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Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good life in the context of large-scale infrastructure proj……続きを見る

A New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks Named a Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune a……続きを見る

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary ……続きを見る

On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered tw……続きを見る

The story of MS-13 and its American roots One of President Donald Trump’s favorite rhetorical motifs is stoking fear that members of the MS-13 gang from El Salvador intend to cross the U.S. border i……続きを見る

Rudyard Kipling's 'The Irish Guards in the Great War' is a comprehensive look at the experiences of the Irish Guards during World War I. This complete edition, comprising of two volumes, provides a ……続きを見る

The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt him……続きを見る

Making sense of our universe...It's an age-old practice that transcends cultures and generations. From our vantage point, the larger than life Maya civilization grappled with the urge in a grand sca……続きを見る

Are you interested in Caribbean history? More specifically, in the Arawakan people? One of the indigenous tribes of the Caribbean, the Arawakans are a fascinating study in how culture and social ord……続きを見る

From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the……続きを見る

"A beautiful book featuring intimate portrayals of a diverse group of Guatemalan artists and their works . . . [a] compelling presentation style." ー Library Journal Against the backdrop of Guatemal……続きを見る

Over het slavernijverleden van Nederland wordt volop en breed discussie gevoerd. Aan meningen geen gebrek, en terecht, want dat de slavernij een zwarte bladzij in onze geschiedenis vormt, zal nieman……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." ーAnchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial’s ex……続きを見る

Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean’s depths, creating one of the world’s most productive marine ecosystems: the Humboldt Current. When th……続きを見る

A New York Times Notable Book of the year. Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty an……続きを見る

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas ー and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities wit……続きを見る

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “ma……続きを見る

The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the country to escape ……続きを見る

**This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grie……続きを見る

Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, an……続きを見る

In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Mench� published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography-I, Rigoberta Mench�-transformed the study an……続きを見る

Actualizada con un nuevo epílogo, reflexiones finales, fotos de Enrique y su familia, una entrevista con la autora y mucho más, esta es la versión definitiva de un clásico contemporáneo de los Estad……続きを見る

The story of the Spanish discovery of the Pacific by Balboa, and his conquest of the Indians along the way.続きを見る

Analyzes the German role in Central American domestic and international relations Using previously untapped resources including private collections, the records of cultural institutions, and federal……続きを見る

This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the co……続きを見る

Una claustrófobica y vertiginosa novela sobre la violencia y sus efectos dehumanizadores en quienes la ejercen, por vocación, convicción o puro azar. 続きを見る

The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy One of today's most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of g……続きを見る

In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Ho……続きを見る

The first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language, this exhaustive account draws from a wealth of untapped sources to tell the story of Nicaragua's continuing struggle for liberation ……続きを見る

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Mench�, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Mench� suffered gross in……続きを見る