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Escaping the Fire
How an Ixil Mayan Pastor Led His People Out of a Holocaust During the Guatemalan Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
During the height of the Guatemalan civil war, Tomás Guzaro, a Mayan evangelical pastor, led more than two hundred fellow Mayas out of guerrilla-controlled Ixil territory and into the relative safety of the government army's hands. This exodus was one of the factors that caused the guerrillas to...
by Harvey F. Kline
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Colombia is the fourth largest country in South America and one of the continent’s most populous nations. It has substantial oil reserves and is a major producer of gold, silver, emeralds, platinum, and coal, along with a significant number of natural resources. Colombia has also been ravaged by...
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....
Path of Empire
Panama and the California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest...
Cuba's Wild East
A Literary Geography of Oriente
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana....
Alejo Carpentier
The Pilgrim at Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. Carpentier’s...
George I. Sánchez
The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930–1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early 1970s, Sánchez was an outspoken proponent...
Cuban Foreign Policy
Transformation under Raúl Castro
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This volume illustrates the sweeping changes in Cuban foreign policy under Raúl Castro. Leading scholars from around the world show how the significant shift in foreign policy direction that started in 1990 after the implosion of the Soviet Union has continued, in many ways taking totally unexpected...
by David Aliano
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
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.
Exotic Nations
Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted...
The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa
Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In The Man Who Wrote Pancho...
The Merchant of Havana
The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association
As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism...
by Raymond Leslie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several volumes...
The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture
Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture—a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution—and the memoir of his son, Isaac.
The Revolution and its leaders have been studied and written about extensively. Until recently (2004), however, the memoir...