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  • Beyond Civilization and Barbarism

    Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina

    Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829-1852) versus a dissident intellectual elite. Most famously, Domingo Faustino ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Modernidad, secularización e Iglesia en América Latina. Los obispos latinoamericanos y el cambio cultural

    Muchos de los estudios sociológicos sobre el cambio cultural contemporáneo en América Latina han pasado por alto el papel de la Iglesia católica y sus obispos, tanto como promotores y facilitadores de la modernidad, como por ser, en ocasiones, sus principales detractores y obstaculizadores. El presente libro ofrece una síntesis crítica de la postura de los obispos latinoamericanos frente a la ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Eva Perón

    A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

    Series series Significant Figures in World History
    No Latin American woman has ever elicited such extreme feelings of love and hate as Eva Perón. She was an actress of humble origins who fell in love with and married the soon-to-be president of Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón. Evita, as she was fondly known, became the most powerful woman in Argentine history. Adored by the masses and loathed by the bourgeoisie, Evita polarized Argentine society. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD $27.99 USD

  • Venezuela Heroica

    Historical Vignettes

    Series Book 241 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
    For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely annotated, the book retains the literary beauty and entertaining character of the original, presenting a vivid account of the Venezuelan wars waged against Spain while seeking independence. Stories of the major battles and the most famous heroes of the ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Indigenous Life After the Conquest

    The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico

    Series series Latin American Originals
    This book presents a unique set of written records belonging to the De la Cruz family, caciques of Tepemaxalco in the Toluca Valley. Composed in Nahuatl and Spanish and available here both in the original languages and in English translation, this collection of documents opens a window onto the life of a family from colonial Mexico’s indigenous elite and sheds light on the broader indigenous world ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cuando la patria mata

    La historia del anarquista Julio Rebosio (1914-1920)

    El libro del historiador Víctor Muñoz Cortés “Cuando la patria mata. La historia del anarquista Julio Rebosio (1914-1920)” es una biografía social que permite adentrarnos en el apasionante mundo de la historia ácrata en su “etapa esplendorosa” en Chile, hacia fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX. Y es que el autor se centra en la vida y obra del anarquista Julio Rebosio en tanto ... Read more

    $1.97 USD

  • A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America

    Edited by Pablo A. Baisotti ...
    This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical perspectives for understanding national, regional and global issues from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, from analysis of the traditional "hegemony" of the United States over Latin ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Daily Life in Colonial Latin America

    Series series The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
    This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America—the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, and the Africans brought over as slaves.Drawing on a wealth of primary documents and recent research, Daily Life in Colonial Latin America gives readers a genuine sense of everyday living in Central and South America, from the age of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Mulatto Republic

    Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity

    “Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes proves that there was a multitude of factors that sharpen our knowledge of the development of race and nation in the Dominican Republic.”—Millery Polyné, author of From Douglass to Duvalier“A fascinating book. Mayes discusses the roots of anti ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • El Mesías de Handel Alfonso López Michelsen ¿Delincuente de cuello blanco?

    Series series Historia de Colombia
    Según el historiador Indalecio Liévano Aguirre, las galerías de prohombres colombianos están llenas de mediocres, provenientes de una fronda aristrocrática, que mediante las leyes redactadas al acomodo, abusa del poder político, gracias a la ignorancia colectiva del pueblo.Por otra parte, es usual que muchos de esos prohombres hayan sido delincuentes de cuello blanco, cuyas familias amasaron ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin America and the Origins of Its Twenty-First Century

    Latin American societies were created as pre-industrial colonies, that is, peoples whose cultures and racial makeup were largely determined by having been conquered by Spain or Portugal. In all these societies, a colonial heritage created political and social attitudes that were not conducive to the construction of democratic civil societies. And yet, Latin America has a public life--not merely ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Latin American Modern Architectures

    Ambiguous Territories

    Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Death Is a Festival

    Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Palonegro La batalla más sangrienta de la guerra de los mil días

    Series Book 6 - Historia de Colombia La República
    "Palonegro será siempre un yerro de estrategia y un pecado de táctica, un monumento de pavor para ejemplo de la esterilidad de las guerras civiles; más en este campo donde tantos estragos hicieron los cosacos de las bestias apocalípticas, quedó demostrada la masculinidad de los colombianos, llegados de todos los rincones del país". (Coronel Leonidas Flórez Álvarez, "Campañas de Santander", página ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summer of Rage

    An Oral History of the 1967 Newark and Detroit Riots

    Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, Summer of Rage examines the causes and consequences of urban unrest that occurred in Newark and Detroit during the summer of 1967. It seeks to give voice to those who experienced these events firsthand and places personal narratives in a broader theoretical framework involving issues of collective memory, trauma, race relations, and urban ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Anarchists of the Caribbean

    Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion

    Series series Global and International History
    Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • El conflicto colombo peruano

    Política-Guerra-Diplomacia

    Series Book 3 - Historia Militar de Colombia Guerra con el Perú (1932)
    La lucha de los excombatientes de una guerra se prolonga más allá de las batallas. Su vida parece estar signada por la necesidad de enfrentar todos los días, el olvido que adormece la memoria ciudadana y que amenaza con tornar insignificante el valor del sacrificio y el dolor de quienes un día dejaron en suspenso la existencia esperando su regreso.Sus cabezas blancas y su cansado andar por el ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Apocalypse, No Integration

    Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America

    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in a region marked by incomplete modernization, new waves of privatization, great masses of excluded peoples, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America

    This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Locating watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organized power of the ruling classes and in the processes by which gender has conditioned state-making, Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Missionary Capitalist

    Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela

    by Darlene Rivas ...
    Series series The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy
    The first work to draw on Nelson A. Rockefeller's newly available personal papers as well as research in Latin American archives, Missionary Capitalist details Rockefeller's efforts to promote economic development in Latin America, particularly Venezuela, from the late 1930s through the 1950s.Rockefeller's involvement in the region began in 1936 with his investment in Creole Petroleum, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Obama and the New Left in Latin America

    by Clara Nieto ...
    Obama and the New Left in Latin America is a political radiogram of the transformations that have taken place in Latin America over the past decade, with a particular focus on the region's fraught relations with the United States. Colombian journalist Clara Nieto reflects with seasoned acuity on the new ideological movements sweeping through Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina, as ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planetary Longings

    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • João Monteiro Dos Santos O Marido Da Carmelita

    JOÃO MONTEIRO DOS SANTOS, O MARIDO DA CARMELITA. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of Infamy

    Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism

    "Roa-de-la-Carrera convincingly shows that Gómara, as well as other historians in the period, cannot easily ignore nor erase the contradictions of the Spanish colonial project."- Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas“In an eloquent and thorough exegesis, Roa-de-la-Carrera reveals how and why López de Gómara, having written the best of all possible books in exultation of Spanish ... Read more

    $15.99 USD