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1	Modern Latin America more books like this by Professor Thomas E Skidmore, Peter H Smith add to wishlist This interpretive history of Latin America has been brought up to date in all areas, including the ongoing war against international drug trafficking, the difficulties and promises of NAFTA, the increasing trend toward democratic and pluralist politics, and the large-scale immigration of Latin Americans into the United States. As in earlier ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America more books like this by John Charles Chasteen add to wishlist Capturing readers in a story exposing the complexities of a diverse region peopled by characters such as Cortes, Eva, and Juan Peron, Sister Inor Suarez and Che Guevara, John Chasteen focuses on the major events of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Working within a chronological framework, this text incorporatres the histories of individual countries ... see all copies from $6.41! new only from $31.89! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya more books like this by Linda Schele, David Freidel add to wishlist The mystique of the pre-Columbian Maya has prompted much speculation about the nature of this sophisticated people. With the breaking of their elaborate hieroglyphic code, Schele and Freidel, Mayan scholars of note, provide a new look at the Maya. Structured on sound scholarly principles, their presentation abounds in notes, references, indexes, ... see all copies from $3.12! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Colonial Latin America more books like this by Mark A Burkholder, Lyman Johnson add to wishlist Burkholder and Johnson's interpretive survey of colonial Latin America up to the 1850s is both historiographically up-to-date and accessible to students in the first half of the undergraduate Latin American history survey, which is given by virtually all major American colleges. The text incorporates new research in social and economic theory ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| first editions
5	A History of Latin America more books like this by Benjamin Keen add to wishlist This best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A History of Latin America, encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.56!
6	Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest more books like this by Matthew Restall add to wishlist 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, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian ... see all copies from $8.64! new only from $11.92! \| SVS
7	The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World more books like this by Carlos Fuentes add to wishlist In this sweeping, vividly written, and profusely illustrated work, Fuentes surveys the vast, complex 500-year history of the Spanish in the Americas and sees both the richness of the culture that has evolved and the troubling vestiges of colonialism. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $12.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies more books like this by Bartolome De Las Casas, Bartolome De Las Casas, Bartolome de Las Casas add to wishlist Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus' voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $6.50! \| SVS
9	Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism more books like this by Greg Grandin add to wishlist An eye-opening examination of Latin America's role as proving ground for U.S. imperial strategies and tactics In recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy. In their search for precedents, they invoke the Roman and British empires as well as postwar reconstructions of ... see all copies from $3.56! new only from $3.75! \| SVS
10	Century of the Wind more books like this by Eduardo H Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (Translator) add to wishlist Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, the third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, CENTURY OF THE WIND serves up the turbulent 20th century's worth of U.S.-Latin American relations, from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA ... see all copies from $5.94! new only from $9.36! \| SVS
11 view cover	Latinoamerica: Su Civilizacion y Su Cultura more books like this by Eugenio Chang-Rodriguez add to wishlist Discover the richness and complexity of Latin American culture, with "LatinoAmerica". Featuring a thematic organization supported by comprehension questions, expansion questions, timelines, chapter summaries, photos, illustrations, Internet activities, video suggestions, and maps, the text takes you on a 20-chapter tour of the progression of Latin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.33! \| first editions
12 view cover	Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America more books like this by Tina Rosenberg add to wishlist Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America--drinking coffee with hit men and sunbathing with death-squad financiers--to understand people for whom violence is a way of life. Her six vivid and haunting portraits illuminate the human face of violence, not only in Latin America, but all over the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence more books like this by Victor Bulmer-Thomas add to wishlist The Economic History of Latin America seeks to explain why, despite the region's abundance of natural resources and a favourable ratio of land to labour, not a single republic of Latin America has achieved the status of a developed country after nearly two centuries free from colonial rule. Taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch ... see all copies from $12.90! new only from $31.17! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Guerrilla warfare more books like this by Ernesto Che Guevara add to wishlist Che Guevara, the larger-than-life hero of the 1959 revolutionary victory that overturned the Cuban dictatorship, believed that revolution would also topple the imperialist governments in Latin America. Che's call to action, his proclamation of invincibility-the ultimate victory of revolutionary forces-continues to influence the course of Latin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Inside the Company CIA Diary more books like this by Philip Agee add to wishlist see all copies from $2.02! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America more books like this by Kenneth J Andrien (Editor) add to wishlist The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of life stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portugese colonial regimes ... see all copies from $3.96! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond more books like this by Ed Morales add to wishlist For everyone who has fallen in love with Latin music, a guide to its many styles that also traces its place in American music and culture . The Latin explosion of Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, and the Buena Vista Social Club may look like it came out of nowhere, but the incredible variety of Latin music has been transforming the United States since ... see all copies from $3.10! new only from $3.10! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil more books like this by James Lockhart, Stuart B Schwartz (Photographer), Alan Knight (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately 1492-1825). It is both an introduction for the student at the college level and a provisionally updated synthesis of the quickly changing field for the more ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul more books like this by Michael Reid add to wishlist Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa's moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world's largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is busily transforming ... see all copies from $9.61! new only from $13.27! \| SVS
20 view cover	Latin America; a concise interpretive history more books like this by E. Bradford Burns add to wishlist For courses in Modern Latin America. This landmark volume of Latin American history weaves the history of an entire region into a coherent story that emphasizes both common themes and regional and national specificity. This unique narrative provides an interpretive history of Modern Latin America with a focus on the central dynamic of Latin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History more books like this by William B Taylor, Ph.D. (Editor), Sandra Lauderdale Graham (Editor), Kenneth Mills, MA, BSc, FRCS (Editor) add to wishlist Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History centers on people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text encourages detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of ... see all copies from $28.33! new only from $49.23!
22 view cover	Faces and masks more books like this by Eduardo Galeano add to wishlist Eduardo Galeano presents an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is a tangled, cataclysmic history of the hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of the present century, told through resonant and compelling characters. see all copies from $8.04! new only from $9.87! \| SVS
23 view cover	Latin America and Its People more books like this by Cheryl E Martin, Mark Wasserman add to wishlist Offering a balance of social, political, environmental, and cultural history, Latin America and Its People looks at the whole of Latin America in a thematic rather than country-by-country approach. This engaging textbook emphasizes the stories of the diverse people of Latin America, their everyday lives, and the issues that affected them. Written ... see all copies from $33.73! new only from $59.99! \| first editions
24 view cover	Latin America: An Interpretive History more books like this by Professor E Bradford Burns, Julie A Charlip add to wishlist For courses in Modern Latin America. Organized thematically, this text offers a clear narrative that weaves together the story of an entire region, with coverage of broad themes and regional diffences. Despite the great diversity within the Latin America, there is a common theme that characterizes the sweep of history in the region. The original ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $56.00! \| SVS
25 view cover	Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 more books like this by George Reid Andrews add to wishlist While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. In this, the first history of the African ... see all copies from $10.94! new only from $13.61! \| SVS

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