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Histories of Infamy
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 34.95In Histories of Infamy, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera explores Francisco López de Gómara's (1511-ca.1559) attempt to ethically reconcile Spain's civilizing mission with the conquistadors' abuse and exploitation of Native peoples. The most widely read account of the conquest in its time, Gómara's Historia general de las Indias y Conquista de México rationalized... more...
'68
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 12.95On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse until 1971. Official denial... more...
El Sicario
Nation Books 2011; US$ 15.99In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs and reveals why the violence that now defines the American-Mexican border will only worsen. more...
Perla
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest. Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she... more...
The Hunt for Pancho Villa - The Columbus Raid and Pershing#s Punitive Expedition 1916-17
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 9.95On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4,800 men into Mexico to capture Villa.... more...
Politics and Trade in Mexico 17501821
Cambridge University Press 1971; US$ 27.00Brian Hamnett has based his study on archival sources in Seville and Mexico. more...
Territories in Resistance
AK Press 2012; US$ 14.99A thoughtful examination of social relations in Latin America, from one of the region's foremost political analysts. more...
The British Textile Trade in South America in the Nineteenth Century
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00This book explores the marketing chain of British textile exports to South America and sheds light on South Americans' consumer behaviour. more...
Panama 1989-90
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 14.95In December 1989 US Army forces, supported by the US Air Force and US Navy, participated in Operation 'Just Cause'--the invasion of Panama. A combination of airborne, helicopter and ground assaults quickly secured key objectives and eliminated organized resistance. Beginning with a brief history of US-Panama relations and the development of the Panamanian... more...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 90.00The complex narrative technique of one of Spain's most renowned contemporary authors. more...









