Central America

Nicaragua 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...

The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime. Each country responded to World War II according to its own national interests, which often...

Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state repression...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788411261227Author Jorge Mañach RobatoFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Linkgua EdicionesPublisher Linkgua EdicionesWeight(grams) 327g

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya offers an A-to-Z overview of the ancient Maya culture from its inception around 3000 BC to the Spanish Conquest after AD 1600. Over two hundred entries written by more than sixty researchers explore subjects ranging from...

Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two...

Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, but this legal history has only recently begun to be subjected to scholarly inquiry. As Roberto Gargarella contends, contemporary constitutional and political theory has a great deal to...

This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting...

In The Triumph of Persusasion: Brazil, United States, and the Good Neighbor Policy during World War II, Alexandre Busko Valim studies the use of cinema in Brazil as an instrument of political persuasion by the United States during the period of the...

In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496697189Author Nancy DickmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 136g

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and...

In his 1933 inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated: "In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor-the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects...

A Social History of Cuba's Protestants: God and the Nation presents a religious and social history of Cuba, focusing on the Presbyterian and other Protestant churches, to show the continuity of ties between US and Cuban churches before and after the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496695505Author Nancy DickmannFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

Between 1982 and 1983, in the name of anti-communism the military government of Guatemala prosecuted a scorched-earth campaign of terror against largely Mayan rural communities. Under the leadership of General Efrain Rios Montt, tens of thousands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641281614Author Joanne MatternFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 191mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641281492Author Joanne MatternFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 196mm * 8mm

Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as "a force of nature on the page and off." That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646422852Author Philippe EriksonFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423156Author David Charles Wright-CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

In the late 1830s an uprising of mestizos and Maya destroyed Guatemala's Liberal government for imposing reforms aimed at expanding the state, assimilating indigenous peoples, and encouraging commercial agriculture. Liberal partisans were unable to...

Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean's depths, creating one of the world's most productive marine ecosystems: the Humboldt Current. Its teeming populations of fish became a key ingredient in...

In 1807 the British government outlawed the slave trade, and began to interdict slave ships en route to the Americas. Through decades of treaties with other slave trading nations and various British schemes for the use of non-slave labor, tens of...

Even in the period following the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990, the revolution of 1979 continues to have a profound effect on the political economy of Nicaragua. Wright's study, which is based on interviews...

This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of...

In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607964919Author Hernan CortesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including...

Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid-nineteenth century through the U.S...

The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and...

Waging war has historically been an almost exclusively male endeavor. Yet, over the past several decades women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers. Why do women become guerrilla insurgents? What experiences do they have in...

The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628450446Author William WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Although most discussions of the Guatemalan ""revolution"" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya...

Apologies 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

On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women- three of them Catholic nuns- were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran...

In this book, the most comprehensive analysis of Central America ever to be published, James Dunkerley provides a detailed account of the history of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica and a series of authoritative studies of their...