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24 Frames eBook Series

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  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Edited by Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Series series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... Read more

    ₹2,739.71

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  • 2012 and the End of the World

    The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse

    by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari ...
    Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon. They begin by ... Read more

    ₹1,188.96

  • Mexico

    A History

    by Robert Ryal Miller ...
    This book is a skillful synthesis of Mexico's complex and colorful history from pre-Columbian times to the present. Utilizing his many years of research and teaching as well as his personal experience in Mexico, the author incorporates recent archaeological evidence, posits fresh interpretations, and analyzes such current problems as foreign debt, dependency on petroleum exports, and providing ... Read more

    ₹2,019.56

  • That Infernal Little Cuban Republic

    The United States and the Cuban Revolution

    by Lars Schoultz ...
    Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its ... Read more

    ₹2,568.49

  • The Empire Trap

    The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013

    by Noel Maurer ...
    How the United States became an imperial power by bowing to pressure to defend its citizens' overseas investmentsThroughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S ... Read more

    ₹2,845.56

  • Everything You Need to Know About Latino History

    2008 Edition

    by Himilce Novas ...
    The popular primer to Latino life and culture.Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making, including:• New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s announced candidacy for the 2008 presidential election• ... Read more

    ₹540.19

  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Read more

    ₹617.60 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Junglas

    by Jim Morris ...
    Former Green Beret Jim Morris goes on a mission with the Colombian anti-narcotics police who ferret out the coca-growing revolutionaries known as FARC in the mountainous Colombian jungles. The anti-narcoterrorist force is known as the Junglas (pronounced Hoon-glas), and with top grade U.S. equipment and training, they are a formidable force indeed. You'll parallel the terrain in a Huey helicopter ... Read more

    ₹65.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Cubans

    A Transnational History

    by Kathleen M. López ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous “coolie” trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish ... Read more

    ₹2,397.16

  • Neither Peace nor Freedom

    The Cultural Cold War in Latin America

    by Patrick Iber ...
    During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for ... Read more

    ₹3,622.71

  • The Great Bahamian Hurricanes of 1899 and 1932

    The Story of Two of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes to Impact the Bahamas

    by Wayne Neely ...
    Hurricanes have long been a fact of life in the Bahamas. With extensive exposed coastlines jutting out of the Atlantic and uniquely flat lands and shallow coastal waters, these islands had seen many tempests before there was a Bahamas as we know it today.Hurricanes have shaped the islands landscape and, in a sense, their people as well. In the history of the Bahamasoften considered a patriarchal ... Read more

    ₹290.98

  • The Political Ecology of Bananas

    Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean

    by Lawrence S. Grossman ...
    This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere — capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on ... Read more

    ₹2,568.49