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Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War by Eline van Ommen 9780520390768
RRP: €29.75€23.31Nicaragua 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... -
Latin America During World War II by Thomas M. Leonard 9780742537415
RRP: €49.98€43.95The 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: €134.47€117.83Citizens 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... -
An Inquiry into Choteo by Jorge Mañach Robato 9788411261227
RRP: €21.42€18.99Apologies 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 by Walter R. T. Witschey 9780759122840
RRP: €124.95€110.35Encyclopedia 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: Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina by Brendan Lanctot 9781611487138
RRP: €52.36€45.98Beyond 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 American Constitutionalism,1810-2010: The Engine Room of the Constitution by Roberto Gargarella 9780199937967
€118.81Latin 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: €41.65€36.83This 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: €107.10€94.26In 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... -
The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations by Alan McPherson 9780190498764
RRP: €42.83€29.64In 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: €10.70€6.82Apologies 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: €49.98€44.99This 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: €42.23€31.30Poets 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: €89.25€62.49In 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: €107.10€94.26A 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... -
Your Passport to Guatemala by Nancy Dickmann 9781496695505
RRP: €37.27€20.63Apologies 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: €107.10€75.34Between 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: €10.70€7.68Apologies 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: €10.70€7.68Apologies 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 -
Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9780806153841
€26.62Human 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... -
Living Ruins: Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes by Philippe Erikson
RRP: €70.21€61.23Apologies 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 -
From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico: Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire by David Charles Wright-Carr
RRP: €84.49€73.42Apologies 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
€81.10In 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... -
The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem by Kristin A. Wintersteen
RRP: €29.75€23.31Off 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... -
New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean by Rosanne Marion Adderley
RRP: €23.79€20.87In 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... -
Theory In Practice of the Nicaraguan Revolution: Mis Lam#23 by Bruce E. Wright
RRP: €30.93€14.17Even 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: €28.55€25.99This 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: €28.55€24.80In 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... -
Letters from Mexico by Hernan Cortes 9781607964919
RRP: €16.65€11.08Apologies 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)... -
Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century by Kaysha Corinealdi
RRP: €24.98€21.86In 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... -
Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule by Michel Gobat
RRP: €28.55€24.80Michel 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... -
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala by Rachel Nolan 9780674270350
RRP: €35.64€28.16The 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... -
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin
RRP: €23.80€23.09After 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... -
Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador by Jocelyn Viterna 9780199843657
RRP: €45.21€27.75Waging 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... -
Strike Fear in the Land Volume 279: Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520-1541 by W. George Lovell 9780806190044
€22.75The 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... -
War in Nicaragua by William Walker 9781628450446
RRP: €20.22€18.66Apologies 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 *... -
Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 by Jim Handy 9780807844380
RRP: €55.87€52.04Although 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... -
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: €20.22€11.77Apologies 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 -
A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura by Eileen Markey
RRP: €26.18€20.65On 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... -
Power in the Isthmus: Political History of Modern Central America by James Dunkerley 9780860919124
RRP: €46.40€43.60In 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...