Latin America - South America
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Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives
$27.95 Add to cartIn this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.
Venezuela in Crisi
- Author: Bean, Anderson M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888904640
- Language: English
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The Violence: My Family’s Colombian War
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.
When presumed president-elect Jorge Eli?cer Gait- Author: RamÃrez, Adriana E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1501145207
- Language: English
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Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism
$24.00 Add to cartOstensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America’s most important essa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sarmiento, Domingo F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436774
- Language: English
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Rio de Janeiro
$22.99 Add to cartWhat do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal th… [more below]
- Series: Ten Moments That Shaped
- Author: McCann, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: June 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1009012045
- Language: English
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Iosi, the Remorseful Spy
$23.95 Add to cartA gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires.
An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the military- Author: Lewin, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214571
- Language: English
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Tristes Tropiques
$22.00 Add to cartA milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology
This watershed work records Claude L?i-Strauss’s search for “a human society reduced to its most basic expression.” From
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106252
- Language: English
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
$30.00 Add to cartFor readers of Say Nothing and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the epic true story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo–grandmothers who fought to find their stolen grandchildren during Argentina’s … [more below]
- Author: Gilliland, Haley Cohen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1668017148
- Language: English
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Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
$41.58 Add to cart2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next … [more below]
- Author: Wright, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365485
- Language: English
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Lost Paititi and the Non-Human Remains of Nazca
$22.00 Read moreFrench explorer and anthropologist Thierry Jamin relates finding from his years in Peru in search of the lost Inca city of Paititi plus his most recent escapades with non-human skeletons at Nazca on t… [more below]
- Author: Jamin, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1948803526
- Language: English
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The Maya: Lost Civilizations
$37.50 Read moreAn illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries.
This book reveals how the ancient Maya–and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities–- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: O’Neil, Megan E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145503
- Language: English
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Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored
$50.00 Read more“Dictators and the Disappeared is a book that should be found in every library and bookstore of democratic nations, particularly in the U.S., whose foreign policy has been instrumental in supporting … [more below]
- Author: Davidson, Russ
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0890136750
- Language: English
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
$40.83 Add to cartRevised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup–“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortiet- Author: Kornbluh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589120
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
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634 Maneras de Matar a Fidel: Planes de la CIA Y La Mafia Para Asesinar a Fidel Castro
$18.95 Read moreExpansivo recuento de los diversos, creativos, frecuentemente extraños y sin embargo increÃblemente inquietantes intentos de asesinar a Fidel Castro.
Fabián Escalante, el fundador de los servicios de- Author: Escalante, Fabian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1925756343
- Language: Spanish
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Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
$40.99 Add to cartA major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts
Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of- Author: Covey, R. Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190299126
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Brazil
$32.00 Add to cartThe second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America’s largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil’s history from the arrival of the Portuguese… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Fausto, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1107635241
- Language: English
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Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America
$16.95 Add to cartChildress takes the reader on journeys deep into deadly jungles, windswept mountains, and scorching deserts in search of lost civilisations and ancient mysteries. Explore stone cities high in mountain… [more below]
- Series: Lost Cities Series
- Author: Childress, David Hatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: October 03 1995
- ISBN10: 093281302X
- Language: English
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The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartThe Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in Englis… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0822353601
- Language: English
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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartHemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a d… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Lambert, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0822352680
- Language: English
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History of Peru: A Captivating Guide to Peruvian History, Starting from the ChavÃn Civilization and Other Ancient Andean Civilizations
$23.99 Add to cartPeru is a land of majesty and wonder where myth, legend, and history all come together. And this book gives you a front-row seat!
The land of Peru is one that, for many, seems far away and distant. Eve
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168942
- Language: English
