Central America category: 775 books
Enclosed
Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q’eqchi’ Maya Lowlanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore...
Securing the City
Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment...
by Daniel T. DeMetris
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
ISLAND DREAMS
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create your own special place, from scratch, in a distant country? Perhaps on a remote and idyllic Caribbean island far from the troubles of the modern and hectic world? This is that story, it is a true and exciting chronicle...
Revolution
The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.
Despite their earnest commitment to a myriad of...
by Ruby Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Roatan is the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras in the Caribbean. Situated just 40 miles north of the mainland, the island is the most popular tourist and cruise ship destination in Honduras. Roatan offers beautiful beaches, relaxed, friendly locals and a mild climate. Roatan is a small, narrow...
Talking Tico
(Mis)adventures of a Gringo in and Around Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Costa Rica is one of the most sought after vacation destinations in the Americas with some of the world's most attractive natural surroundings teeming with wildlife. Most visitors spend years saving up for a trip of a lifetime, or perhaps even a honeymoon, but Joe decided to move there for ten months...
Cruise Through History
Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Sir Walter Raleigh left his mark on Trinidad during his search for El Dorado, the City of Gold. Admiral Nelson is a hero in this part of the world, such that he gave his name to a port in Antigua. He is rumored to have ended his days embalmed in rum. Peter Stuyvesant makes an appearance in Sint Maarten,...
Translated Christianities
Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers...
Panamanian Spanish
Speak like a Native!
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Don’t settle for generic Spanish! Put away the stale phrase books and learn to speak just like the natives! Join us as we explore the most common expressions used in Panama. Is a pelaito a small bald person? If someone offers you a camarón, is it seafood or an unexpected opportunity? Discover the...
by Joel W. Palka
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Ancient Mesoamerica drew world interest in the 19th century when photographs, drawings, and descriptions of discoveries of ruined cities in exotic locations in Mexico and Central America were published. These accounts from early explorers, archaeologists, and travelers made the cultures and archaeological...
Toxic Injustice
A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana...
by William J. Jorden
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 were the most significant foreign policy achievement of the Carter administration. Most Latin American nations had regarded the 1903 treaty and its later minor modifications as vestiges of "American colonialism" and obstacles to any long-term, stable relationship with...
by Richard Arghiris
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
El Salvador’s roads are less travelled compared to other Central American countries, making for a country which retains that elusive quality travellers often look for: adventure. From dramatic volcanic landscapes to blue-green lagoons, from the bustle of San Salvador to the quiet wilderness of El...
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic,...