Central America category: 775 books

Cover of Mussolini's National Project in Argentina
by David Aliano
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

Mussolini’s National Project in Argentina offers new perspectives on the politics of identity formation while providing a transatlantic example of the dynamic interplay between the Italian state and its emigrant communities. It is in short, a transnational perspective on what it means to belong to a nation.
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Blood on the Border

A Memoir of the Contra War

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016

Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s...
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Rascally Signs in Sacred Places

The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua

by David E. Whisnant
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional expressive forms--including literature, music, film, and broadcast media--the book explores the...
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The Quiet Revolutionaries

Seeking Justice in Guatemala

by Frank M. Afflitto, Paul Jesilow
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009

The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the country to escape the violence. Yet, at the same moment, a popular movement for justice brought together unlikely bands of...
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by Juan Carlos Castillón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Una claustrófobica y vertiginosa novela sobre la violencia y sus efectos dehumanizadores en quienes la ejercen, por vocación, convicción o puro azar.
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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Armed conflicts have a destabilizing effect on individual nations and the international community alike. Conversely, reducing warfare has a positive effect on both national and international...
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Citizens of Memory

Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina

by Silvia R. Tandeciarz
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how...
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Our Elders Teach Us

Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

by Allan Burns, David Carey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009

In this rich and dynamic work, David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves. Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research...
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War by Other Means

Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013

Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence against the Maya, and the dismantling of alternative projects for the future. War by Other Means brings...
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Myths of Modernity

Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

by Elizabeth Dore
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006

In Myths of Modernity, Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua’s transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country’s capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930, she maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and...
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The Awakening Coast

An Anthology of Moravian Writings from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua...
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Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico

Defining Racial Difference

by Prof. Robert C. Schwaller, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within...
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Vecinos de casa poblada

Los Gómez de Portugal de Santa María de los Lagos, 1563-1810

by Lina Mercedes Cruz Lira
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 19, 2017

Esta investigación pertenece a la historia social, específicamente a la línea interesada en el estudio de las familias de las élites locales del Antiguo Régimen, cuyas herramientas conceptuales y metodológicas nos permiten comprender las actitudes y los comportamientos de las sociedades rurales...
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by Haydee Sosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2014

Desidi haser esta fantasia por 50 aos de confusion del pueblo cubano Que no los deja encontrar su paz. Buscando el alientos tal vez en mitos Claudia representa al pueblo, Marjinado y confundido yeno de temores Y luchando siempre no perder el cordon unblicar con el que todos nasemos
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