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This is first book in English dealing with the history of the Socialist Internationalーthe international alliance of social democratic partiesーduring the presidency of former German Chancellor Will……続きを見る

Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hop……続きを見る

The modern political tumult of Nicaragua includes revolution, dictatorship, and social movements. LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua explores the untold stories of the LGBTQ community of Nicaragua and its ……続きを見る

A BOLD PEOPLE – A DIFFERENT KIND OF STRENGTH With a twist or two, this original first-hand account documents an extreme moment in time. Heartbreaking, sometimes even funny, it will broaden even the ……続きを見る

En 1906, a penas tres años después de la independencia de Panamá de Colombia, nació Teófilo de Jesús Alvarado Segovia. Su larga vida refleja una trayectoria paralela con la historia del país: Los Es……続きを見る

This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectoriesーgeographic, temporal, storiedーof sev……続きを見る

A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it’s like to live in a datafied world. We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities ……続きを見る

Honduras cierra sus fronteras a los salvadoreños por 12 años, como resultado de la llamada Guerra del fútbol, la cual surge por la disputa en la participación del Mundial de fútbol de 1970 en México……続きを見る

An anthropologist uncovers how "great coffee" depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers. What justifies the steep prices com……続きを見る

In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentiet……続きを見る

In this article from the October 10, 1923, issue of "The Outlook," magazine, Joseph B. Strauss discusses the state of agricultural production in El Salvador and other countries of Central America, t……続きを見る

"Fascism" is a word ubiquitous in our contemporary political discourse, but few know about its roots in the ancient past or its long, strange evolution to the present. In ancient Rome, the fasces we……続きを見る

The concept of a group of idealistic Americans going to the jungles of Central or South America to form a utopian community, did not originate in the 20th Century. All but forgotten to history, in 1……続きを見る

Díganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraíso recoge las memorias de una joven salvadoreña de espíritu curioso y rebelde, que la lleva a recorrer el mundo. Al regresar a su patria, se inserta en las lu……続きを見る

The year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary year of Roberto Clemente's final year in major-league baseball. "¡Arriba!": The Heroic Life of Roberto Clemente celebrates his life and his baseball career. ……続きを見る

This book explores a seminal topic concerning the Mesoamerican past: the religious festivals that took place during the eighteen periods of twenty days, or veintenas, into which the solar year was d……続きを見る

Many formerly classified CIA documents show very that communism is radically humanistic. There is blatant acknowledgement of quite dramatic improvements to the quality of life and standard of living……続きを見る

**“A dazzlingly fresh take on universal themes.… [B]ursting with practical wisdom.” ーSkye C. Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic A philosophy grounded not in a transcendent divinity, afterlife, o……続きを見る

"Wright said that with Columbus, Balboa, Cortez, Narvaez and their colleagues there were negro associates in the hazardous and perilous work of discovery and settlement." -Evening Star (Washington, ……続きを見る

"Jones's proposition is...the Indians...have their origins from Tyrians...Northern Indians...are descendants of exiled Hebrews." -Morning Post (London), July 20, 1843 "Jones argued that the Tyrians,……続きを見る

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN during El S……続きを見る

La Guerra Chichimeca fue un conflicto que a lo largo del siglo XVI puso a prueba la capacidad del Imperio Español para expandir sus fronteras en las latitudes del Nuevo Mundo. Librada en el territor……続きを見る

Embargo como le llama el gobierno de Estados Unidos o Bloqueo como lo conocen todos los cubanos, lo cierto es que el pueblo de Cuba ha vivido, durante más de medio siglo, bajo el signo del bloqueo e……続きを見る

When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after t……続きを見る

You can pretty much say that art and religion were intertwined for the Olmecs. They create powerful works of art to associate with their many gods. In this book, you will read about some of these ar……続きを見る

The Olmec civilization was so powerful that it is known as the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica. Olmecs were forward thinking people. They created traditions that influenced succeeding cultures. They……続きを見る

This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second on……続きを見る

Gracias a su obra magna Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España, Bernal Díaz del Castillo ha pasado como uno de los exploradores y conquistadores españoles de América más importantes q……続きを見る

This book is a collective work published as part of a larger project titled "Mexico-Guatemala cross-border region; regional dimensions and bases for integrated development," the purpose of which is ……続きを見る

La pluma profesional del Ing. Sarasqueta describe con precisión matemática los hechos y los que hoy podemos comentar desde lejos, echamos mucho de menos que la tecnología de hoy, no estuviera en la ……続きを見る