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The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)

By: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Arte Publico Press: April 2001

Seller ID: 256363

ISBN: 1558850600

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Cultural Writing. A new and improved translation of the Spanish explorer's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States. De Vaca's journey (1528 - 1536) of hardship and misfortune is one of the most remarkable in the history of the New World and contains many first descriptions of the land and their inhabitants. THE ACCOUNT is of estimable value for students of history an literature, ethnographers, anthropologists, and the general reader. It is the second literary text to be issued by a national project to reconstruct the literary history of Hispanics of the...
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The Penguin History of Latin America

By: Edwin Williamson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1993

Seller ID: 310890

ISBN: 0140125590

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival

By: Farriss, Nancy Marguerite

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: June 1984

Seller ID: 345497

ISBN: 0691101582

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Tarahumara: Where Night Is the Day of the Moon

By: Fontana, Bernard L.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Northland Pub: June 1979

Seller ID: 345493

ISBN: 0873584430

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Latin America

By: Gill Davies

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Parragon Books: June 2010

Seller ID: 175367

ISBN: 1407547380

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Letters from Mexico (An Orion Press Book)

By: Hernan Cortes

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Grossman Publishers: January 1971

Seller ID: 333311

ISBN: B000J3IRQ2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico

By: Hugh Thomas

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 1994

Seller ID: 333603

ISBN: 0671705180

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations (Latin American Silhouettes)

By: James A Wood

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: February 2009

Seller ID: 272398

ISBN: 074255645X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in its third edition, this leading reader has been updated to make it even more relevant to the study of contemporary Latin America. This edition includes an entirely new chapter, "The New Left Turn," and the globalization chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect the rapid pace of change over the past five years. The book continues to offer a rich variety of materials that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors. The reader's unique and successful chapter organization provides a thematic complement to narrative accounts of modern Latin American history. By focusing eac...
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Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices

By: John Charles Chasteen

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2011

Seller ID: 315873

ISBN: 0393935582

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices includes colorful and engaging narrative accounts taken from novels, journals, essays, newspaper articles, and other documentary sources, many appearing in English for the first time and many translated by John Chasteen. Selections mirror the chronological and geographical coverage of Born in Blood and Fire.
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Treasures of the Spanish Main : Spanish Galleons in the New World

By: JOHN CHRISTOPHER FINE

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr: June 2006

Seller ID: 146159

ISBN: 1592287603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure," Fine writes. In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain dominated the oceans with its fleet of galleons. Coming to the New World, these ships filled their holds with gold and silver and treasures beyond imagining. The seaway between Spain and the New World was dubbed The Golden Highway. On their journeys back across the seas, many were wrecked on reefs or destroyed by hurricanes. The watery depths now hold their treasures. Today, treasure divers seek their fortunes by attempting--sometimes successfully, sometimes fatally--to retrieve these hordes of ri...
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

By: Miguel Leon-Portilla

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Beacon Press: November 2006

Seller ID: 323076

ISBN: 080705500X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel Leon-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic "The Broken Spears," Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. Leon-Portilla's new Postscript r...
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A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America

By: Oscar Martinez

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Verso: April 2017

Seller ID: 319595

ISBN: 1784781711

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States, and the World

By: Peter H. Smith

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: December 2007

Seller ID: 315883

ISBN: 0195320484

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a new international regime emerged and profoundly transformed inter-American affairs. In the third edition of Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States, and the World, Peter H. Smith places this devastating event into its full historical context by offering a vivid portrayal of U.S.-Latin American relations from the early nineteenth century to the present. A new section, "The War on Terror," examines the impact of 9/11 on the United States and Latin America, with a focus on George W. Bush's Latin American policy. Smith also analyze...
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Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean, 3rd Edition

By: Peter Winn

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of California Press: January 2006

Seller ID: 230549

ISBN: 0520245016

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Stunning in its sweep, "Americas "is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, and from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, "Americas "examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. For this new edition Peter Winn has provided a new preface and made revisions throughout to include the most up-to-date information on changes and developments in Latin America since the last revised edition of 1999.
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

By: Pierre Clastres

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Zone Books: December 2000

Seller ID: 297047

ISBN: 0942299787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Pierre Clastres (1934-1979) was one of the most respected political anthropologists of our time. Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of his first fieldwork in the early 1960s--an encounter with a small, unique, and now vanished Paraguayan tribe. From "Birth" to "The End," Clastres follows the Guayakis in their everyday lives, determined to record every detail of their history, ritual, myths, and culture in order to answer the many questions prompted by his personal experiences. Now available for the first time in English in a beautiful translation by the novelist Paul Auster, Chr...
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Survivors in Mexico

By: Rebecca West, Bernard Schweizer

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: April 2003

Seller ID: 158973

ISBN: 0300098863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The publication of Rebecca West's Survivors in Mexico marks an important literary event: the rescue from oblivion of a daring and provocative work by a major twentieth-century writer. This book is West's exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, and culture--a work the author clearly conceived as a companion and sequel to her masterpiece about the Balkans, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). Although West never brought Survivors to completion, she left behind a series of extensive drafts and revisions that Bernard Schweizer has meticulously assembled and edited. The result is a wel...
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Celebrate Native America!: An Aztec Book of Days

By: Richard Balthazar

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Five Flower Pr: July 1993

Seller ID: 307329

ISBN: 096326611X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)

By: Robert M. Levine, JOhn J. Crocitti

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Duke University Press: August 1999

Seller ID: 302019

ISBN: 0822322900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and culturally from Spanish America. Its indigenous peoples share the country with descendants of Portuguese conquerors and the Africans they imported to work as slaves, along with more recent immigrants from southern Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Capturing the scope of this country's rich diversity and distinction as no other book has done--with more than a hundred entries from a wealth of perspectives--"The Brazil Reader" offers a fa...
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The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857

By: Silvia Marina Arrom

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Stanford University Press: October 1992

Seller ID: 290107

ISBN: 0804720959

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (Series on Latin American Studies)

By: Stephen Schlesinger,Stephen Kinzer,John H. Coatsworth

Price: $7.95

Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies: December 2005

Seller ID: 306559

ISBN: 067401930x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Bitter Fruit" is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
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Category: Latin America