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Cuba Libre
A 500-Year Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus’s first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive overview for all readers seeking to go beyond...
Mexico in the 1940s
Modernity, Politics, and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Attention to Mexico's history after 1940 stands in the shadow of the country's epic revolution of 1910-1923, and historians and scholars tend to bring their focus on Mexican history to a close with the end of the L_zaro C_rdenas presidency in 1940. Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption...
Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America
Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Strong, colorful personalities who impose their will upon laws, constitutions, courts, and congresses are an enduring feature of Latin American politics, beginning with the violent regional bosses (caudillos) of the early nineteenth century and continuing with the 'hyper-presidential' systems of today....
by Blair Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
A comprehensive, timely, and entertaining account of the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of more than thirty discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, providing students with the most recent information possible. The information is presented in an objective,...
by R. Andrew Nickson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Land-locked Paraguay is one of the smaller nations of Latin America, whose global image is now changing very rapidly. In the process, the tired stereotype of a “forgotten” country comprising only military dictators, Nazis, and steam trains is being rapidly discarded. Indeed Paraguay is now no...
by Peter F. Klarén
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
With 10,000 years of history, Peru, with its formidable Inca and pre-Inca civilizations and its rich colonial and post-colonial past, formed the very foundations of multi-ethnic South American history and society. It is a country rich in natural and human resources, but has been largely confined to...
by Robert W. Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligence works and how its operations have impacted Russian history. It covers Russian intelligence from the imperial period to the present focusing in greatest...
Harry Hopkins
FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Analyzing Hopkins’s role in wartime diplomacy and his personal relationships with the 20th Century’s most indispensable leaders, historian Christopher O’Sullivan offers...
State Terrorism in Latin America
Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Set in the larger context of the evolution of international human rights, this cogent book examines the tragic development and ultimate resolution of Latin America's human rights crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Thomas Wright focuses especially on state terrorism in Chile under General Augusto Pinochet...
Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency
From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Throughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced countless assassination threats and attempts on their lives. These threats have extended not only to sitting Presidents and candidates but also to Presidents-elect and former Presidents. Assassinations, Threats, and the...
My Brother's Keeper
A Memoir and a Message
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
In My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message, one of America's most admired public figures tells the story of his life. Born in Germany in 1929, Amitai Etzioni escaped the Nazi regime and as a teenager dropped out of high school to fight as a commando in the Israeli War of Independence. He went...
Madame Ambassador
Behind the Scenes with a Candid Israeli Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Madame Ambassador draws on Tova Herzl’s twenty-one year career and unique experiences as a single, Jewish orthodox woman serving as Israel’s Ambassador to paint a vivid, entertaining picture of the lives and work of contemporary diplomats. She addresses major political events in which she was...
Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay
Honor and Egocentrism
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
The first serious biography of Francisco Solano López in English for decades, this richly researched book tells the dramatic story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler. Despite the heroic stature he gained after his death, López was a monumentally flawed leader who made the disastrous decisions in...
Revolution and Revolutionaries
Guerrilla Movements in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Few publications cover the full span of the history of revolutionary movements in Latin America. In Revolution and Revolutionaries, editor Daniel Castro examines all aspects of guerrilla warfare-from revolutionary programs to the repressive tactics used by various governments to rid themselves of...