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  • The Blood Contingent

    The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911

    by Stephen B. Neufeld ...
    This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a modern society. The Porfirian regime sought to control ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Perilous Beasts

    Mexican Necropolitics, Animal Deaths, and Blood Sports, 1870–1920

    by Stephen B. Neufeld ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    A deep dive into the history of bullfighting, hunting, and animal control in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexico.In Perilous Beasts Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepted animal death as a part of daily human life. Whether with casual indifference or with roaring cheers, the death of animals became a feature of the emerging liberal and capitalist society.This ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mexico in Verse

    A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power

    Edited by Stephen Neufeld, Michael Matthews ...
    The history of Mexico is spoken in the voice of ordinary people. In rhymed verse and mariachi song, in letters of romance and whispered words in the cantina, the heart and soul of a nation is revealed in all its intimacy and authenticity. Mexico in Verse, edited by Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews, examines Mexican history through its poetry and music, the spoken and the written word.Focusing ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • Mexico

    A 500-Year History

    by Paul Gillingham ...
    Longlisted for the 2026 Cundill History PrizeA 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 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Diary of Che Guevara

    by Ernesto Che Guevara ...
    This is Che Guevara's last diary, compiled from notebooks found in his backpack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and subsequently executed.This is the definitive account of the attempt to spark a continent-wide revolution in Latin America. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • CHE GUEVARA: The Diary

    by Che Guevara ...
    The Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara provide a critical examination of revolutionary ideals, political struggles, and the transformative journey of a key figure in 20th-century history. Guevara documents his experiences during the Cuban revolution, capturing the challenges, victories, and moral dilemmas faced by the guerilla fighters. Through these writings, Che reflects not only on the political and ... Read more

    $1.90 USD

  • Che, a Memoir

    by Fidel Castro ...
    In this memoir, Fidel Castro describes his historic political partnership and personal friendship with Che Guevara, a relationship that changed the course of Cuban politics and world history.“For me it has been hard to accept the idea that Che is dead. I have dreamed of him often, that I spoke with him, that he was alive.”In this uncharacteristically gentle epitaph in book form, Castro brings Che ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

    by Geo Maher ...
    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution: Legacy of Courage

    by Neftalí G. García ...
    This book narrates the story of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. It was a period of rebellion and ruthless violence. It reports the major events that shaped a nation’s character. It follows the lives of the major players of Heliosian power who led the revolution and sacrificed their lives for it. Parts of the book are fictionalized for dramatic purposes. These are in italics. Finally the story raises ... Read more

    $3.99 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

  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

    by Barbara Weinstein ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo’s founding—this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Remembering Pinochet's Chile

    On the Eve of London 1998

    by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series Book 1 - Latin America Otherwise
    During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD