Category: History - Latin American
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A New Time for Mexico
By: Fuentes, Carlos
Price: $7.98
Publisher: University of California Press: November 1997
Seller ID: 287327
ISBN: 0520211839
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
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An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, and Related Texts
By: Knight, Franklin W.,Hurley, Andrew,Casas, Bartolome de Las
Price: $19.50
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.: September 2003
Seller ID: 264992
ISBN: 0872206262
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolom de Las Casas dedicated his Brev sima Relaci n de la Destruici n de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brev sima Relaci n 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.
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Ancient Mesoamerica: A Comparison of Change in Three Regions (New Studies in Archaeology)
By: Richard E. Blanton,Stephen A. Kowalewski,Gary M. Feinman,Jill Appel
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: March 1982
Seller ID: 269558
ISBN: 052129682x
Condition: Used - VeryGood
ARMS & INDUSTRY FOUNDATN (The Garland library of war and peace)
By: Angell
Price: $29.95
Publisher: Dissertations-G: June 1973
Seller ID: 30023
ISBN: 0824003217
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New - New
Beyond Superpower Rivalry: Latin America and the Third World (Geonomics Institute for International Economic Advancement)
By: N/A
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NYU Press: August 1991
Seller ID: 7300
ISBN: 0814792359
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New - New
In 1990, a NATO conference of heads of state proclaimed the end of the Cold War. Beyond Superpower Rivalry examines the implications of this statement for the countries of Latin America. How has Soviet policy toward these countries changed under Gorbachev? In turn, how has U.S. policy changed in response to the new political climate? What tangible effect will these developments have on Latin American countries? This book, a collection of essays by leading experts in academia, business, and government, analyzes the past influence of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on this region and debates...
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Bolivia: The Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society (Latin American Histories)
Price: $12.98
Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 1992
Seller ID: 288904
ISBN: 019505735X
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
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Dialogue and Armed Conflic: Negotiating the Civil War in El Salvador (Fpi Case Study, No. 12) (Journal of Indo-European Monograph Series)
By: Riordan Roett, Frank Smyth
Price: $3.00
Publisher: University Press Of America: September 1988
Seller ID: 53622
ISBN: 0941700372
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Relentless Persistence
By: Philip McManus
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New Society Pub: April 1990
Seller ID: 6175
ISBN: 0865711828
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico
By: Elizabeth Carmichael, Chloë Sayer
Price: $34.95
Publisher: University of Texas Press: January 1991
Seller ID: 92341
ISBN: 0292776586
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New - New
All over Mexico, early in November, families gather to welcome the souls of the dead on their annual visit home. The smells of burning copal incense and pungent cempasuchil (marigolds) mingle with the aromas of fresh bread, new clothing, sweets, and candles. One of Mexico's most important festivals since prehispanic times, the Day of the Dead is an occasion for celebrating and feasting, cleaning and decorating graves, dancing and making music.
In this unique work, the authors explore both the historic origins of this holiday and its colorful present-day celebrations ...
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Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society
By: Stanley J. Stein
Price: $6.98
Publisher: Princeton University Press: January 1986
Seller ID: 267162
ISBN: 0691022364
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.
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