Central America category: 775 books
The Art of Political Murder
Who Killed the Bishop?
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
In this New York Times Notable Book, an award-winning writer undertakes his own investigation into the murder of a Guatemalan bishop.
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post Book World*, the* Chicago Tribune*, the* Economist*, and the* San Francisco Chronicle
Two days after...
Sparrow and the Hawk
Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of Jose Figueres
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Using Costa Rica as a example, Longley carefully examines the development of the successful relationship between a nonindustrialized country and the United States, revealing the complex forces at work in resistance and accommodation.
During World War II and the immediate postwar era, both...
The Politics of Che Guevara
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
This reexamination of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution is a must-read for today's activists—or anyone longing to fight for a better world.
Fifty years after his death, Guevara remains a symbol to legions of young rebels and revolutionaries....
Che Guevara
El gran revolucionario
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Abundan las biografías escritas sobre el Che Guevara. De hecho, cada año aparecen en todo el mundo y en distintos idiomas, algunas más, que se agregan a una biblioteca siempre creciente, desde su muerte en octubre de 1967. Ello nos lleva a una primera pregunta: ¿Por qué se mantiene vivo el interés...
Voz popular, saberes no oficiales:
humor, protesta, disidencia y organización desde la escuela, la calle y los márgenes (México, siglo XIX)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 12, 2016
La cultura iletrada, la voz popular y marginal, se abre paso en esta obra para hacernos comprender su papel en la historia de México, incluso en la forja de un discurso letrado que se alimenta de ella, bien sea porque la comprende, la utiliza o es solidario con sus puntos de vista. A lo largo de...
by Philippe Girard
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally;...
Silenced Communities
Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Although the Guatemalan Civil War ended more than two decades ago, its bloody legacy continues to resonate even today. In Silenced Communities, author Marcia Esparza offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following...
by Bartolomé de las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
La Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias es un libro escrito por el dominico español Bartolomé de las Casas a mediados del siglo XVI. Como su nombre indica, se trata de un texto en el que el fraile se propone denunciar los destructivos efectos que tuvo para los pueblos indígenas...
The Education of a Radical
An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
"I went to Nicaragua with nothing but a tourist visa, $1,500 in cash, the name of someone at the Agrarian Reform Ministry, and the idea of being a revolutionary intellectual. . . . The idea took hold in a simple character flaw: wanting to believe that I knew better than everyone else."—From the...
by Leonardo Padura
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The previous two Padura novels, Havana Red and Havana Black were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 15,000. Padura’s masterful prose and eye for detail evoke the Havana that millions of tourists have...
Adiós Niño
The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
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 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration...
The Mayan in the Mall
Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In The Mayan in the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational...
The Illusion of Ignorance
Constructing the American Encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world. Detailed discussions of the logistics of conducting diplomacy, doing business, or traveling abroad in the era...
by Gerardo Aldana y V., Edwin L. Barnhart
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into Mayan sites, originating in the 19th century discovery of astronomical tables within hieroglyphic books....