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Written specifically for students unfamiliar with Latin American history, this comprehensive narrative introduction spans from the early nineteenth ... More

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In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid ... More

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This collection of essays--the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production--explores the role ... More

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In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom ... More

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A comprehensive study of insurrection in Bolivia, from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

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Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved ... More

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Comprehensive overview of modern Colombian history considers why Colombia's long-established, stable political institutions have not been able to ... More

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A comprehensive study of insurrection in Bolivia, from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

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Is Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chavez truly revolutionary? Some see the president as a shining knight of socialism, while others see ... More

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The twentieth-century art of Latin America is art in the western tradition, and its leading figures--Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, ... More

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A fascinating group of previously unpublished texts by the Latin American artist Gego, focusing on her exploration of line, aesthetics, and the role ... More

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In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on ... More

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A fascinating study of five twentieth-century Latin American novels that focus on one particular search for El Dorado: the infamous 1559 expedition, ... More

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Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a ... More

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Indigenism is not folk art. It is a vanguard movement conceived of by intellectuals and artists conversant in international modernist idioms and ... More

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This is the first comprehensive survey of an important and increasingly popular field. Because each of the contributors is an expert on his or her ... More

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The first to present a genuinely Latin American viewpoint, this book is also the first comprehensive survey of an important and increasingly popular ... More

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The art scene in Cuba is thriving as never before. Young, politically active artists are stretching the limits of creative freedom and, as tourism to ... More

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The gay cultures of Latin America expressed themselves in a variety of ways artistically, from the early 19th century to the present. "Images of ... More

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Cuba's best-known contemporary painter, Flavio Garciandia, played an important role in the rebirth of artistic expression in Cuba and the founding of ... More

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In 1982, Didion traveled to El Salvador at the height of the ghastly civil war. From battlefields to body dumps, she trained a merciless eye not only ... More

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