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A bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power, overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Robert J. Sierakowsk……続きを見る

The American Latino: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Culture and Mental Health Issues focuses on the culture of the Hispanic population in the United States and replaces stereotypes with portrayals ba……続きを見る

Today, Peru is recognized as one of the top food destinations on the planet. But twenty-five years ago, the world’s foodies focused their attention elsewhereーexcept for wine merchant–turned–archaeo……続きを見る

A comprehensive, timely and entertaining account of the political, cultural and economic dynamics of more than 30 discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, provid……続きを見る

Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions provide insight into the nature of the Maya in the colonial period. This book presents five case studies - four in Guatemala and one in Yucatan, Mexic……続きを見る

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams sh……続きを見る

On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, blac……続きを見る

Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America presents a nuanced and evidence-based discussion of both the acceptance and co-optation of the transitional justice framework and……続きを見る

This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study o……続きを見る

Quase duas décadas depois, a onda de governos progressistas na América Latina está sendo revertida. Já vai longe na memória o tempo em que as cúpulas de chefes de Estado da região se transformavam e……続きを見る

The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratizat……続きを見る

Esta obra inicia la COLECCIÓN GRAN CARIBE, proyecto editorial que se propone difundir diversos aspectos de la realidad histórica, económica, social, política y cultural de los países que integran la……続きを見る

Nel giro di pochi minuti, i telefoni di tutte le agenzie stampa del mondo cominciarono a squillare: il famoso pilota di Formula 1 Manuel Fangio era stato rapito da un commando rivoluzionario del Mov……続きを見る

In the 1930s, Companía Bananera, the Banana Company and a pre-cursor to Chiquita, was preparing a plot of land for new cultivation in the Diquis Region of southern Costa Rica when they unearthed a s……続きを見る

Seventeenth-century England saw the Puritan upheaval of the 1640s and 1650s and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. These crises often provoked colonial reaction, indirectly by bringing forth new ideas……続きを見る

Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public viol……続きを見る

The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and pol……続きを見る

Reimagining National Belonging is the first sustained critical examination of post–civil war El Salvador. It describes how one nation, after an extended and divisive conflict, took up the challenge ……続きを見る