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Latin America

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  • Mexico Since 1980by Stephen Haber; Herbert S. Klein; Noel Maurer; Kevin Middlebrook

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 20.00

    Addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. more...

  • Americanosby John Chasteen

    Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 12.95

    Preface. Discovering America, 1799-1805. Pillars of the Crown, 1806-1810. Not-so-Civil Wars, 1810-1812. A Lost Cause?, 1812-1815. Independence Won, 1816-1824. Nation-Building Begins, 1824-1850 more...

  • Mosquito Empiresby J. R. McNeill

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 20.00

    This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. more...

  • Latin America Transformedby Bob Gwynne; Cristobal Kay

    Hodder Education 2004; US$ 49.95

    Now in a second edition, this book explains Latin America's economic, political, social and cultural transformations, its association with globalization and search for modernity, and how these transformations are affecting the people of the region. Using a political economy approach to unravel these concepts, the emphasis is placed on interpreting the macro-level structures that frame the transformations taking place. Updated and revised to include more student friendly features, the authors have substantially rewritten the material, including three new chapters, to examine the challenges facing Latin American in the twenty-first century. more...

  • An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indiesby Bartolomé De Las Casas; Franklin W. Knight; Andrew Hurley

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2003; US$ 11.50

    Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain?s conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king?s colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it. Andrew Hurley?s daring new translation dramatically foreshortens that five hundred years by reversing the usual priority of a translation; rather than bring... more...

  • The Caudillo of the Andesby Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

    Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 19.00

    The story of Andrés de Santa Cruz, who lived during the turbulent transition from Spanish colonial rule to the founding of Peru and Bolivia. more...

  • Political Geography of Latin Americaby Jonathan R. Barton

    Routledge 1997; US$ 71.95

    This book approaches the diversity of south and central America from a critical human geography perspective. It seeks to overcome stereotypes by stressing the need for an inclusionary political geography which cuts across traditional boundaries more...

  • Politics of Technology in Latin Americaby Maria Ines Bastos

    Routledge 1996; US$ 200.00

    Based on country studies and industry studies in the main Latin American economies, this collection sets out to explore technology policy in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. more...

  • Latin Americaby John Ward

    Routledge 1997; US$ 22.95

    Using an interdisciplinary approach, and covering a range of themes from social welfare to the wider world, Latin America provides challenging and argumentative interpretations of current situations and prospects. more...

  • The Path Between the Seasby David McCullough

    Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 14.99

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough... more...