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Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon 9780060505127
RRP: $35.08$26.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505127Author John Steele GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe by Uki Goni
RRP: $29.23$19.11'Powerful and gripping... Goni [is] impressively relentless: leaving no discoverable stone unturned' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's regime drew to a close, many Nazi officials began to... -
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: $19.48$13.86'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native... -
Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: $29.23$21.35NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of... -
Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez 9780806191935
$51.23Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in the Americas receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching revisionary work. Despite initial upheavals caused by the European intrusion, Native people often thrived after contact,... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: $25.33$16.77Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. His poetry celebrates the... -
Planetary Longings by Mary Louise Pratt
RRP: $46.78$40.64In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity,... -
Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History by Tony Perrottet
$54.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735218161Author Tony PerrottetFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Marx And Latin America: Historical Materialism, Volume 57 by Jose M. Arico 9781608464111
RRP: $58.50$38.77In a work centred on Marx's harsh biography of Simon Bolvar, Jose Arico examines why Latin America was apparently excluded from Marx's thought, challenging the allegation that this expressed Eurocentric prejudice. Whilst criticising Marx's misreading of... -
Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and Abolitionisma Debate with Joao Pedro Marques by Seymour Drescher 9781800730052
RRP: $54.50$44.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730052Author Seymour DrescherFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books -
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $44.83$39.02In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with... -
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T J English
RRP: $33.13$30.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061712746Author T J EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados by Richard Ligon
RRP: $33.13$27.55Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean... -
Revolution in the Revolution? by Regis Debray
$26.56Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che's own pamphlets, and... -
The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray 9781904263609
RRP: $11.68$8.01Ever since humans first began to count, people have clocked days, moons and years, tried to make sense of them in terms of each other, and formed calendars to order their lives. In an amazing leap, the ancient Maya managed to synchronize all the visible... -
Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s by Allen Wells 9780300264401
RRP: $97.50$93.31By emphasizing Latin American reformers’ decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region’s political evolution Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a... -
Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction by Ennis B. Edmonds 9780199584529
RRP: $17.53$12.58From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found... -
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible by Arturo Escobar
RRP: $40.93$35.82In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy,... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: $40.95$23.85WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States-from before... -
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 by Walton Look Lai
RRP: $58.50$53.33In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major... -
Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman by Will Grant
RRP: $19.48$13.86'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is 'A... -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: $58.50$49.90An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908-1963) following her... -
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta 9780520344327
RRP: $76.05$59.98How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation-and expanded the meanings of feminist art. In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from... -
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
RRP: $31.18$24.38Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the... -
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
RRP: $19.48$12.50In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued-through the tenure of ten American... -
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Angeles, 1531-1706 by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
RRP: $175.50$154.15Using the city of Puebla de los Angeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the... -
A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017 by Timothy J. Kehoe
RRP: $31.18$28.55A major, new, and comprehensive look at six decades of macroeconomic policies across the region What went wrong with the economic development of Latin America over the past half-century? Along with periods of poor economic performance, the region's... -
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson 9781611856330
RRP: $48.75$34.30For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, America has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been... -
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers Jeremy Black 9781408713488
RRP: $19.48$13.26A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its... -
A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution Jeremy D. Popkin (University of Kentucky, USA) 9781119746331
RRP: $52.55$45.69Learn about the first time in history that people of color overthrew a European colonial regime to establish an independent country Describing the only successful slave revolt in world history, the newly revised Second Edition of A Concise History of... -
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America by Michael Reid
RRP: $31.18$23.67A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has... -
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas by Richard Price
RRP: $54.60$47.85Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a... -
The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself by David Bushnell
RRP: $52.65$41.07Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous--as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers--makes this, the first history of Colombia... -
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger
RRP: $38.90$33.68Bitter 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... -
Congo Diary: Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto Che Guevara
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210727Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past by Julie Lindahl 9781538159613
RRP: $31.18$27.85This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the... -
Silver, Sword and Stone: The Story of Latin America in Three Extraordinary Lives by Marie Arana 9781474600989
RRP: $25.33$17.73The timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation, violence, and religion.Leonor Gonzales, a miner's widow, lives in a tiny community perched... -
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean De Lery
RRP: $52.65$41.07When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil". Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member... -
Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 by Juan Jose Ponce Vazquez
RRP: $60.43$44.56Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes... -
Silver, Sword and Stone: The Story of Latin America in Three Extraordinary Lives by Marie Arana
RRP: $58.50$52.81SILVER, SWORD AND STONE is a vibrant, sweeping history of Latin America, told through three compelling lenses.The first, precious metal, of which silver is an enormous part, is an obsession that burned brightly in pre-Columbian times, consumed Spain in...