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Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough
RRP: $27.28$18.02Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.Book InformationISBN 9780671244095Author David McculloughFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
RRP: $20.98$14.93Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary... -
Fidel: a Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc 9780380808885
RRP: $29.38$26.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380808885Author Tad SzulcFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476g -
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
RRP: $27.28$19.09Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo,... -
Aztec and Maya: An Illustrated History: The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Central America and Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Zapotec by Charles Phillips 9780754834731
RRP: $42.00$35.05The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Central America & Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Zapotec In a sumptuous new large-format edition, this wide-ranging reference book covers almost 3000 years of history,... -
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
RRP: $31.48$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature (Children/Young Adult) 2014. Short-listed for Delaware Diamonds Award (High School) 2014.Book... -
Writings for a Liberation Psychology by Ignacio Martin-Baro
RRP: $65.00$50.25"In your country," Ignacio Martin-Baro remarked to a North American colleague, "it's publish or perish. In ours, it's publish and perish." In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately... -
Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya by William Carlsen 9780062407405
RRP: $23.08$15.23New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) * THE "MASTERFUL CHRONICLE"* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA--AN "ADVENTURE TALE THAT MAKES INDIANA JONES LOOK TAME"* In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins... -
Costa Rica: The Complete Guide: Ecotourism in Costa Rica by James Kaiser 9781940754352
RRP: $35.68$25.35Discover the best of Costa Rica-beaches, wildlife, rainforests, national parks!Over 130 five-star reviews for previous editionsCosta Rica is an eco-travel paradise! From pristine beaches and jungle waterfalls to high-altitude coffee farms, Costa Rica:... -
Salvador by Joan Didion 9781783785230
RRP: $23.08$15.37El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not only on... -
The Maya: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Restall
RRP: $18.88$13.55The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas - and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the... -
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9780099484332
RRP: $35.68$25.792014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history.Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The human cost... -
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson 9780802144119
$37.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144119Author Jon Lee AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto 9780375725821
RRP: $46.20$33.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725821Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm)... -
Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick
RRP: $23.08$16.32*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's... -
Hunter of Stories by Eduardo Galeano
RRP: $20.98$14.28'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and entertain' Morning StarThe internationally acclaimed last work... -
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
RRP: $52.48$31.82This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two... -
Night of Sorrows: War God Trilogy: Book Three by Graham Hancock
RRP: $23.08$14.34Cortes and his small army of Conquistadors enter Tenochtitlan, the island city of the Aztecs, as guests of the psychotic emperor Moctezuma who plans to trap them there and kill them all. In a stunning coup, Cortes acts first, taking the emperor hostage... -
The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations by Frances F. Berdan
RRP: $37.80$27.22In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan casts fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths and human sacrifice. While often... -
Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe
RRP: $39.88$27.62The Third Edition of this classic account of the inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time - the last great decipherment of an ancient script - revised and brought right up to date with the latest developments. 113... -
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger
RRP: $41.90$33.96Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the... -
Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua by Cymene Howe
RRP: $48.28$41.16Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was... -
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the... -
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War by Eline van Ommen 9780520390768
RRP: $52.50$40.28Nicaragua 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... -
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Oscar Martinez
RRP: $20.98$17.16El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people-men, women, and children-flee these three countries for North America. Oscar Martinez, author... -
William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras by Scott Martelle 9781613737293
RRP: $50.30$37.28In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and... -
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: $44.00$39.63In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist-and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe in 1981 and... -
I, Rigoberta Menchu by Rigoberta Menchu
RRP: $44.08$32.91Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother,... -
The Maya by Michael D Coe
RRP: $52.50$35.24The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies. The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya on the market today. This classic book has been updated by... -
The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas by Robert L. Paquette
$70.92The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean,... -
Cuba's Forgotten Decade: How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution by Emily J. Kirk 9781498568753
RRP: $73.50$68.59The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of "Sovietization" characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet... -
The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War by Danner
RRP: $31.48$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755258Author Mark DannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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 -
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 9780822333685
RRP: $48.28$42.00new 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... -
Liberty or Death: Latin American Conflicts, 1900-70 by Philip Jowett
RRP: $63.00$49.54A highly illustrated study of the wars of Central and South America from 1900 through to 1970, featuring many rare and never-before-seen images. From the Banana Wars of the early 20th century through to the Football War of 1969, South and Central... -
Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal by Marixa Lasso
RRP: $62.90$48.70The Panama Canal's untold history-from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal's American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics.The... -
Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule by Michel Gobat
RRP: $56.68$47.99Michel 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... -
Politics, Economy, and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821 by Jordana Dym 9780870818448
$149.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870818448Author Jordana DymFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 589g -
Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala by Michael J. Cangemi 9780817321789
RRP: $197.40$160.61Documents the history of Catholic activism to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980sBlessed Are the Activists examines US Catholic activists’ influence on US-Guatemalan... -
The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations by Alan McPherson 9780195343038
RRP: $126.00$114.51In 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...