Central America category: 775 books
by Gary Wonning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This book is dedicated to the Maya Indians for the contributions they have made and continue to make to the world as we know it.
It doesn't take long to discover that Belize is a land of contrasts. From the poverty and disarray of the cities to the quiet countryside, many differences are soon...
Africans into Creoles
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in...
by Howard Payson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A classic tale of adventure and intrigue among the natives of Panama, who attack our heroes, and the building of the Canal. Written for younger men at the time, this novel is great thrilling reading for the whole family.
The Salvadoran Crucible
The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979-1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington's largest nation-building effort since Vietnam. In 2003, policymakers looked to this “successful” undertaking...
Sandino's Communism
Spiritual Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Drawing on previously unknown or unassimilated sources, Donald C. Hodges here presents an entirely new interpretation of the politics and philosophy of Augusto C. Sandino, the intellectual progenitor of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution. The first part of the book investigates the political sources of...
The United States Discovers Panama
The Writings of Soldiers, Scholars, Scientists, and Scoundrels, 1850D1905
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Marking the centennial of Panama's separation from Colombia in 1903, this volume reprises U.S. images of the isthmus a century ago. The editors have collected a fascinating selection of articles from two of the most influential publications of the era, Harper's Monthly Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly,...
by Rajeshwari Dutt
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with his community’s interests as early national Yucatán underwent major political and social shifts....
Crime At El Escorial
The 1892 Child Murder, the Press, and the Jury
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of Spain’s intellectual elite in crystallizing dissatisfaction with the popular jury through its criticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: How can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encompassing...
Pulltrouser Swamp
Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Among Mesoamericanists, the agricultural basis of the ancient Maya civilization of the Yucatan Peninsula has been an important topic of research—and controversy. Interest in the agricultural system of the Maya greatly increased as new discoveries showed that the lowland Maya were not limited to slash-and-burn...
Green Phoenix
Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory. In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the...
Trade Unionists Against Terror
Guatemala City, 1954-1985
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In Trade Unionists against Terror, she explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms...
Stories of Civil War in El Salvador
A Battle over Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador's...
by Thomas M. Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Historical Dictionary of Panama covers the history of Panama through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture....