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Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien
PublicAffairs 2008; US$ 24.95An American reporter in Argentina struggles to learn the tango by night, while by day covering the country as it slides into financial crisis and revolution more...
Memories of Conquest
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 45.00Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala--the study first to focus on a single allied colony over the entire colonial period--places... more...
Wolf Tracks
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 55.00Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school... more...
Seeking Peace in El Salvador
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 95.00The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work questions how peace was made and whether it has endured. more...
Labor and Love in Guatemala
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 65.00Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspectives on the major social trends that emerged across Spain's American colonies: populations from three continents mingled; native people and Africans... more...
Modernizing Minds in El Salvador
University of New Mexico Press 2012; US$ 29.95In this thoughtful collaborative study, the authors examine the processes by which education reform in El Salvador in the 1960s and 1970s became entwined in debates over theories of modernization and the politics of anticommunism. more...
The Mermaid and the Lobster Diver
University of New Mexico Press 2012; US$ 29.95Interspersed with short stories, songs, and incantations, The Mermaid and the Lobster Diver demonstrates the archetypes of femininity and masculinity within Miskitu society, highlighting the power associated with women's sexuality-as manifested in bot more...
British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba, 1898?1964
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 92.00An analysis of Cuba's history from a British diplomatic perspective during the period of US political and economic domination, from 1898 to 1964. It investigates how Britain attempted to protect its trade and other interests in the island, whilst always sensitive to the reactions of its most important ally, the United States. more...
The Last Days of the Incas
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 18.00In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa... more...
Buried Secrets
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 38.00Based on exhaustive research, this work chronicles the journey of Maya survivors seeking truth, justice and community healing. It demonstrates that the Guatemalan army carried out a systematic and intentional genocide against the Maya during La Violencia in the 1970s and 80s. more...









