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  • The New Route Through Chiriqui

    by Thomas Meagher ...
    The author makes a trek across Panama on a new Route from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Before the canal, there were hopes of a road to cut the trip around the Cape Horn. ... Read more

    $2.05 CAD

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  • 2012 and the End of the World

    The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse

    by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari ...
    Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon. They begin by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Paisanos

    The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face of Latin America

    by Tim Fanning ...
    The epic story of the forgotten Irish men and women who changed the face of Latin America forever.In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cortés and Montezuma

    by Maurice Collis ...
    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Return of the Native

    Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

    by Rebecca A. Earle ...
    Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Pirate Stories

    by Various ...
    Out of the past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This ultimate status, despite heinous crimes, cannot altogether be denied to the pirate.This collection of classic pirates stories includes those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other legendary scribes. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Illustrated

    by A Guernsey ...
    The story of the Spanish discovery of the Pacific by Balboa, and his conquest of the Indians along the way. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier

    by Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Helen Lane ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. He was exiled to Spain--only to escape and spend ten years traveling throughout Europe, as none other than a French priest. So began the grand adventure of Fray Servando's life, and of this gripping memoir. Here is an invitation hard for any reader to resist: a glimpse of ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Translated Christianities

    Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts

    by Mark Z. Christensen ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers with English translations of a variety of Nahuatl and Maya religious texts. It pulls Nahuatl and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Enigma of Central America: Drug Highway of the Americas

    by Frank C. Newby ...
    The story of Central America is one of plunder and pillage by the nations of the world: The gunboat diplomacy of the United States; the influence of the CIA; the greed of giant international corporations; the tragedy of slavery and conquest.This part of the world has never known stability or peace. The Catholic Church and the melting pot of black, white, Spanish and Indian created strange creeds ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • State Violence and Genocide in Latin America

    The Cold War Years

    Edited by Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, Daniel Feierstein ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
    This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States’ hegemonic position on the continent.Using case studies based on the regimes of Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay, this book shows how U.S foreign policy – far from promoting long term political stability and democratic institutions – has ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD