Central America category: 775 books

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Panama began its modern history as a semi-colonial appendage of the United States (US). Since gaining independence in 1903, Panama witnessed both elitist quasi-democratic governments and authoritarian...

Three hundred years ago Francis Bacon wrote, amongst other wise words: "To be Master of the Sea is an Abridgement of Monarchy.... The Bataille of Actium decided the Empire of the World. The Bataille of Lepanto arrested the Greatnesse of the Turke. There be many Examples where Sea-Fights have...

How Wall Street Created a Nation: The Untold History of the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers...

Honduras Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

This guide is drawn from our larger book on Mexico's Gulf Coast, but here we focus on Tabasco, Oaxaca, Villahermosa, Chiapas & Palenque. We travel to grow – our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise – sometimes...

An Amazon Kindle Bestseller and Hot New Release about a true adventure in the jungles of Costa Rica!  Two cubicle convicts.  One jungle village.  A life without boundaries.  In this real-life comedic memoir, Laura Berger and Glen Tibaldeo expose the blessings and ironic struggles...

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...

Every weekday for 16 years English-speaking expats and readers all over the world welcome A.M. Costa Rica to their computer to find out the latest about this country. The original news reports compiled here are geared to the needs of foreigners living here and those elsewhere with personal or business...

In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996),...

**Moon Travel Guides: Make Your Move! From visas, to job-hunting, to cultural assimilation, get a head start on your life-changing move with Moon Living Abroad Costa Rica. Inside you'll find:** Practical information on setting up the essentials, including visas, finances, employment,...

Are you investigating retirement locales, looking to explore a new culture, or researching new business opportunities? This book is packed with practical and useful information as you start the next stage of life, with solid documentation on managing investments, real estate, the cost of living, medical...

In this latest edition of The Costa Rica Escape Manual, I dove deep… like middle earth deep, to bring you the most valuable tool for traveling through, moving to, or living in Costa Rica. The entire manual has been rehashed, reorganized and expanded, making it easier to use and more fun to read....

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 Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research...

Marquée par des années de violences urbaines, Medellín, capitale industrielle de la Colombie, se reconstruit peu à peu. Visite.