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Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925–2005 by Paul D. Almeida 9780816649327
RRP: €26.17€22.84One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador during critical eras in the country’s history. Providing a compelling analysis of the massive... -
Guatemala: Conditions, Issues & U.S. Relations by Jerrod G. Braunstein 9781628086539
RRP: €190.39€125.38Since the 1980s, Guatemala, the most populous country in Central America with a population just over 14 million, has continued its transition from a centuries-long tradition of mostly autocratic rule toward representative government. A democratic... -
Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala by J.T. Way 9780520291850
RRP: €95.20€73.65In Agrotropolis, historian J. T. Way traces the developments of Guatemalan urbanization and youth culture since 1983. In case studies that bring together political economy, popular music, and everyday life, Way explores the rise of urban space in towns... -
Essays in Population History, Volume One: Mexico and the Caribbean by Sherburne F. Cook 9780520369177
RRP: €95.20€74.13This 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... -
The Long War: Dictatorship and Revolution in El Salvador by James Dunkerley 9780860918318
€27.94The Long War is a serious, radical critique of the political economy and recent history of El Salvador, set in the context of the troubled history of the entire Central American region and detailing in full the extent of US intervention and its... -
Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond by Barry S. Levitt 9780268206703
RRP: €122.57€106.08In 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 Mission in Peru, 1943-1989: Transnational Faith and Transformations by Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens 9780268206567
RRP: €122.57€106.08Maryknoll 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... -
Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century by Kaysha Corinealdi 9781478015895
RRP: €98.77€85.81In 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... -
Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930 by Anne Hayes 9780415979375
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that... -
State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years by Marcia Esparza 9780415664578
RRP: €51.16€44.73This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States' hegemonic position on the continent. Using case studies based on the regimes of Argentina, Chile,... -
State and Business Groups in Mexico: The Role of Informal Institutions in the Process of Industrialization, 1936-1984 by Arnulfo Valdivia-Machuca 9780415805704
RRP: €40.45€35.70This book analyzes the history and structure of the intricate system of informal negotiation and secret dealings between the Mexican government and big businessmen in the process of Mexican industrialization between 1936 and 1984. In order to do this,... -
The Quiet Revolutionaries: Seeking Justice in Guatemala by Frank M. Afflitto 9780292716773
RRP: €23.79€20.87The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the country to escape the violence. Yet, at the same moment, a popular... -
Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba by Julie Marie Bunck 9780271010878
RRP: €40.40€35.65Beginning with an overview of the Castro regime's program to transform Cuban culture as guided by the tenets of Marxist-Leninist ideology, Julie Bunck first outlines in a broad way the four phases through which the regime's strategy evolved, from 1959 to... -
Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929-1983: Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929-1983 by Heather Vrana 9781474403696
RRP: €36.89€34.14Few people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and... -
Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Natin-Building by James Dobbins 9780833078605
RRP: €28.55€23.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833078605Author James DobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint RANDPublisher RAND -
Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone by Michael E. Donoghue 9780822356660
RRP: €105.91€92.37The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E... -
Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America by Rex Koontz 9781931745802
RRP: €31.54€29.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931745802Author Rex KoontzFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA -
Silenced Communities: Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town by Marcia Esparza 9781785336874
RRP: €117.81€95.00Although the Guatemalan Civil War ended more than two decades ago, its bloody legacy continues to resonate even today. In Silenced Communities, author Marcia Esparza offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in... -
Economic Nationalism And Globalization: Lessons From Latin America And Central Europe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 48 by Henryk Szlajifer 9781608463442
RRP: €41.65€27.89Henryk Szlajfer offers, against the background of developments in Latin America (mainly Brazil) and Central Europe (mainly Poland) in times of first globalisation from late 19th century until late 1930s, a reinterpretation of economic nationalism both as... -
The Singer's Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panama by Ezer Vierba 9780226342450
RRP: €30.94€29.57Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved critical... -
Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala by Sarah N. Saffa 9780367464424
