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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 9780822333685
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.26new 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... -
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.99Apologies 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 -
Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9781400095186
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $24.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095186Author Matthew ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 502gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Swiss Colony of Uruguay: David Salom n Bratschi, the First Settler of Nueva Helvecia by Marice Ettlin Caro 9780692593189
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Fractured Politics: Peruvian Democracy Past and Present by John Crabtree 9780956754905
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $47.56Latin American opinion surveys consistently point to Peruvian citizens' deep distrust of their elected rulers and democratic institutions. The 2011 presidential and legislative elections in Peru, along with the regional and municipal polls of the... -
Latin America During World War II by Thomas M. Leonard 9780742537408
RRP: $153.51Booksplease Price: $132.81The 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...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $153.51Booksplease Price: $132.81Subtotal:$0.00 -
Latin America During World War II by Thomas M. Leonard 9780742537415
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.27The 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: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina by Silvia R. Tandeciarz 9781611488456
RRP: $145.77Booksplease Price: $126.57Citizens 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...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $145.77Booksplease Price: $126.57Subtotal:$0.00 -
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism: Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina by Brendan Lanctot 9781611485455
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $90.95Beyond 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... -
An Inquiry into Choteo by Jorge Mañach Robato 9788411261227
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $20.74Apologies 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 -
Central America in the Crosshairs of War: On the Road from Vietnam to Iraq Scott Wallace 9781960521019
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.99During the 1980s, the Reagan Administration financed and directed wars against popular movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua that left more than 300,000 dead and countless more wounded. Vowing to block Soviet expansion, the U.S. waged a Vietnam-style... -
Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya by Walter R. T. Witschey 9780759122840
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $118.41Encyclopedia 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...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $118.41Subtotal:$0.00 -
Historical Dictionary of Panama by Thomas M. Leonard 9780810878341
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $123.27This Historical Dictionary of Panama covers Panama's unique history from the time of its Spanish colonization, through its connection to Colombia in the nineteenth century, and its long period of U.S. presence. Throughout these periods, Panama drew the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $123.27Subtotal:$0.00 -
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism: Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina by Brendan Lanctot 9781611487138
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $49.45Beyond 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... -
Copan: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom by E. Wyllys Andrews 9781930618381
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $36.39This volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world. The authors-internationally renowned experts who participated in the long-running Copan Acropolis Archaeological Project-address... -
Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010: The Engine Room of the Constitution by Roberto Gargarella 9780199937967
Booksplease Price: $126.64Latin 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... -
Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961-1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay by Isabel Story 9781498580137
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.25This 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... -
Brazil, the United States, and the Good Neighbor Policy: The Triumph of Persuasion during World War II by Alexandre Busko Valim 9781793613288
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $101.24In 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...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $101.24Subtotal:$0.00 -
Once Upon a Time (Bomb) by Manlio Argueta 9780761837879
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $53.82Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a charming memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women-his mother, aunts,... -
Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Mauricio A. Font 9780739147504
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $139.80Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil advances a distinctive interpretation of the dynamism of the Sao Paulo region since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Large and entrepreneurial coffee landlords opened the frontier to the west of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $139.80Subtotal:$0.00 -
The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations by Alan McPherson 9780190498764
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $32.26In 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... -
Your Passport to Guatemala by Nancy Dickmann 9781496697189
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.31Apologies 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 -
Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson: A Correspondence by Earl Leslie Griggs 9780520346543
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $48.39This 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: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador's Civil War by Joaquin M. Chavez 9780190067670
RRP: $45.78Booksplease Price: $33.93Poets 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... -
The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations by Alan McPherson 9780195343038
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $67.74In 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 by James A. Baer 9781498581097
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $101.24A 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...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $101.24Subtotal:$0.00 -
Your Passport to Guatemala by Nancy Dickmann 9781496695505
RRP: $40.40Booksplease Price: $24.25Apologies 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 -
Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala Under General Efrain Rios Montt, 1982-1983 by Virginia Garrard-Burnett 9780195379648
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $81.67Between 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... -
Guatemala Joanne Mattern 9781641281614
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $7.79Apologies 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 -
El Salvador Joanne Mattern 9781641281492
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $7.79Apologies 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 -
Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Natin-Building by James Dobbins 9780833078605
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833078605Author James DobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint RANDPublisher RAND -
Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9780806153841
Booksplease Price: $29.09Human 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... -
Costa Rica by Kristine Mlis Spanier
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $7.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645273295Author Kristine Mlis SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 249g -
From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico: Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire by David Charles Wright-Carr
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $91.10Apologies 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 -
Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala by Rene Reeves
Booksplease Price: $94.40In 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... -
Theory In Practice of the Nicaraguan Revolution: Mis Lam#23 by Bruce E. Wright
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $15.48Even 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... -
The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Greg Grandin
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.12This 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... -
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Kirsten Weld
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.09In 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... -
African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents by Prof Robert C Schwaller 9780806169330
Booksplease Price: $39.24From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior of the isthmus. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama, a primary source reader, edited by Robert C... -
The History of Central America by Thomas Lee Pearcy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403962560Author Thomas Lee PearcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 217mm...