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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

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Company They Kept

    Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960

    by Lara Putnam ...
    In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Waiting Sky

    by Lara Zielin ...
    A young girl's world spins out of control when her mother's alcoholism pushes her to the edge in this poignant young adult story of family, forgiveness, and romance.Seventeen-year-old Jane McAllister, fleeing a troubled relationship with her alcoholic mom, spends a summer in the plains chasing—of all things—tornadoes. Somehow, the chaos of tornadoes seems a lot more manageable than her very messy ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

    Edited by Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lara Putnam ...
    This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven processes through which ideas of honor and status came to depend more on achievements such as ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Caribbean Military Encounters

    Edited by Shalini Puri, Lara Putnam ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending militarization per se, this book focuses attention on how ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Implosion of Aggie Winchester

    by Lara Zielin ...
    **In a small town filled with secrets, Aggie Winchester is a girl facing a myriad of challenges beyond typical teenage drama.“Proms and sparkly crowns are awesome, but finding out who you really are—with the help of friends and fam—is the best ‘last dance’ of all.”—Lauren Myracle, New York Times bestselling author of TTYL**Sixteen-year-old Aggie Winchester is that rare mix of Goth girl and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

    by Eduardo P. Archetti, Ann S. Blum, Alejandra Bronfman, Arlene J. Díaz, Lessie Jo Frazier, William E. French, James N. Green, Cymene Howe, David S. Parker0, Pablo Piccato1, Lara E. Putnam2, Wendy A. Vogt3, Erica M. Windler4 ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Luxe

    by Anna Godbersen ...
    Series Book 1 - Luxe
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  • The Vanishing Game

    by Kate Kae Myers ...
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  • Ignited

    by Corrine Jackson ...
    Series Book 3 - Sense Thieves
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