Latin America category: 3090 books
José Martí Reader
Writings on the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
“[Martí] added a social agenda to the historic program of national liberation and instantly converted a movement devoted to the establishment of a new nation into a force dedicated to shaping a new society. Martí transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver, Martí pulled together...
Intimations of Modernity
Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture...
Another Face of Empire
Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies...
Contrary Destinies
A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and political scientists interested in international relations between the United States and other countries in the region."--Leslie G. Desmangles, author of...
by Floyd Merrell, María Teresa DePaoli
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Las culturas y civilizaciones latinoamericanas has been updated. This textbook not only describes the history of Latin America, but it sets a mood that allows the reader to get a genuine sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations of this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of...
The Last Caudillo
Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America.
Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past
Represents...
Latinos, Inc.
The Marketing and Making of a People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing...
Cuba’s Gay Revolution
Normalizing Sexual Diversity Through a Health-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Cuba’s Gay Revolution explores the unique health-based approach that was employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity (LGBTQ) since 1959. It examines leaders in the process to normalize sexual diversity, such as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and...
The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution
The Light in the Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The book interprets the Cuban revolutionary movement from 1868 to 1959 as a continuous process that sought political independence and social and economic transformation of colonial and neocolonial structures. Cuba is a symbol of hope for the Third World. The Cuban Revolution took power from a national...
Barrio Rising
Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising—unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion.
Based...
Indians, Oil, and Politics
A Recent History of Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
"It is indispensable that Ecuador has peace, but to have peace you need freedom and to have freedom you need justice. And the Indian population needs justice."-President Gustavo Noboa, January 23, 2000 For five centuries, the Indians had very little voice in Ecuador. Now they are major protagonists...
Living with Lupus
Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus...
The Mexican Revolution's Wake
The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution,...
Blacks of the Land
Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made...