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The Chaco War 1932-35
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95Often over-shadowed by contemporary events in China and Japan, the Chaco War (1932-1935) was a massive territorial war between Bolivia and Paraguay, which cost almost 100,000 lives. It was sparked by Bolivia's attempts to capture a stretch of the Paraguay River to gain access to the Atlantic. An old fashioned territorial dispute, the contested... more...
Populism in Latin America
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 34.95This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular. For more than one hundred years—from the beginning of the twentieth to the early twenty-first century—Latin... more...
Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00This book examines the formative period of Chile's history, and combines an analysis of the ideas and assumptions of the Chilean political class with a narrative of the political process from the consolidation of the Conservative regime in the 1830s, to the beginnings of liberalization in the early 1860s. more...
The Price of Fire
AK Press 2007; US$ 11.95Bolivia's powerful social movements and the forces they're up against. more...
Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 48.00This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the development of plantation society in Bahia. 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...
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...









