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The Life of Miranda, Volume II

by William Spence Robertson

The second of a two-volume biography of Francisco de Miranda, the South American general and diplomat. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version...


The Life of Miranda, Volume I

by William Spence Robertson

The first of a two-volume biography of Francisco de Miranda, the South American general and diplomat. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version...


The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment in the University of San Carlos de Guatemala

by John Tate Lanning

A look at the Enlightenment in Hispanic America, with the University of San Carlos as a case study. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version...


Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture

by Natalia Milanesio

Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the methodologies of social, cultural, and oral histories, Milanesio shows the exceptional cultural and social...


A MIRACLE, A UNIVERSE: SETTLIN

by Lawrence Weschler

In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the...


Qualitative Methods in Military Studies: Research Experiences and Challenges

by Helena Carreiras & Celso Castro

This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies.

Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact....


Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History

by Jeremy Adelman

More than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding historical legacies--the making of slavery, patrimonial absolutist states, backward...


Latin America: Development and Conflict since 1945

by John Ward

In Latin America John Ward provides an interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary Latin America in the last half century. Beginning with a brief history of Latin America since 1492, and taking debates over...


Finding Cholita

by Billie Jean Isbell

Finding Cholita is a fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long history of...


Last Dance in Havana

by Eugene Robinson

In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people....


The Indian in Latin American History: Resistance, Resilience, and Acculturation

by John E. Kicza

Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American Indians have displayed remarkable resilience. They have resisted cultural hegemony with...


The Southern Tiger

by Elizabeth Dickinson, Ricardo Lagos, Blake Hounshell & Bill Clinton

Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty...


Evo Morales

by Martín Sivak

The fascinating Bolivian president Evo Morales is vying with the brash and provocative leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to be the most influential figure in South American politics today. Since coming into...


My Life with Che

by Hilda Gadea

Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the legendary figure, revealing his lesser known side as a romantic wanderer, a philosopher and doting suitor and father. Ernesto Guevara...


Fordlandia

by Greg Grandin

The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon

In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size...


Empire's Workshop

by Greg Grandin

An eye-opening examination of Latin America's role as proving ground for U.S. imperial strategies and tactics

In recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush administration's...


A History of Mining in Latin America: From the Colonial Era to the Present

by Kendall Brown

Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to...


Negotiation Within Domination

by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano & Susan Kellog

Negotiation within Domination examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous peoples and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity...


An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru

by Ralph Bauer

Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui - the penultimate ruler...


Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City

by Agustin Laó-Montes & Arlene Dávila

New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the topic in all its multifaceted aspects, from Jim Crow baseball in the first half of the twentieth century to hip hop and...