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  • Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America

    • ASIN: 0393050696
    • ISBN: 0393050696
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    The 2013 James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year How to cook everything Latin American.Gran Cocina Latina unifies the vast culinary landscape of the Latin world, from Mexico to Argentina and all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean. In one volume it gives home cooks, armchair travelers, and curious chefs the first comprehensive colle... [Read More]

  • A Taste of Latin America: Culinary Traditions and Classic Recipes from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico & Venezuela

    • ASIN: 1623545218
    • ISBN: 1623545218
    • Manufacturer: Imagine

    Latin American food is steeped in history and tradition. From Peru's spicy and citrusy ceviche to hearty Colombian beef, pork, and seafood stews to Argentina's silky, sweet dulce le leche desserts, cooks of all skill levels are invited to discover what make this region's cuisine incomparable.  Complete with four-color photographs, expertly crafted... [Read More]

  • Modern Latin America

    • ASIN: 0199929238
    • ISBN: 0199929238
    • Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Now thoroughly updated in its eighth edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid, anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of the region over the past 200 years. For each country, Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith, and Ja... [Read More]

  • Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History

    • ASIN: 0195385683
    • ISBN: 0195385683
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History brings together the most important documents on the history of the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. In addition to standard diplomatic sources, the book includes documents touching on the transnational concerns that are inc... [Read More]

  • An Environmental History of Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)

    • ASIN: 0521612985
    • ISBN: 0521612985
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropic... [Read More]

  • Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (Women's Studies/Latin American Studies)

    • ASIN: 0520065530
    • ISBN: 9780520065536
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women’s participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.

  • Colonial Latin America

    • ASIN: 019934048X
    • ISBN: 019934048X
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    The ninth edition of Colonial Latin America provides a concise study of the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World and their preconquest background to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. Colonial Latin America is indispensable for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the fascinating and often colorful ... [Read More]

  • Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America: Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants: Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants (Jaguar Books on Latin America)

    • ASIN: 0742537390
    • ISBN: 0742537390
    • Brand: Brand: Rowman Littlefield Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

    This thoughtful text describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina. Ta... [Read More]

  • Latin America since Independence: A History with Primary Sources

    • ASIN: 0415854377
    • ISBN: 0415854377
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    What is Latin America, after all? While histories of the "other" Americas often link disparate histories through revolutionary or tragic narratives, Latin America since Independence begins with the assumption that our efforts to imagine a common past for nearly thirty countries are deeply problematic. Without losing sight of chronology or regional ... [Read More]

  • Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History

    • ASIN: 0842029974
    • ISBN: 0842029974
    • Brand: Brand: Rowman Littlefield Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

    Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to ... [Read More]

  • African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • ASIN: 0195189426
    • ISBN: 0195189426
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    • ASIN: 0853459916
    • ISBN: 0853459916
    • Brand: Monthly Review Press
    • Manufacturer: Monthly Review Press

    Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or... [Read More]

  • The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition

    • ASIN: 0226306909
    • ISBN: 0226306909
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival resea... [Read More]

  • A History of Latin America, 9th ed.

    • ASIN: 1133050506
    • ISBN: 1133050506
    • Brand: Cengage Learning
    • Manufacturer: Cengage Learning

    The best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which stre... [Read More]

  • Next Year in Havana

    • ASIN: B072BLV8Y9
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK“A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice.”—Reese WitherspoonAfter the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity—and unearths a family secret hidden ... [Read More]

  • Stories from Latin America / Historias de Latinoamérica, Premium Third Edition

    • ASIN: 1260011275
    • ISBN: 1260011275
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Enjoy tales from Latin America while sharpening your new language skills!Practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support ... [Read More]

  • Latin America and the Caribbean: Lands and Peoples

    • ASIN: 0199759243
    • ISBN: 0199759243
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Respected by scholars for its currency, clarity, authority, and rich visual and map program, Latin America and the Caribbean: Lands and Peoples, Fifth Edition, elucidates the commonalities in this highly diverse, rapidly changing region, making it more comprehensive than ever for students and instructors.

  • Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000

    • ASIN: 0195152336
    • ISBN: 0195152336
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States.In this, the first history of the African dia... [Read More]

  • 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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