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  • The Plantation

    by Edgar Tristram Thompson ...
    Series series Southern Classics
    The first complete publication of an overlooked gem in American intellectual historyA rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic theories of the origins of plantation societies and offered instead a richly ... Read more

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  • Empirical Futures

    Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz

    Edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, Stephan Palmié ...
    Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique “globalization studies.” However, a strong tradition of epistemologically sophisticated and ... Read more

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  • The Pirates' Who's Who

    Enriched edition. Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers

    by Philip Gosse, Eric Booth ...
    In "The Pirates' Who's Who," Philip Gosse delivers a meticulously researched compendium that intricately details the lives and exploits of some of history's most infamous pirates. With a blend of an informative narrative style and rich biographical sketches, Gosse situates these swashbucklers within the broader context of maritime history during the Golden Age of Piracy. The book's literary ... Read more

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  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Cruel Modernity

    by Jean Franco ...
    In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and how its causes differ from the conditions that brought about the Holocaust, which is generally the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Dictatorship in South America

    by Jerry Dávila ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin AmericaExamines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Panama Railroad

    by ORAN ...
    Before the canal, there was the railroad to connect the great oceans. This short pieces tells of the building of the railroad across the isthmus in the mid nineteenth century and details a journey by hand car on the line shortly after it was completed. ... Read more

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  • The Day Fidel Died

    Cuba in the Age of Raúl, Obama, and the Rolling Stones

    by Patrick Symmes ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors to American. The Rolling Stones played in Havana. President Obama arrived too in March. He was the ... Read more

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  • Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala

    by Robinson A. Herrera ...
    The first century of Spanish colonization in Latin America witnessed the birth of cities that, while secondary to great metropolitan centers such as Mexico City and Lima, became important hubs for regional commerce. Santiago de Guatemala, the colonial capital of Central America, was one of these. A multiethnic and multicultural city from its beginning, Santiago grew into a vigorous trading center ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Do the Poor Count?

    Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty

    by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson ...
    Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Illustrated

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

    $1.99 USD

  • Memories of Buenos Aires

    Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina

    Translated by Karen Robert ...
    by Memoria Memoria Abierta ...
    Series series Public History in Historical Perspective
    In the 1970s, Argentina was the leader in the “Dirty War,” a violent campaign by authoritarian South American regimes to repress left-wing groups and any others who were deemed subversive. Over the course of a decade, Argentina's military rulers tortured and murdered upwards of 30,000 citizens. Even today, after thirty years of democratic rule, the horror of that time continues to roil Argentine ... Read more

    $17.29 USD