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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...
The History of Ecuador
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 58.00This handbook provides an unmatched, comprehensive political history of Ecuador written in English. more...
Jungle Capitalists
Canongate Books 2009; US$ 10.82In this powerful and gripping book, Peter Chapman shows how the pioneering example of the banana importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of today?s multinational companies. From the business?s 19th Century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica, via the mass-marketing of the banana as the original fast food, United... 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...
Geological Observations on South America
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. . . more...
33 Men
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 25.95Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010. Franklin, with his renowned eye for detail and dialogue, captures the remarkable story of these men to reveal to the world how they used their native talents to survive against... more...
Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 60.00This volume explore problems faced by archaeologists in the difficult conditions of the lowland American tropics. more...
Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 37.50Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship,... more...









