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Latin America in Colonial Times
- ASIN: 0521132606
- ISBN: 0521132606
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal atte... [Read More]
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When We Left Cuba
- ASIN: B07D23VWQC
- Manufacturer: Berkley
Instant New York Times bestseller!In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating New York Times bestselling historical novel from the author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heir... [Read More]
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Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (Fourth Edition)
- ASIN: 0393283054
- ISBN: 9780393283051
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
The most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cultural analyses of Latin American society and facilitate meaningful connections between the Encounter and the present. Throughout the Fourth Edition, a new fu... [Read More]
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The Penguin History of Latin America
- ASIN: 0141034750
- ISBN: 9780141034751
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an... [Read More]
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Latin America, First Edition: Regions and People (Texts in Regional Geography)
- ASIN: 1572309091
- ISBN: 1572309091
- Brand: Brand: The Guilford Press
- Manufacturer: The Guilford Press
This comprehensive text introduces key geographical concepts while providing an incisive, timely, and highly informative primer on Latin America. Thematic chapters trace the development of the region from the pre-Hispanic era to the present, while regional chapters reveal the diversity of its constituent people and places. Coverage includes cultura... [Read More]
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- ASIN: 1568585616
- ISBN: 1568585616
- Brand: Nation Books
- Manufacturer: Bold Type Books
The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United ... [Read More]
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My Beloved World
- ASIN: B00957T7CQ
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America (A Century Foundation Book)
- ASIN: 0801474191
- ISBN: 0801474191
- Brand: Brand: Century Foundation
- Manufacturer: Century Foundation
"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity―human rights and anticommunism―come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U.S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U.S. policy as a whole. It required policy makers to choose between policies designed to defeat communism at any cost ... [Read More]
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Rank and Privilege: The Military and Society in Latin America (Jaguar Books on Latin America)
- ASIN: 0842024336
- ISBN: 0842024336
- Brand: Brand: Harpercollins College Div
- Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dr. Linda A. RodrÌguez has assembled a new collection of essays that finally provides the historical context necessary to understand the Latin American military. The articles included here examine a variety of time periods and nations, from the counterinsurgency army of New Spain, to the nineteenth-century War of the Pacific, to the modern relatio... [Read More]
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So I Bought an Air Force: The True Story of a Gritty Midwesterner in Somoza's Nicaragua
- ASIN: 1938690362
- ISBN: 9781938690365
- Manufacturer: Two Harbors Press
Nicaraguan strongman General Anastasio Somoza is making room for the modern jets sent down by his Cold War ally, the United States. Will Martin, a 34-year-old civilian pilot, has just suffered the loss of his family business in Chicago and is looking to make a fresh start. So I Bought An Air Force is the wild but true tale of how Martin buys the Ni... [Read More]
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Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback))
- ASIN: 0312393555
- ISBN: 0312393555
- Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
In 1519 Hernán Cortés and a small band of Spanish conquistadors overthrew the mighty Mexican empire of the Aztecs. Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz's 1632 account of the Spanish victory and testimonies — many recently uncovered — of indigenous Nahua survivors, Victors and Vanquished clearly demonstrates how personal interests, ... [Read More]
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
- ASIN: 0060883286
- ISBN: 9780060883287
- Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece... [Read More]
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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
- ASIN: B0036S4ECS
- Manufacturer: Anchor
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (1) (Politics of Place)
- ASIN: 1501121472
- ISBN: 1501121472
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated ... [Read More]
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Conversational Spanish Dialogues: Over 100 Spanish Conversations and Short Stories (Conversational Spanish Dual Language Books)
- ASIN: 1718709927
- ISBN: 1718709927
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Is conversational Spanish turning a little too tricky for you? Do you have no idea on how to order a meal or book a room at a hotel?If your answer to any of the previous questions was ‘Yes', then this book is for you!If there's even been something tougher than learning the grammar rules of a new language, it's finding the way to speak with other ... [Read More]
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Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, With New Afterword (Series on Latin American Studies)
- ASIN: 0674025938
- ISBN: 9780674025936
- Brand: Kinzer, Stephen/ Grindle, Merilee S. (FRW)
- Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist―and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe in 1981 and joining the foreign staff of the New York Times in 1983. That year he opened the New York Times Man... [Read More]
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
- ASIN: 0451238141
- ISBN: 0451238141
- Brand: Celebra Trade
- Manufacturer: Celebra
THE COMPANION BOOK TO THE PBS DOCUMENTARY SERIESLatino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become, with more than fifty million people, the largest minority in the United States. This companion to the landmark PBS miniseries vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americ... [Read More]
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- ASIN: B00EGJ7KX6
- Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyondOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying score... [Read More]
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Culture Clash in AmeriCCa
- ASIN: 1559362162
- ISBN: 1559362162
- Brand: Brand: Theatre Communications Group
- Manufacturer: Theatre Communications Group
"Wicked, observant comedy interspersed with keenly acted monologues that make your heart ache." -Miami Herald"[The] Latino comedy trio simultaneously makes mincemeat out of American cultural icons and skewers the hell out of their own ethnic heritage - all the while showing the links between the two. This brilliant team of writer/performers offers ... [Read More]
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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
- ASIN: 0743276914
- ISBN: 0743276914
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one... [Read More]
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