RRP: €160.65€139.56Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala examines social relations in colonial Guatemala through the lens of incest. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of incest trials from the Spanish secular courts, this study shows... -
The Singer's Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panama by Ezer Vierba 9780226342313
RRP: €109.48€104.55Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved critical... -
Problems and Alternatives in the Modern Americas by Pablo A. Baisotti 9780367492618
RRP: €47.59€41.72This volume explores several notable themes related to political processes in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent from the beginning of the 20th century to the... -
British Honduras: Past and Present by Stephen L. Caiger 9781032418810
€111.38British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period. It examines the first occupation by British adventurers, consolidation by... -
Regional Voices in the Geo-Politics of Mexico and Central America, 1959-2019 by Monica Toussaint 9781032398983
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book is a collective work published as part of a larger project entitled "Mexico-Guatemala cross-border region; regional dimensions and bases for integrated development," the purpose of which is to introduce a series of issues relative to... -
Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis by Edgar Garcia 9780226818603
RRP: €90.44€86.70Nine short essays exploring the K'iche' Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of... -
Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War by Molly Todd 9780299250041
RRP: €35.64€22.30During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out dissidence and insurgency through an aggressive campaign of crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and gruesome... -
Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba by Karen Kampwirth 9780271022512
RRP: €38.02€34.05The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new... -
Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806: Texts and Contexts by Nora E. Jaffary 9781624667503
RRP: €27.36€22.30"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin American history more broadly. Within these pages are captivating stories of enslaved African and... -
Raiders and Natives: Cross-Cultural Relations in the Age of Buccaneers by Arne Bialuschewski 9780820361826
€27.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820361826Author Arne BialuschewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic by Kevin Coleman 9781477308554
RRP: €26.17€22.84In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company's power that it challenged the... -
Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala by Kevin Lewis O'Neill
RRP: €24.98€21.86Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America's longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the... -
The Potters' Perspectives: A Vibrant Chronological Narrative of Ceramic Manufacturing Practices in the Valley of Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua(cal 300 Ce - Present) by Natalia R Donner
€82.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283513Author Natalia R DonnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University PressWeight(grams) 210g -
Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras by Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda
RRP: €33.31€29.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477322192Author Suyapa G. Portillo VilledaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas Press -
When the AK-47s Fall Silent: Revolutionaries, Guerrillas, and the Dangers of Peace by Timothy C. Brown
RRP: €23.74€23.48The majority of Latin American revolutionaries and guerrillas have now laid down their weapons and opted to participate in that region's democratic processes. What brought about this transformation? When the AK-47s Fall Silent brings together for the... -
Dynamics and Conflicts in a Cross-Border Region: Mexico, Guatemala and Belize by Mónica Toussaint
RRP: €148.75€128.35This volume explores several issues pertinent to the history of the cross-border region between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize from new explanatory approaches in order to reflect on a history and a reality that are shared by three neighbouring societies,... -
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution by Leigh Binford
RRP: €147.56€127.38From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN during El Salvador’s revolutionary war (1980-92). In the process... -
Park, Tenement, Slaughterhouse: Elite Imaginaries of Buenos Aires, 1852-1880 Antonio Carbone 9783593515021
RRP: €39.27€38.14An analysis of what the history of epidemic diseases can reveal about urban planning. In the 1860s and 1870s, Buenos Aires was hit by a series of dramatic cholera and yellow fever epidemics that decimated its population and inspired extensive debates on... -
Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala by Sarah N. Saffa
RRP: €47.59€41.72Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala examines social relations in colonial Guatemala through the lens of incest. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of incest trials from the Spanish secular courts, this study shows... -
The Nixon Administration and Cuba: Continuity and Rupture by Hakan Karlsson
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book presents a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy that was adopted toward Cuba by the Richard M. Nixon administration between January 20, 1969, and August 8, 1974. Based on governmental, as well as other, sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, this...