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  • Adiós Niño

    The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death

    by Deborah T. Levenson ...
    In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Trade Unionists Against Terror

    Guatemala City, 1954-1985

    by Deborah Levenson-Estrada ...
    Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In Trade Unionists against Terror, she explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms of violent opposition from the state. Levenson-Estrada focuses especially on the case of 400 workers ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Guatemala Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, Elizabeth Oglesby ...
    Series series The Latin America readers
    This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala as a real place where ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Securing the City

    Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala

    by Thomas Offit, Deborah Levenson ...
    Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment is now strikingly evident in the practices and politics of security. Postwar violence has not ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

    Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930

    by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women’s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers. Challenging earlier interpretations of women’s ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • 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

    $28.79 USD

  • Our Elders Teach Us

    Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

    by Allan Burns, David Carey Jr. ...
    Series series Contemporary American Indian Studies
    Where Maya voices reclaim their history and reshape our understanding of the past.Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research to construct a history of the last 130 years in Guatemala from the perspective of present-day Mayan people. His research took place over five years, including intensive language study, four ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Man Who Loved Dogs

    A Novel

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    "In this ambitious, at times gripping work of historical fiction, Padura re-creates the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico." ― Foreign AffairsIn The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.The story revolves around Iván ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Havana Blue

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    The previous two Padura novels, Havana Red and Havana Black were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 15,000. Padura’s masterful prose and eye for detail evoke the Havana that millions of tourists have come to know: crumbling architecture, peeling paintwork and a pulsating, searing sensuality beneath the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Path Between the Seas

    The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

    by David McCullough ...
    The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough.A national bestseller and testament to human determination, The Path Between the Seas tells the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Havana Black

    A Lieutenant Mario Conde Mystery

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    The first book in this series, Havana Red, is the best selling Bitter Lemon title. Prize winning novel. Beautiful, sexy rendition of life in Cuba in mystery format. But also a deep, cutting, yet uncensored critique of the Cuban regime from within. Padura has elected to stay, remains in love with his country yet is open eyed about the failings of the government. A unique perspective. Sold 80,000 in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Conquest of New Spain

    by Bernal Diaz del Castillo ...
    Translated by John Cohen ...
    Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD