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  • Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement

    by Kenneth J. Mijeski, Scott H. Beck ...
    Series Book 36 - Research in International Studies, Latin America Series
    The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories in Latin American studies today. In this critical work, Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck examine the rise and decline of Ecuador’s leading indigenous party, Pachakutik, as it tried to transform the state into a participative democracy.Using in-depth interviews with political activists, as well as a powerful ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

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    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
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  • Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America

    by Michael Reid ...
    The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America—now fully revised and updated.Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's bestselling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid suggests that ... Read more

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  • Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    by John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in World History
    A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Intercultural Utopias

    Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia

    by Joanne Rappaport, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Although only 2 percent of Colombia’s population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country’s indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national territory belongs to indigenous groups, and 80 percent of the country’s mineral resources are located in native-owned lands. In this innovative ethnography, Joanne Rappaport draws on research she has ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane ...
    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

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  • Vestiges of the Mayas

    by Augustus Le Plongeon ...
    That the people who inhabited the country at the time of the Spanish conquest had a multiplicity of gods there can be no doubt. The primitive form of worship, with time and by the effect of invasions from outside, had disappeared, and been replaced by that of their great men and women, who were deified and had temples raised to their memory, as we see, for example, in the case of Moo, wife and ... Read more

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  • The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

    by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that ... Read more

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  • Writing in the Air

    Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

    by Antonio Cornejo Polar ...
    Translated by Lynda J. Jentsch ...
    Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or "mestizaje" dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of ... Read more

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    by Jim Morris ...
    Former Green Beret Jim Morris goes on a mission with the Colombian anti-narcotics police who ferret out the coca-growing revolutionaries known as FARC in the mountainous Colombian jungles. The anti-narcoterrorist force is known as the Junglas (pronounced Hoon-glas), and with top grade U.S. equipment and training, they are a formidable force indeed. You'll parallel the terrain in a Huey helicopter ... Read more

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  • Conflicts and Conspiracies

    Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he ... Read more

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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

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