Central category: 1451 books
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 William J. Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A twenty eight page book that serves as your personal guide to these Mexican sports events. Describing the tradition, the culture, and the mechanics of the events to promote understanding of them.
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature
Remitting the Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience...
Connecting Histories
Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading...
Ernesto
The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
From the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence at Hemingway's beloved Cuban home comes a radically new understanding of “Papa’s” life in Cuba
Ernest Hemingway first landed in Cuba in 1928. In some ways he never left. After a decade of visiting regularly, he settled...
by Marc Becker
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. This clear and concise text extends our understanding with a critical narrative analysis of key case studies: the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution; the 1944–1954 Guatemalan Spring; the 1952–1964 MNR-led revolution...
Violence and Naming
On Mexico and the Promise of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array...
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...
The Invaded
How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three longest occupations-in Nicaragua,...
A Radical Faith
The Assassination of Sister Maura
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public...
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,...
After Insurgency
Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador...