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A Brief History of Peru
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 59.40In the seven years since the first edition was published, Peru has undergone significant changes that have had national and international consequences. A Brief History of Peru, Second Edition maintains the insightful narrative of the first edition and includes a history of the country?from its ancient peoples and the Inca Empire through the most recent... more...
Brazil on the Move
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00After witnessing two decades of political, economic, and social upheaval in Brazil, the author gives a first-hand account of the changes that prepared the ground for the Brazil we know today. more...
Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823?1889
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 70.00Official and popular celebrations marked the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity, and these civic rituals were the occasion for often intense debate about the imperial regime. Hendrik Kraay explores the patterns of commemoration in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, the meanings of the principal institutions of the constitutional monarchy established... more...
Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World
University of New Mexico Press 2013; US$ 50.00Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil. more...
The History of the Conquest of Peru
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 6.95A recognized Latin American history masterpiece "The History of the Conquest of Peru" offers an authoritative vision of Pizarro's turbulent defeat of the Inca Empire. Overflowing with spectacle, every page encapsulates the ruthlessness and arrogance of the conquistadors. more...
Developing Annuities Markets
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 19.99Developing Annuities Markets: The Experience of Chile is part of a multicountry World Bank project analyzing the market for retirement products. Among countries that have reformed their pension systems since the early 1990s, the Chilean case has emerged as the most relevant for drawing policy lessons on the role of the private sector in the provision... more...
The Priest of Paraguay
Zed Books 2009; US$ 29.95In The Priest of Paraguay Hugh O'Shaughnessy tells the story of how Fernando Lugo, a bishop from a deprived diocese, swept to victory and what this means for his country, Latin America and the wider world. more...
The Politics of Latin American Development
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 36.00An examination of the historical events that have shaped Latin America's fundamental economic and political dynamics. more...
The 33
Transworld 2011; US$ 9.34On 12 October 2010 the world's attention was fixed on a remote copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile. Final preparations were underway for a daring rescue to bring to an end the longest underground entrapment in human history. 69 days earlier, 33 men were midway through a routine shift, deep in the San Jose mine. They stopped for lunch at... more...
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...









