Latin America - Central America
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Cuba 1959: Novela. Ficcion Historica
$24.02 Add to cartCUBA 1959 is a fictional novel written in the Spanish language that recounts the determination and success of a group of young Cubans resisting against Fidel Castro’s takeover of the island on January
- Author: Rivero, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 1481779559
- Language: Spanish
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Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
$24.00 Add to cartAn honest judge in Medellin, a Maoist guerilla of Peru’s Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina’s Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nic… [more below]
- Author: Rosenberg, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140172548
- Language: English
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Guardianas: Dispatches from the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade / Despachos de la Asociaci?n de Parteras Rosa Andrade
$18.95 Add to cartA collection of testimonies from midwives in El Salvador who delivered babies during the twelve-year-long civil war and today fight to protect their ancestral role to care for the reproductive health … [more below]
- Author: Delgado, NoemÃ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214768
- Language: English
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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
$24.00 Add to cartThe Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience o
- Author: Parker, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 1400095182
- Language: English
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Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
$35.00 Add to cartThe poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.
In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a s- Author: Nolan, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 674270355
- Language: English
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Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
$17.95 Add to cartRestores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. … [more below]
- Author: Chomsky, Aviva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0807055417
- Language: English
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The Maya
$31.95 Add to cartThe Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by dis
- Author: Coe, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 050029514X
- Language: English
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Salvador
$17.00 Add to cart“Terror is the given of the place.” The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion “brings the country to life” (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a parti… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751831
- Language: English
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Letters from Mexico
$14.99 Add to cartHernan Cortes’s Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town o… [more below]
- Author: Cortes, Hernan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964910
- Language: English
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DÃganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraÃso: Memorias de una prisionera polÃtica
$17.99 Add to cartDÃganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraÃso recoge las memorias de una joven salvadoreña de espÃritu curioso y rebelde, que la lleva a recorrer el mundo. Al regresar a su patria, se inserta en las
- Author: Gasteazoro, Ana Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736231650
- Language: Spanish
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The Conquest of New Spain
$22.99 Add to cartVivid, 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 … [more below]
- Author: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Diaz Del Casti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 28 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961806
- Language: English
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient May
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Recinos, Adrien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0806122668
- Language: English
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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe 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 … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0190645024
- Language: English
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The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas.
This book is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt’s Good
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168802
- Language: English
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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
$26.95 Add to cartnew in paperback
Silence 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… [more below]- Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
- Author: Wilkinson, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0822333686
- Language: English
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
$22.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: 15-Oct-78
- ISBN10: 0671244094
- Language: English
