Central America

The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806164946Author W George LovellFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Apologies 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...

Described as a 'master plant' by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of everyday health, wellbeing and community. In sharp contrast to the condemnation of the tobacco...

This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The...

El Salvador's 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed...

Believing that Maya studies today are ""suffering from imbalance,"" J. Eric S. Thompson here approaches Maya history and religion from the standpoint of ethno-history. Present-day archaeologists often tend to restrict their curiosity to their excavations...

'A Hero's Curse' is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simon Bolivar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chavez. For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the...

In Maya Narrative Arts, authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque...

Apologies 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...

Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast and the process of autonomy that was initiated in 1987 as part of a wider conflict resolution process during the...

Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Rios Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians...

As in Europe, secular nation building in Latin America challenged the traditional authority of the Roman Catholic Church in the early twentieth century. In response, Catholic social and political movements sought to contest state-led secularisation and...

In Miniature Messages, Jack Child analyzes Latin American postage stamps, revealing the messages about history, culture, and politics encoded in their design and disseminated throughout the world. While postage stamps are a sanctioned product of official...

Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores-everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to...

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The present world will end on 22nd December 2012, so prophesized the Maya 5000 years ago in their inscriptions deep within the Central American rainforests. Who were the Maya? Where did they come from and why did they suddenly disappear? Will we suffer...

Latin 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...

Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico is a cultural history of the missionary enterprise in sixteenth-century Mexico, seen primarily through the work of Catholic missionaries and the native populations, principally the Aztecs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473324070Author Keith HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Disjunct BooksPublisher Disjunct BooksWeight(grams) 236g

The possibility of violence beneath a thin veneer of civil society is a fact of daily life for twenty-first-century Guatemalans, from field laborers to the president of the country. Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala explores the causes and...

Winner of the 1991 Chicago Women in Publishing Award In a restaurant in Esteli, Nicaragua, Dianne Walta Hart, a visiting American scholar, and Marta Lopez, member of a Nicaraguan women's organization, began to talk of the Sandinista revolution and of the...

"An admirable contribution to the growing literature on Maya settlement research initiated by Gordon Willey in the Belize Valley in the 1950s."--Shirley B. Mock, University of Texas, San Antonio Over half a century ago, the late Gordon Willey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806111216Author Prof Ralph L RoysFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Columbus arrived on North American shores in 1492, and Cortes had replaced Moctezuma, the Aztec Nahua emperor, as the major figurehead in central Mexico by 1521. Five centuries later, the convergence of "old" and "new" worlds and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860545958Author Juliette Cartwright GerhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467757Author Blake D. PattridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 293Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 580g

In the late nineteenth century, many Central American governments and countries sought to fill low-paying jobs and develop their economies by recruiting black American and West Indian labourers. Frederick Opie offers a revisionist interpretation of these...

Reflections - personal, candid and touching - on Sandinista Nicaragua. Amongst issues discussed are: the position of women, gender relations, the empowering role of liberation theology and the struggle to develop an adequate mental health service.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982682609Author Mark L Van StoneFormat PaperbackImprint Tlacaelel PressPublisher Tlacaelel PressWeight(grams) 544g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674731592Author E Bradford BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 317Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860542742Author Frederick W. LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359441Author Sonia Bennett MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 690Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 785g

This concise history of Nicaragua provides the reader with a history of the ways in which key political and economic factors have contributed to the creation of the modern nation. Notwithstanding Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's disdain for the...

In Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond, Barry S. Levitt answers urgent questions about executive power in "new" democracies. He examines in rich detail the case of Peru, from President Alan Garcia's...

Maryknoll Catholic missionaries from the United States settled in Peru in 1943 believing they could save a "backward" Catholic Church from poverty, a scarcity of clergy, and the threat of communism. Instead, the missionaries found themselves...

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...

From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring "ethnic options," twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last...