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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

Fuentes's bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the tumultuous events that have recently transformed Mexican politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of assassinations, the break between Presidents Salinas and Zedillo, the continual struggle for democratic self-rule: These and other developments are addressed by one of Mexico's wisest, most influential commentators.
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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.

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)

By: Klein, Herbert S.

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 1992

Seller ID: 288904

ISBN: 019505735X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Reflecting major changes in Bolivia since the publication of the first edition, this volume examines the recent collapse of the Bolivian economy, the rise of an illegal economy based on cocaine, and the growth in social and political power of the Mestizos (those of mixed Indian-white blood).
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Borderless Borders

By: Frank Bonilla

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Temple University Press: April 1998

Seller ID: 122679

ISBN: 1566396204

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Latinos in the United States have emerged as strategic actors in major processes of social transformation. This work describes the structural processes and interventions inside and outside US Latino communities. It includes a context-setting introduction, with a focus on four themes, including forms of global and transnational interdependence.
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Changing Course: Blueprint for Peace in Central America and the Caribbean

By: Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Inst for Policy Studies: March 1984

Seller ID: 59837

ISBN: 0897580370

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

some wear to cover...
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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

Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces

By: Zibechi, RaÃºl

Price: $9.98

Publisher: AK Press: July 2010

Seller ID: 270390

ISBN: 1849350116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society through anti-state movements?... the most important practical and theoretical questions that have risen from the struggles in Latin America and the world in the last fifteen years or so.... The book is beautiful, exciting, stimulating.... Do read it and also g...
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Duel of Eagles: The Mexican and U.S. Fight for the Alamo

By: Jeff Long

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: July 1990

Seller ID: 6613

ISBN: 0688072526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Memoirs of a Counter Revolutionary

By: Arturo Cruz Jr.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Doubleday: September 1989

Seller ID: 6222

ISBN: 0385248792

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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, ChloÃ« 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.