Latin category: 3540 books

'Lanyon has spent more than a decade pursing this elusive woman, Malinche---in archives, in churches, in forgotten corners of Mexico. Lanyon has read her sources sensitively, and distils their magic with grace. The story of her quest is mesmerising, and its telling to be relished, with the prose simple,...

This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Indians, and the single most important figure of the period after Columbus. Explores the period known...

The history of General Jose de San Martin has been amply and authoritatively recorded by General Bartolome Mitre in three exhaustive volumes. In writing this work he has consulted all the books, pamphlets, newspapers, and fly-sheets which had ever been printed concerning San Martin. In his Preface...

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them...

A history of Mexico and Central America, and how the Spaniards and the Natives met and interacted.  Quite a thrlling history.

Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illustrates the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. The volume emphasizes the actions and interactions of the indigenous...

Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists’ participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government’s revision of national identity...

René Colato Lainez, award-winning Latino author of more than seven books for young people, says, " 'A Mango for the Teacher' is a memoir of dreams, hopes and learning. 'A Mango' is a "manjar" (a delicious dish) for teachers, students and readers of all ages." In the words of Lucille...

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...

This book is the wing-man for the novice Cuba traveler looking to get the most out of their Cuba experience. Imagine knowing all the possible mistakes, traps, and scams before you make them. Well, this book will allow you to do exactly that. Which is to arrive in Havana a quasi expert.

· First authorized edition to be published, with revised translation. . The title suggests it is a manual for would-be guerrillas. In fact, it is more of a political analysis, and marks the first time Che argues for the primacy of the subjective factor in the building of a revolutionary movement...

Doroteo Arango—much better known as "Pancho Villa"—was one of the revolutionary generals during Mexico's turbulent times in the early 1900s. Villa was a train robber, a cattle thief, and a murderer, yet today he is revered by Mexicans and Americans for his accomplishments, and roads and...

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...

The story of the Spanish discovery of the Pacific by Balboa, and his conquest of the Indians along the way.