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An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indiesby Bartolomé De Las Casas; Franklin W. Knight; Andrew Hurley
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2003; US$ 11.50Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain?s conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king?s colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it. Andrew Hurley?s daring new translation dramatically foreshortens that five hundred years by reversing the usual priority of a translation; rather than bring... more...
Political Geography of Latin Americaby Jonathan R. Barton
Routledge 1997; US$ 71.95This book approaches the diversity of south and central America from a critical human geography perspective. It seeks to overcome stereotypes by stressing the need for an inclusionary political geography which cuts across traditional boundaries more...
Latin Americaby John Ward
Routledge 1997; US$ 22.95Using an interdisciplinary approach, and covering a range of themes from social welfare to the wider world, Latin America provides challenging and argumentative interpretations of current situations and prospects. more...
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Culturesby Daniel Balderston; Mike Gonzalez; Ana M. L'opez
Routledge 2000; US$ 775.00This ground-breaking Encyclopedia offers more than 4000 entries on all aspects of the dynamic and exciting contemporary cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. more...
United States and Latin Americaby Joseph Smith; A.S.F. Sayao
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 35.95This timely work explores central themes such as the structure of international relations, and the pursuit of American national interest by the use of diplomacy, cultural imperialism and economic and military power. more...
Reproducing Empireby Laura Briggs
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. more...
The Idea of Latin Americaby Walter D. Mignolo
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2009; US$ 99.95The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe. Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the present day. Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas. Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by the image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders. Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe. more...
El Libertadorby Simon Bolivar; Fred Fornoff; David Bushnell
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 8.95General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolivar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolivar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations,... more...
Introduction to Latin Americaby P. Kirby
Sage Publications Ltd. 2003; US$ 60.00Latin America in a Globalized World provides a completely new introduction to the political, social and economic forces shaping this essential region of undergraduate study today. It is the first textbook to place Latin America within a genuinely global context and introduce the debates and impact of globalization, neo-liberalism, democratization, and the environment. more...
Pop Culture Latin America!by Lisa Shaw
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 85.00This is a survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics from music and film to popular festivals and fashion. The book aims to show how different music and cultural traditions take different forms with peoples throughout the region. more...









