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The Battle of Venezuela
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 12.95In August 2004, the Venezuelan public came out in record numbers to deliver an overwhelming vote of confidence. After many attempts to unseat him, Hugo Chåvez, the former military man who took the country first by coup and then by ballot, again emerged as the people?s choice. It was, in his words, "a victory for the people of Venezuela." Yet despite... more...
Central America and the Treaty of Versailles
Haus Publishing 2011; US$ 25.00Cuba, Haiti, Honduras and others were rewarded for their involvement in the war by a seat at the top table. more...
Tecpan Guatemala
Westview Press 2002; US$ 33.00What does it mean to be Maya in the modern world? Focusing on a Guatemalan town, this case study explores the cultural, political, and economic changes of this society over time. more...
Harvesting Change
The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 45.00One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor. But its attempts to promote balanced economic development and redistribute agricultural resources created labor shortages that threatened the country's economic lifeline. New employment opportunities created through agrarian reform upset... more...
With Christmas in Honduras
Thunder's Mouth 2013; US$ 24.95Over the last twenty years, Lucius Shepard has carved out a unique place for himself in American literature, a hard-to-classify territory between fantasy and literature that is infused at once with a strong political sensibility, a sense of history, and elements of fantasy. His first work of nonfiction, With Christmas in Honduras revolves around... more...
Globalization on the Ground
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2001; US$ 36.99This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change. The... more...
The War Against Epidemics in Colonial Guatemala 1519-1821
Bitingduck Press 1999; US$ 10.95Using colonial tax and census records, scholars think the indigenous population dropped at least 90% in the first 160 years after the European conquest. Mismanagement, drought, famine, flood, earthquakes, and even volcanic eruptions all had their victims but the chief cause of death were none of these. In colonial Guatemala the pests, the epidemics,... more...
Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology
Routledge 2004; US$ 120.00Presents the current state of of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the past hundred years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the more...
The Americas
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 14.00From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound together, yet these connections are generally ignored. In this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells, for the first time, the story of our hemisphere as a whole,... more...









