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  • Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala

    par Robinson A. Herrera ...
    The first century of Spanish colonization in Latin America witnessed the birth of cities that, while secondary to great metropolitan centers such as Mexico City and Lima, became important hubs for regional commerce. Santiago de Guatemala, the colonial capital of Central America, was one of these. A multiethnic and multicultural city from its beginning, Santiago grew into a vigorous trading center ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    par Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Modifié par Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    par John Charles Chasteen ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Latino History And Culture

    par D.H. Figueredo ...
    You’re no idiot, of course. You know there are more people from Latin America living in the United States than ever before. And you’re aware that Latinos come from several countries, including Cuba, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.But you don’t have to south of the border to explore the rich Latino heritage. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Latino History and Culture offers an exhaustive ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Boys from Dolores

    Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

    par Patrick Symmes ...
    Collections series Vintage Departures
    From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership. Instead, they were swept into war, revolution, and exile by two of their own number, Fidel and ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $8.99 CAD Maintenant $5.99 CAD

  • Castro

    A Graphic Novel

    par Reinhard Kleist ...
    As America moves closer to normalizing relations with Cuba, this gripping, vivid graphic novel reveals life and times of Fidel Castro, one of the twentieth century's most intriguing, charismatic, and divisive figures. The book is narrated by a German journalist named Karl Mertens, who is plunged into the searing heat of pre-revolutionary Cuba in the mid-1950s. He first meets with Castro while the ... En savoir plus

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  • Do the Poor Count?

    Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty

    par Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson ...
    Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960

    par Thomas Rath ...
    At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico’s large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Extractive Zone

    Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

    par Macarena Gómez-Barris ...
    Collections series Dissident Acts
    In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Redemptive Work

    Railway and Nation in Ecuador, 1895-1930

    par Kim A. Clark ...
    Collections series Latin American Silhouettes
    A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book! Professor Kim Clark explores a time period and country for which little has been published in English. By studying the dimensions of politics and culture as one, Professor Clark argues that the local railroad case served as a demonstration of some of the problems that were most important during the liberal period. At the turn of the century, diverse political, ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD