by Paula Park
RRP: €48.20€39.48As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States. Its links to Latin/o America are longstanding and complex. Intercolonial Intimacies interrogates the legacy of the Spanish Empire and the cultural hegemony of the... -
The Age of Dissent: Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780-1833 by Martín Bowen
RRP: €35.64€28.71The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life. While contestation and seditious ideas had always been present in the region, never... -
The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War by Danner
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755258Author Mark DannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Dictatorship in South America by Jerry Davila 9781405190558
RRP: €23.74€21.03Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule. Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts... -
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas by Professor Amy C. Offner
RRP: €29.75€22.82The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new... -
Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia by Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier
RRP: €28.55€24.29In this audacious book, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources,... -
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055410Author Aviva ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 9780822333685
RRP: €27.36€23.80new in paperbackSilence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of... -
Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle by Brackette F. Williams 9780822311195
RRP: €30.93€26.23Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own... -
Liberty or Death: Latin American Conflicts, 1900-70 by Philip Jowett
RRP: €35.70€28.07A highly illustrated study of the wars of Central and South America from 1900 through to 1970, featuring many rare and never-before-seen images. From the Banana Wars of the early 20th century through to the Football War of 1969, South and Central... -
Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans by Jorge G. Castañeda 9780375703942
RRP: €19.03€17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703942Author Jorge G. CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Colombia: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Richard D. Mahoney
RRP: €13.08€9.25Even to experts, Colombia is one of the most confusing countries in the Americas. Its democratic tradition is among the richest and most long-standing in the hemisphere, with only eleven years of military rule during its 200 some years of independence... -
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory by Lorraine Bayard de Volo
RRP: €27.36€23.28Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an... -
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala by Julie Gibbings
RRP: €44.02€27.67Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and... -
The Incas: Lords of the Four Quarters by Craig Morris
RRP: €17.79€12.11The Incas built one of the largest empires of the ancient world. The sheer scale makes their achievement truly remarkable. At its zenith it extended northwards from the Inca capital Cusco along the Andes to embrace parts of modern Peru and Ecuador, and... -
Daisy's Summer Mission by Hannah Pearl 9781912550531
RRP: €10.70€8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912550531Author Hannah PearlFormat PaperbackImprint Ruby FictionPublisher Choc Lit Publishing -
Voices from the Desert: The Lost Wisdom of the Skelligs by Hugh MacMaho 9781782183808
RRP: €15.46€13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782183808Author Hugh MacMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Columba BooksPublisher Columba Books -
Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil by Robert Conrad
RRP: €41.59€36.90This is a collection of documents covering all aspects of slavery in Brazil, from its beginnings in Portugal and Africa in the 15th century to its abolition in 1888.About the AuthorRobert E. Conrad is the author of The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery,... -
Operacion Masacre by Rodolfo Walsh
€19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417007621Author Rodolfo WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Publisher Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Weight(grams)... -
Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada by Larissa Brewer-Garcia
RRP: €36.88€27.19In seventeenth-century Spanish America, black linguistic interpreters and spiritual intermediaries played key roles in the production of writings about black men and women. Focusing on the African diaspora in Peru and the southern continental Caribbean,...