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The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 53.00A history of the peasant movement ANUC and its land struggles. more...
From Man to Ape
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 39.00Upon its publication, The Origin of Species was critically embraced in Europe and North America. But how did Darwin’s theories fare in other regions of the world? Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine offer here a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating the ways culture shapes scientific enterprise.... more...
The Other West
University of California Press 2011; US$ 26.95The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on historical processes and explains how this vast expanse... more...
Buried Alive
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 24.99The inside story of the thirty-three Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet underground that captivated the world more...
The Amazon
Oxford University Press, USA 2006; US$ 15.99Features eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, about his trip through the Amazonin 1905, written to describe the Brazilian hinterlands to the urban citizens. more...
A Concise History of Bolivia
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 23.00This new edition brings the history of Bolivian society up to the present day. more...
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 12.99What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and ?discovered? Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark... more...
The Battle of Venezuela
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 12.95In August 2004, the Venezuelan public came out in record numbers to deliver an overwhelming vote of confidence. After many attempts to unseat him, Hugo Chåvez, the former military man who took the country first by coup and then by ballot, again emerged as the people?s choice. It was, in his words, "a victory for the people of Venezuela." Yet despite... more...
Other Septembers, Many Americas
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 16.95"Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup in which the U.S. government was complicit. "Beware the plague... more...
Peru's Amazon & Southeastern Jungle
Hunter Publishing 2009; US$ 8.99This guide tells you everything about where to stay & eat, what to see & do, the culture, the history, the festivals, art & cuisine. The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on earth. With the Brazilian Amazon being cut down at an ever-increasing rate to make room for cow pastures, Peru's portion of the forest is still relatively... more...









