Central America category: 775 books
Before the Revolution
Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera...
The Eyes That Have Cried
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The Eyes That Have Cried is a true, first-person account of survival in a land torn by war.
Teresa Cortez is a young girl living in El Salvador in the 1980s. The Salvadoran Civil War produces no winners and is a tragedy in which neither side can claim moral high ground. The government uses...
Xuxub Must Die
The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2004
Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber, sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found...
Strength Through Peace
How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World can Learn From a Tiny, Tropical Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department of Education. Socially, Costa Rica is a success story. Although 94th in the world for GDP, it is in the top 10...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.
La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende (Guía de lectura)
Resumen y análisis completo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 7, 2016
ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La casa de los espíritus, la primera novela de Isabel Allende, que la consagró como escritora de grandes ventas y cosechó un gran éxito traducido en múltiples adaptaciones. Con una habilidosa mezcla de hechos históricos y situaciones...
Authoritarian El Salvador
Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could...
An Old Filibuster, Illustrated
Sieur Revanau De Lussan on the Isthmus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This is a brief account of the adventures of Sieur Revanau De Lussan on the Isthmus of Panama during the mid 17th century when he fought the Spanish for their New World Treasures.
Intimate Activism
The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene...
A Hero's Curse
The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
A Hero's Curse is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simón Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez. For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolívar, to stir popular...
Revolution in the Countryside
Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a...
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's...
Cuba's Forgotten Decade
How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
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 bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
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 of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...