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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 60.00Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged... more...
The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade
Cambridge University Press 1970; US$ 46.00He covers a major aspect of the history of the international abolition of the slave trade. more...
The History of Costa Rica
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 58.00Concise yet thorough, this engaging book provides an overview of the unique history of an increasingly important Central American nation. more...
The Limits of Gender Domination
University of New Mexico Press 2011; US$ 29.95By documenting the progressive removal of limits to patriarchal power in the waning years of the Spanish Empire in Quito, this study traces the genealogy of legal patriarchy in Spanish America. more...
Che Guevara
Cooper Square Press 2001; US$ 16.99James provides an in-depth look at the Latin American revolutionary's formative years, and proceeds to examine Guevara's successes and failures in his international battles, to his desperate hours as a dying soldier. more...
Neighborly Adversaries
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2006; US$ 38.99The history of U.S.-Latin American relations has been marked by a complex fusion of tension, misperception, intervention, and cooperation. Providing a balanced and interdisciplinary interpretation, this comprehensive reader traces the troubled relationship from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the post-9/11 period. Thoroughly revised and... more...
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013; US$ 28.99The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial... more...
MEXICO: The Struggle for Peace and Bread
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 25.95Into this illuminating study of the meaning of Mexico?s recent history Frank Tannenbaum has put the distillation of more than three decades of the familiarity with that country. Having traveled Mexico from the Rio Grande to the Guatemalan border, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and having been friendly with peasants, city folk, politicians, philosophers,... more...
Latinos in the Legislative Process
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00Explores Latino representation by taking a comprehensive look at the role of ethnicity throughout the legislative process in seven states. more...









