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  • A Brief History of Violence in Mexico

    by Pablo Piccato ...
    Translated by Quentin Pope ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Political rhetoric often portrays Mexico as an inherently violent nation. Pablo Piccato’s essential work, now available in English for the first time, cuts through the noise to contextualize violence as a historical phenomenon. Piccato shows us that violence is not unique to Mexico but, just as anywhere else, has erupted there in many forms. Attending to multiple histories of violence, Piccato ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico

    Media, Childhood and Child Kidnapping 1900-1968

    by Susana Sosenski ...
    Translated by Quentin Pope ...
    Series series History of Emotions
    Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico. This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing on children's special positions within Mexican society rather than criminal acts or the implementation of the law, Sosenski links social and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War

    by Vanni Pettinà ...
    Translated by Quentin Pope ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict. In this book, available for the first time in English, Vanni Pettinà makes sense of the region’s diverse, complex political experiences of the Cold War era. Cross-fertilized by Latin American and Anglophone historiography, his account shifts from an overemphasis on U.S. interventions ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Others

    Race, Regulations, and Corruption in Mexico’s Migration and Naturalization Policies, 1900–1950

    by Pablo Yankelevich ...
    Translated by Quentin Pope ...
    Series series Latin American History in Translation
    The Others reconstructs the history of migration and naturalization of foreigners in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century.Despite never receiving large influxes of foreigners, paradoxically Mexico has applied particularly tight controls on migration and naturalization. Why did it choose to limit the arrival of foreigners when their numbers were so low as a proportion of the total ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Adiós Niño

    The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death

    by Deborah T. Levenson ...
    In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances

    The Political History of Nunca Mas

    by Emilio Crenzel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP). It was established in 1983 by constitutional president Raúl Alfonsín to investigate the fate of thousands of people who had been disappeared by ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cuban Memory Wars

    Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile

    by Michael J. Bustamante ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    For many Cubans, Fidel Castro’s Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba’s turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans’ contested memories of the Revolution’s roots and results over ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Last Door

    A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives

    by Gladys I. McCormick ...
    Series Book 9 - Violence in Latin American History
    As guerrilla groups sprouted up across Mexico in the early 1970s, the military and police routinely resorted to extreme acts of violence, including the systematic use of torture. In The Last Door, Gladys McCormick provides the most thorough account of how torture became a crucial and routine practice of the Mexican government’s war against subversives. Drawing from extensive oral history ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • When Women Kill

    by Alia Trabucco Zerán ...
    Translated by Sophie Hughes ...
    A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Modern Colombia

    A Nation in Spite of Itself

    by David Bushnell ...
    Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mexico

    A 500-Year History

    by Paul Gillingham ...
    A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Paul Gillingham writes, from its outset “Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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