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  • The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet

    An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

    by Anthony Knivet ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This is the first critical edition of the original 1625 travel account by Anthony Knivet, an Englishman who spent nine years in Brazil in the last decade of the sixteenth century. His is the oldest extensive account of Brazil written by an Englishman, but despite its historical, geographical, and ethnographic relevance it has never merited an annotated (or even a separate) edition in English. This ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has ... Read more

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  • Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with ... Read more

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  • The Expediency of Culture

    Uses of Culture in the Global Era

    by George Yúdice, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a ... Read more

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  • Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas

    Edited by Lawrence A. Clayton ...
    This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Indians, and the single most important figure of the period after Columbus.Explores the period known as the Encounter, which was characterized by intensive conflict between Europeans and the people of the ... Read more

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  • Republics of the New World

    The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

    by Hilda Sabato ...
    A sweeping history ofLatin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, they embarked on a political experiment of an unprecedented scale outside the newly formed United States. ... Read more

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  • Chinese Cubans

    A Transnational History

    by Kathleen M. López ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous “coolie” trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish ... Read more

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  • Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

    by Andrés Bello, Frances López-Morillas ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's ... Read more

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  • The Banana Wars

    United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934

    by Lester D. Langley ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction, placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Cuba

    by Arthur D. Hall ...
    Such was Columbus' opinion of Cuba, just after he first beheld it, and, after the lapse of four hundred years, the words, making due allowance for the hyperbole of enthusiasm, still hold good. And this, too, in spite of all the trials and tribulations which the fair "Pearl of the Antilles" has been forced to undergo at the hands of her greedy and inhuman masters. ... Read more

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  • Visible Empire

    Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

    by Daniela Bleichmar ...
    Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American ... Read more

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  • Radical Moves

    Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

    by Lara Putnam ...
    In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack ... Read more

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