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Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America by Anne-Emanuelle Birn 9781478008682
RRP: £103.00£82.73Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches... -
Mexico's Unscripted Revolutions: Political and Social Change since 1958 by Stephen E. Lewis 9781444337600
RRP: £23.99£20.99Explore the forces and movements shaping contemporary Mexican politics and society In Mexico’s Unscripted Revolutions: Political and Social Change Since 1958, distinguished historian Stephen Lewis offers a well-argued—and provocative—presentation of... -
Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America by Roberta Villalon 9781442267244
RRP: £85.00£78.10As new social actors have emerged in Latin America, the process of dealing with the legacy of still-unresolved human rights abuses has been significantly reinvigorated. This powerful text provides the first systematic analysis of the second wave of... -
Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars? by Mark A. Burkholder 9781405196413
£21.03Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Covers three centuries of... -
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies: And Related Texts by Bartolome de las Casas 9780872206267
RRP: £39.99£32.67Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome de Las Casas dedicated his Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned... -
Strange Pilgrimages: Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1800D1990s by Ingrid E. Fey 9780842026949
RRP: £38.00£31.20This fascinating collection of essays and articles shows how Latin Americans travels and residency abroad helped them re-examine their own origins and perceptions of their homeland. Latin Americans traveled both purposefully and frequently in the... -
Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History by Jane M. Rausch 9780842024785
RRP: £40.00£35.22In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' Weber and Rausch... -
Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador by Allen Gerlach 9780842051088
£49.89"It is indispensable that Ecuador has peace, but to have peace you need freedom and to have freedom you need justice. And the Indian population needs justice."-President Gustavo Noboa, January 23, 2000 For five centuries, the Indians had very little... -
Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico by William H. Beezley 9780842024174
£48.34This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the... -
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo 9780822370949
RRP: £97.00£77.62In 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... -
Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America by Sonia E. Alvarez 9780822363071
RRP: £103.00£82.73The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of... -
Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945 by Ricardo Donato Salvatore 9780822360810
RRP: £97.00£77.62In Disciplinary Conquest Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the origin story of Latin American studies by tracing the discipline's roots back to the first half of the twentieth century. Salvatore focuses on the work of five representative U.S. scholars of... -
Che on My Mind by Margaret Randall 9780822355786
RRP: £85.00£68.71Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che]... -
Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela by Sujatha Fernandes 9780822346777
RRP: £24.99£20.01In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the... -
Cultural Agency in the Americas by Doris Sommer 9780822334996
RRP: £26.99£21.24"Cultural agency" refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages... -
Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic by Victor M. Uribe-Uran 9780804794633
RRP: £72.00£57.33One night in December 1800, in the distant mission outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico, Eulalia Californio and her lover Primo plotted the murder of her abusive husband. While the victim was sleeping, Prio and his brother tied a rope around Juan... -
Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies by Ann Twinam 9780804750929
RRP: £134.00£107.44The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome... -
From Frontier Town to Metropolis: A History of Villavicencio, Colombia, since 1842 by Jane M. Rausch 9780742554740
RRP: £51.00£44.62Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogota, the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated... -
Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World by Richard P. Tucker 9780742553651
RRP: £38.00£33.51Now in a concise edition created expressly for students and general readers, this widely hailed study traces the transformation of the tropics in modern times. Exploring the central role of the United States in the ongoing devastation of tropical lands,... -
Signals of War: The Falklands Conflict of 1982 by Lawrence Freedman 9780691607603
RRP: £72.00£56.21The 1982 Falklands War was not only one of the most extraordinary military confrontations of recent years but also a turning point in the politics of Britain and Argentina. This unusual book makes it possible for us to follow the development of the war... -
Yankee No!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations by Alan McPherson 9780674019973
RRP: £27.95£22.15In 1958, angry Venezuelans attacked Vice President Richard Nixon in Caracas, opening a turbulent decade in Latin American-U.S. relations. In Yankee No! Alan McPherson sheds much-needed light on the controversial and pressing problem of anti-U.S... -
Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo 9780520301078
RRP: £34.00£26.97This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts... -
Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico by Nicole von Germeten 9780520297319
RRP: £30.00£23.29Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of... -
Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas by Macarena Gomez-Barris 9780520296664
RRP: £80.00£61.89How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In Beyond the Pink Tide, Macarena Gomez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist,... -
Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil by Jessica Lynn Graham 9780520293762
RRP: £25.00£19.59This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century-the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The... -
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil by Maite Conde 9780520290990
RRP: £30.00£24.45In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema. Focusing on silent films released during the First Republic (1889-1930), Foundational Films explores how the medium became implicated in a... -
Why Latin American Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century by Matias Vernengo 9780520290297
RRP: £80.00£61.89Economic and social development is a major topic of discussion in courses across the social sciences, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment... -
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America by Zeb Tortorici 9780520288157
RRP: £25.00£19.59Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America's colonial and early national periods. Together the essays examine how... -
Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana by Guadalupe Garcia 9780520286030
RRP: £80.00£61.89This is one of the earliest and most important port cities in the New World, Havana quickly became a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. Beyond the Walled City tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed... -
Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People by Arlene Davila 9780520274693
RRP: £25.00£19.59Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in... -
Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross by William F. Hanks 9780520257702
RRP: £63.00£49.38This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary range and depth of sources, William F. Hanks... -
New Approaches to Latin American History by Richard Graham 9780292741027
RRP: £24.99£20.01New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts... -
Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present by Darlene J. Sadlier 9780292718579
RRP: £36.00£27.36The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity. Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world,... -
Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right by Victoria Gonzalez 9780271021010
RRP: £32.95£29.47Radical Women in Latin America is a collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines-anthropology, history, and political science-on the political activism of women from both the left and the right. The stories of these radical... -
The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire by Bianca Premo 9780190638733
RRP: £43.99£33.44This is a history not of an Enlightenment but rather the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. Its principal protagonists, rather than members of a... -
Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador by David Carey, Jr. 9780520344792
RRP: £30.00£23.29Populated by curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, nurses, and the indigenous people they served, this nuanced history demonstrates how cultural and political history, misogyny, racism, and racialization influence public health. In the... -
Growth of the Modern West Indies by Gordon K. Lewis 9780853451303
RRP: £20.00£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853451303Author Gordon K. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870 by John Tutino 9780822361145
RRP: £103.00£82.73After 1750 the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capitalism. Political revolution made the United States the first new nation; revolutionary slaves... -
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America by James E. Sanders 9780822357643
RRP: £97.00£77.62In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging... -
The Great Depression in Latin America by Alan Knight 9780822357384
RRP: £97.00£77.62Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the...