著者:John W. Dean
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年09月11日
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
著者:Margaret E. Ward
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2011年11月01日
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
Together with his brother Humberto, Daniel Ortega Saavedra masterminded the only victorious Latin American revolution since Fidel Castro's in Cuba. Following the triumphant 1979 Nicaraguan revolutio……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
During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla organization that challenged the gover……続きを見る
The post-Cold War era has witnessed a resurgence of conflictive ethnic and secessionist politics that has placed the taken-for-granted primacy of unitary, sovereign nation-states into question. Alon……続きを見る
The Satyricon Of Petronius
Translated and Introduced by Alfred R. Allinson
A satirical trip through the underbelly of Neros' Rome, with many details of the classical pagan religious treatment of sex……続きを見る
著者:Luis Urrea
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年12月01日
Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the borderーa world that is only some twenty mil……続きを見る
著者:Phillip Berryman
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年02月20日
Since 1979, United States policy in Central America has been based on an assumption that revolutionary movements led by Marxists must represent a serious threat to U.S. interests and security. On th……続きを見る
著者:Jerry Johnson
出版社: Tru Divine Publishing
発売日: 2013年05月12日
In this compelling block-buster guide discover hard-hitting facts about American History, The 22nd Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Boston Tea Party, The Civil War, The Cold War, The Declaration ……続きを見る
This is the definitive, illustrated guide to Chocolate. Beginning 3,000 years ago in the Mexican jungles, it goes on to investigate archaeology, history, botany and socio-economics, and follows the ……続きを見る
Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged……続きを見る
著者:Sonia Nazario
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年01月02日
An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an a……続きを見る
Visit Belize,Land of the Maya.A personal account of one's journey back in time to a land of mystery.The search for the site where the famous Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull was discovered led to a jou……続きを見る
The story of Central America is one of plunder and pillage by the nations of the world: The gunboat diplomacy of the United States; the influence of the CIA; the greed of giant international corpora……続きを見る
著者:A H Guernsey
出版社: Folly Cove 01930
発売日: 2013年02月01日
This is a brief account of the adventures of Sieur Revanau De Lussan on the Isthmus of Panama during the mid 17th century when he fought the Spanish for their New World Treasures.続きを見る
著者:Elizabeth Dore
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2006年01月25日
In Myths of Modernity, Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua’s transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country’s capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that exte……続きを見る
1987 - An old woman finds a baby girl abandoned by the road in El Salvador. In the USA, Diane Remer-Thamert mourns the loss of a stillborn girl. Civil war is raging in El Salvador. Diane’s husband G……続きを見る
In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early……続きを見る
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destin……続きを見る
著者:John Soluri
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2013年04月12日
Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing storesーeverything from……続きを見る
著者:Gerald Martin
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年05月05日
In this exhaustive and enlightening biographyーnearly two decades in the makingーGerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel……続きを見る
著者:Matthew Parker
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年03月10日
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience……続きを見る
In the 1960s and 1970s, El Salvador's reigning military regime instituted a series of reforms that sought to modernize the country and undermine ideological radicalism, the most ambitious of which w……続きを見る
Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence……続きを見る
“A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaraguaーor in the overall issue of social change.”ーMargaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED
Sandinista is the first……続きを見る
A brief look at the gold industry in Central America in the mid nineteenth century, featuring the works in Nicaragua and Honduras. Digitally restored Illustrations.続きを見る
From theesteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarde……続きを見る
Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devast……続きを見る
Also titled "The Buccaneers of America", this thrilling text is the best genuinely first-hand account of piracy to exist.
Alexandre Exquemelin was on board the flagship of Henry Morgan, one of the m……続きを見る