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The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $58.78$50.53During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of... -
Bolivar and the War of Independence: Memorias del General Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Narracion by Daniel Florencio O'Leary
RRP: $75.60$65.92The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man-Simon Bolivar. Bolivar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army... -
Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and Abolitionisma Debate with Joao Pedro Marques by Seymour Drescher 9781800730052
RRP: $58.70$47.42Apologies 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 -
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson 9781611856330
RRP: $52.50$36.94For 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... -
Latin American Wars 1900-1941 by Philip Jowett
RRP: $27.28$23.12From the Mexican Revolution to the Zarumilla War, in the first 40 years of the 20th century the nations of Central and South America were frequently disturbed by border clashes, civil wars and revolution. Many of these conflicts became known as 'Banana... -
Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico by Alex Hidalgo
RRP: $54.58$47.12Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern... -
The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic by Joao Jose Reis
RRP: $61.93$57.86Winner of the Casa de las America Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jose Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. The book tells the story... -
The Americas by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: $23.08$15.54A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the... -
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher
RRP: $54.58$46.28Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chavez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chavez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical... -
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $27.28$23.12The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of... -
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $31.48$9.89Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal... -
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Ernesto Che Guevara
RRP: $27.28$17.47An extraordinary new selection of the letters of Che Guevara, from throughout his life, many released for the very first timeChe Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are... -
Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey by Wendy A. Vogt 9780520298552
RRP: $52.50$40.28Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants... -
Images of Power: Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America by Jens Andermann 9781571815330
RRP: $207.90$172.03In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the... -
Warriors and Scribes: Essays in the History and Politics of Latin America by James Dunkerley 9781859842720
RRP: $31.50$27.13Warriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, Cold War perspective and from the trivializations of postmodernism. An investigation of Jorge Castaneda's... -
The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela by Fernando Coronil 9780226116020
RRP: $63.00$62.27In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Gomez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter, establishing South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. Endowed with the power of state oil wealth, successive... -
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by James Woodard
RRP: $52.48$44.48Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as... -
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... -
Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism by Pablo Calvi
RRP: $74.55$61.36Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a... -
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Ernesto Che Guevara 9780241465127
RRP: $23.08$16.32An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara'Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world'Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life... -
A Concise History of Mexico by Brian R. Hamnett
RRP: $48.28$40.19This concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico's struggle to break out of the colonial past and assert its viability as a sovereign state in a competitive world. In this third edition, Hamnett... -
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes by Arturo Escobar
RRP: $58.78$50.53In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization... -
Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Angeles, 1531-1706 by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
RRP: $189.00$166.01Using 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... -
Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon 9780060505127
RRP: $37.78$29.21Apologies 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 End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830 by Brian R. Hamnett
RRP: $65.08$56.22In this new work, Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil by examining the interplay between events in Iberia and in the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal. Most colonists had... -
Argentina in the Global Middle East by Lily Pearl Balloffet
RRP: $58.78$49.69Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere's history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine residents was an immigrant-twice the demographic impact that the United... -
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1 by Eduardo Galeano
$26.50Genesis , the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author's words, an attempt to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." It is a fierce,... -
A History of the Cuban Revolution by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: $48.20$42.29A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. * Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add... -
A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 by Walter Rodney
RRP: $58.80$57.52Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well-informed, and perceptive contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century Guyanese society. This... -
US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America During the Sixties: Time for Persuasion by Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez 9781032155685
RRP: $77.68$69.15This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban Revolution. The implicit mandate was "No more Cubas" so... -
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina by Federico Finchelstein 9780190611767
RRP: $66.13$60.71Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal... -
The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers: The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World by Thomas Rath
RRP: $62.98$54.47Between 1947 and 1954, the Mexican and US governments waged a massive campaign against a devastating livestock plague, aftosa or foot-and-mouth disease. Absorbing over half of US economic aid to Latin America and involving thousands of veterinarians and... -
Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 by Paula Park
RRP: $85.05$69.68As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States. Its links to Latin/o America are longstanding and complex. Intercolonial Intimacies interrogates the legacy of the Spanish Empire and the cultural hegemony of the... -
Dictatorship in South America by Jerry Davila 9781405190558
RRP: $41.90$37.11Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule. Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts... -
Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763 by Philip P. Boucher
RRP: $55.65$47.92Philip Boucher analyzes the images-and the realities-of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on... -
Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans by Jorge G. Castañeda 9780375703942
RRP: $33.58$30.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703942Author Jorge G. CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory by Lorraine Bayard de Volo
RRP: $48.28$41.08Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an... -
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala by Julie Gibbings
RRP: $77.68$48.83Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and... -
Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada by Larissa Brewer-Garcia
RRP: $65.08$47.99In seventeenth-century Spanish America, black linguistic interpreters and spiritual intermediaries played key roles in the production of writings about black men and women. Focusing on the African diaspora in Peru and the southern continental Caribbean,... -
Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas by Florencia E. Mallon
RRP: $50.38$42.86Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and...