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Havana Nocturne

by T. J. English

To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob—with the corrupt,...


At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel

by William C. Rempel

In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary...


The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History

by V.S. Naipaul

The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V....


The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times

by Anthony DePalma

This dramatic story of how a New York Times reporter helped Castro come to power offers illuminating insight into the fraught history of Cuban-American relations and the precarious balance between truth and...


Everything You Need to Know About Latino History

by Himilce Novas

The popular primer to Latino life and culture-updated for 2008

Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this...


Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism

by Domingo Sarmiento & Ilan Stavans

Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the...


Until Death Do Us Part

by Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's...


Guerrilla Warfare: Authorized Edition

by Ernesto Che Guevara & Harry "Pombo" Villegas

A new, authorized and revised edition of a classic 1960s text on revolution by Che Guevara.


The Story of Spanish

by Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow

Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world’s second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial...


The Campaign

by Carlos Fuentes

In this witty and enthralling saga of revolutionary South America, Carlos Fuentes explores the period of profound upheaval he calls" the romantic time." His hero, Baltasar Bustos, the son of a wealthy landowner,...


Fidel Castro Reader

by Fidel Castro & David Deutschmann

The powerful voice of the most outspoken political figure of our time.


The History of the Conquest of Peru: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William H. Prescott

Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescott's masterly History of the Conquest of Mexico, continues his vivid chronicle of Spanish exploits in the...


Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910

by Servando Ortoll & Silvia M. Arrom

The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era. The actual...


Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

by Rory Carroll

In the aftermath of Hugo Chávez's death, the inside story of his life, his Venezuela, and his legacy.

Hugo Chávez was a phenomenon. He has been compared to Napoléon, Nasser, Perón, and Castro, but the truth...


Che Guevara: A Biography

by Daniel James & Henry Butterfield Ryan

James provides an in-depth look at the Latin American revolutionary's formative years, and proceeds to examine Guevara's successes and failures in his international battles, to his desperate hours as a dying...


Oscar Lopez Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance

by Osacar Lopez Rivera, Luis Nieves Falcon & Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The life story of Puerto Rican freedom fighter and leader Oscar López Rivera, outlined in this book, is one of courage, valor, and sacrifice. In 1981, Oscar was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other...


The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post Bestseller

 

In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett...


The Mexican Agrarian Revolution

by Frank Tannenbaum

Frank Tannenbaum documented the ownership and control of land in Mexico, before the 1910 revolution and immediately after. Contains appendices with land statistics and legislation. This digital edition was derived...


Academic Culture in the Spanish Colonies

by John Tate Lanning

Essays on the history and administration of colonial universities in South America and the Indies. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version...


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...