Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
T. J. English William Morrow William Morrow
In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In ...
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)
Paul Farmer University of California Press University of California Press
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia,...
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Rigoberta Menchu Verso Verso
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Born in Blood And Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, Second Edition
John Charles Chasteen W. W. Norton W. W. Norton
Made up of 20 very different countries, Latin America has sometimes been treated as though it were a homogeneous unit, one mired in poverty and political instability. University of North Carolina scholar John Charles Chasteen's sweeping history of...
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Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
Stephen Dando-Collins Da Capo Press Da Capo Press
When he died in 1877, Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty, was wealthier than the U.S. Treasury. But he had nearly lost his fortune in 1856, when William Walker, a young Nashville genius, set out to conquer Central America and,...
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Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition
Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press, USA
Now in its sixth edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Thoroughly updated and revised, the book includes a new chapter on the history of Colombia from the wars of independence to the...
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez Penguin (Non-Classics) Penguin (Non-Classics)
Readers familiar with immigration history as told in books like Roger Daniels's Coming to America will experience a sense of déjà vu with Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez. The immigrant experience is a constant in American life; although the...
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press, USA
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
David McCullough Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the...
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The Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner Vintage Vintage
In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and...
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