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  • Disarming Apartheid

    The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991

    by Robin E. Möser ...
    South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the programme. Disarming Apartheid reconstructs the South African decision-making and diplomatic negotiations over the country's nuclear weapons programme and its international status, drawing on new and extensive archival material and interviews. This ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Chronicle of the Murdered House

    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    by Lúcio Cardoso ...
    This never-before-translated classic of Brazilian, and gay, literature is a Faulknerian saga depicting the unraveling of a traditional patriarchal family. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Damn Close-Run Thing: A Brief History of the Falklands War

    by Russell Phillips ...
    In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.They were wrong.Britain ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Accidental President of Brazil

    A Memoir

    by Fernando Henrique Cardoso ...
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Book of Emma Reyes

    A Memoir

    by Emma Reyes ...
    Translated by Daniel Alarcón ...
    **“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York TimesA literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood**This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • 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

    $13.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rio de Janeiro Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, Paulo Knauss de Mendonça ...
    Series series The Latin America Readers
    Spanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made the city's history. It outlines Rio's transformation from a hardscrabble colonial outpost and strategic port into an economic, cultural, and entertainment capital of the modern world. The volume ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable

    Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010

    by Francis Peddie, Royden Loewen ...
    Series Book 10 - Studies in Immigration and Culture
    Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions.In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cleansing Honor with Blood

    Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845–1889

    by Martha Santos ...
    This book offers a critical reinterpretation of male violence, patriarchy, and machismo in rural Latin America. It focuses on the lives of lower-class men and women, known as sertanejo/as, in the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceará between 1845 and 1889. Challenging the widely accepted depiction of sertanejos as conditioned to violence by nature, culture, and climate, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Revolution!

    South America and the Rise of the New Left

    by Nikolas Kozloff ...
    In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and Michelle Bachelet, the first woman president in Chile, the faces of South American politics are changing rapidly and radically.In this timely and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In Search of the Amazon

    Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region

    by Seth Garfield, PhD ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Contemporary Carioca

    Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene

    by Frederick Moehn ...
    Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have ... Read more

    $25.19 USD