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The Pirates of Panama
Or The Buccaneers of America, A True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Also titled "The Buccaneers of America", this thrilling text is the best genuinely first-hand account of piracy to exist. Alexandre Exquemelin was on board the flagship of Henry Morgan, one of the most notorious pirates ever to sail. Exquemelin bore witness to some of the most extraordinary...
Che Guevara
A Revolutionary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life,...
by Mauricio A. Font
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil advances a distinctive interpretation of the dynamism of the São Paulo region since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Large and entrepreneurial coffee landlords opened the frontier to the west of the state capital, playing a key role in making...
by Fabián Escalante Font
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Operación Calipso da continuidad a la tetralogía que su autor, Fabián Escalante Font, ha denominado La Guerra Secreta. El escenario es ahora la región centroamericana, en particular, Nicaragua, donde el gobierno imperialista de los Estados Unidos desató una guerra sucia contra el gobierno del...
Unfinished Revolution
Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
The first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language, this exhaustive account draws from a wealth of untapped sources to tell the story of Nicaragua’s continuing struggle for liberation through the prism of the Revolution’s most emblematic yet enigmatic hero. It traces Ortega’s life...
Conflict in the Early Americas
An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Conquests
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
As the study of world history evolves from a Eurocentric perspective to a more global viewpoint, formerly marginalized groups are now the focus of discussion, revealing a background rich with important military, political, social, and economic achievement
Women and Guerrilla Movements
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new...
by João Capistrano de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the...
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, cyclone Covey
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490/1492 – Seville, c. 1557/1558/1559/1560) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer...
Nicaragua
Travel Journal December 2010 to January 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This travel journal is an account of Steven's visit to Nicaragua where he parties over Xmas with the expats in San Juan del Sur on the Pacific coast "a two-bit beach town where everyone knows your business and there's nothing to do but Drink or do Drugs" and where "the more you're Doped...
The Boiling River
Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon—where rivers boil and legends come to life.
When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend:...
by William H. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
The Aztec Empire was one of the most remarkable civilizations to have ever existed.
In 1519, Hernándo Cortés landed on the Gulf Coast, and two years later the Aztec civilization was a shadow of its former self.
The Spanish must have appeared invincible, with their Tlascalan allies,...
by Maurice Collis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."
Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization...
by A Guernsey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
The story of the Spanish discovery of the Pacific by Balboa, and his conquest of the Indians along the way.