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Jesús Cossío Guevara, Alfredo Villar, Luis Rossell,

Rupay

One of the bloodiest and longest lasting revolutionary movements in Latin America described in graphic form.Rupay , in Quechua, means ardor, fire. On May 17th, 1980, the Shining Path, a Maoist group in Pe…

Peter V N Henderson

Uruguay

This book illuminates the broad sweep of Uruguay's political, economic, and social history from colonial times to the twenty-first century within a transnational context. It dives into the country's uniqu…

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime

Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell

In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against ne…

Modern Architecture of Quito

A historical study of Latin American modernism, foregrounding Quito, Ecuador as a point of encounter between local and international influences.

Understanding and Teaching Modern Latin America

Understanding and Teaching Modern Latin America combines engaging, clearly written overviews of key themes with fresh and well-tested classroom approaches for teaching today's students about a complex his…

Gabriele Esposito,

Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70

Between 1864 and 1870 four nations fought in an extraordinarily bloody war - the largest in the history of South America. The powerhouses Argentina and Brazil alongside tiny Uruguay on one side, and the s…

Sebastian Purcell

The Outward Path

The Aztecs were a philosophical people who held that the top goal in human life is not happiness but the pursuit of what they called 'neltiliztli': a life in truth. Our world, they held, is a "slippe…

Claudia Kedar

The World Bank and the Cold War in Latin America

Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a central pillar of the postwar order, and the world's leading development institution. This book provides a comprehensi…

Ana Lucia Araujo

Humans in Shackles

"Ana Lucia Araujo's Humans in Shackles is an Atlantic cultural history of slavery in the Americas that sets out to redress the imbalances of existing general histories of slavery by centering on the …

Natalia Majluf

Inventing Indigenism

A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.

Fernando Luiz Lara

Spatial Theories for the Americas

Confronts the I nsufficiencies of C anonical Architectural Texts

Modern Architecture of Quito

Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito-the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment-stands as a testament to architectural in-betweenness. …

Lesley A Wolff

Culinary Palettes

How the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role in the making of postrevolutionary Mexico.

Thomas C Wright

Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution and Beyond

Examining how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, this fourth edition engages with the question: is the Cuban Revolution …

The Amlo Administration in Mexico

A diverse group of international scholars offers cutting-edge analysis of the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration and Mexico's "Fourth Transformation" - one of the most profound st…

Ernesto Che Guevara

Latin America Diaries

"These letters, poetry, and journalism document young Ernesto Guevara's second Latin American journey following his graduation from medical school in 1953. Together, these writings reveal how the you…

The Amlo Administration in Mexico

A diverse group of international scholars offers cutting-edge analysis of the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration and Mexico's "Fourth Transformation" - one of the most profound st…

Miriam Lewin, Horacio Lutzky,

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy

A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires. An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the military regi…