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  • The Southern Tiger

    Chile's Fight for a Peaceful and Democratic Future

    Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing the dictator, the first of its kind. Revolution soon followed, as Chileans took to the streets to ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    “Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library JournalMichael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz.The seventh edition incorporates new ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Exorcising Terror

    The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet

    par Ariel Dorfman ...
    Collections series Open Media Series
    Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as a suspense thriller, filled with court-room drama and sudden reversals of fortune, the book at the ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD

  • Upriver

    The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People

    In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms.When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about ... En savoir plus

    $46.19 CAD

  • Patients of the State

    The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

    par Javier Auyero ...
    Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Stringing Together a Nation

    Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930

    par Todd A. Diacon ...
    Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865–1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military engineer, led what became known as the Rondon Commission in a massive undertaking: the building of ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Burning Season

    The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest

    par Andrew Revkin ...
    "In the rain forests of the western Amazon," writes author Andrew Revkin, "the threat of violent death hangs in the air like mist after a tropical rain. It is simply a part of the ecosystem, just like the scorpions and snakes cached in the leafy canopy that floats over the forest floor like a seamless green circus tent."Violent death came to Chico Mendes in the Amazon rain forest on December 22, ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Embodying the Sacred

    Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

    In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred, Nancy E. van Deusen considers how women created and navigated a spiritual existence within the ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Creating Our Own

    Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru

    In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the “folkloric arts”—particularly music, dance, and drama—in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role that these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza argues that the folkloric productions emerging in Cuzco in the early twentieth century were integral to, ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Blackness in the White Nation

    A History of Afro-Uruguay

    Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country. Afro-Uruguayans played important roles in Uruguay’s national life, creating the second-largest black press in Latin America, a racially defined political party, and numerous social and civic organizations.Afro-Uruguayans ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Revolt of the Saints

    Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy

    par John F. Collins ...
    In 1985 the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the next decades, over 4,000 residents who failed to meet the state's definition of "proper Afro-Brazilianness" were expelled to make way for hotels, boutiques, NGOs, and other attractions. In Revolt of the Saints, John F. Collins explores the contested removal of the inhabitants of Brazil ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru

    par Moisés Arce ...
    Collections Livre 349 - Pitt Latin American Series
    Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Despite its residents reporting the third-highest level of protest participation in the region, Peru has been largely ignored in these discussions ... En savoir plus

    $56.79 CAD