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Archdiocese of Sao Paolo Torture in Brazil: A Report by the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo Vintage 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065156. ISBN #039474456X / 9780394744568. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Baeza, Herve B. (editor-In-Chief) Haciendas of Yucatan: Chronicle of a Renaissance Editorial Dante 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or932416. ISBN #9706053212 / 9789706053213. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Boeker, Paul H. Lost Illusions: Latin America's Struggle for Democracy As Recounted by Its Leaders Markus Wiener Pub 1990 Soft Cover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or608245. ISBN #1558760245 / 9781558760240. (keywords: LATIN AMERICA) (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Boyd, Bill Bolivar: Liberatir of a Continent S.P.I. Books 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Price clipped. Book #or940007. (keywords: Biography Bolivar, Simon South America) (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Breslin, Jimmy The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez Crown 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or753900. ISBN #0609608274 / 9780609608272. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Breslin, Jimmy The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez Crown 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or753900. ISBN #0609608274 / 9780609608272. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary All of Eduardo Guti rrez s dreams gave him no idea of the dangerous path ahead. The young dream of everything except death . . . The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guti rrez is Jimmy Breslin s most passionate and hard-hitting book to date. A work of conscience that travels from San Mat as Cuatchatyotla, a small dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing expos chronicles the life and tragic death of an illegal immigrant worker, along with the broader issues of municipal corruption and America s deadly and controversial border policy. In November 1999, an accidental death at a Brooklyn construction site made headlines because the developers had major fund-raising ties to the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. But the dead man s name went all but unmentioned in the press coverage. In The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guti rrez , Breslin not only gives the dead man a name but tells the story of his life: his birth in San Mat as, Mexico, his love for a woman named Silvia, and his hope of making enough money in the United States to secure a more comfortable future back home in Mexico. The story behind Guti rrez s death is one of corruption, bad politics, and indifference to people whose lives are perceived not to count. With the issue of Mexican immigration and border policy taking center stage in our national debate, Guti rrez s story takes on even more relevance. The account of his flight, his desperation in a foreign and hostile country, and his needless death at the hands of unscrupulous forces should be a wake-up call to us all. In placing this man in the story s center, rather than its footnotes, Breslin does the same thing he did so famously when he interviewed the grave digger at John F. Kennedy s funeral: he wrenches our attention back to a story s most forgotten but most human perspective. Jimmy Breslin has written a classic on the subject. Powerful, honest, and unsparing, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guti rrez is a towering achievement by one of America
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Brown, Jonathan C Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979 The University of North Carolina Press 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or846482. ISBN #080784666X / 9780807846667. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Brown, Jonathan C Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979 The University of North Carolina Press 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or846482. ISBN #080784666X / 9780807846667. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays in this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and railway strikes in Mexico, the attempted revolution in Guatemala, railway nationalization and Peronism in Argentina, Brazil's textile strikes, the Bolivian revolution of 1952, Peru's copper strikes, and the copper nationalization in Chile all important national events in which industrial laborers played critical roles. Demonstrating an illuminating, bottom-up approach to Latin American labor history, these essays investigate the everyday acts through which workers attempted to assert more control over the work process and thereby add dignity to their lives. Working together, they were able to bring shop floor struggles to public attention and at certain critical junctures to influence events on a national scale. The contributors are Andrew Boeger, Michael Marconi Braga, Jonathan C. Brown, Josh DeWind, Marc Christian McLeod, Michael Snodgrass, Andrea Spears, Joanna Swanger, Mar a Celina Tuozzo, and Joel
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Burns, E. Bradford Latin America: Conflict and Creation, a Historical Reader Pearson 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or904471. ISBN #0135262607 / 9780135262603. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Burns, E. Bradford Latin America: Conflict and Creation, a Historical Reader Pearson 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or904471. ISBN #0135262607 / 9780135262603. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This text reproduces documents that provide a better understanding of the Latin American past and present, and draws most heavily from Latin American sources. It is distinguished by the widest variety of documentation, including art work, short stories, poetry, folk tales and travel accounts. For sociologists, historians, and all those interested in Latin American studies and history.
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Burns, E. Bradford Poverty Of Progress: Latin America in The Nineteenth Century 1983 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137036. ISBN #0520050789 / 9780520050785. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Burns, E. Bradford Poverty Of Progress: Latin America in The Nineteenth Century 1983 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137036. ISBN #0520050789 / 9780520050785. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the Preface by Bradford Burns: If this essay succeeds, it will open an interpretive window providing a different perspective of Latin America's recent past. At first glance, the view might seem to be of the conventional landscape of modernization, but I hope a steady gaze will reveal it to be far vaster and more complex. For one thing, rather than enumerating the benefits accruing to Latin America as modernization became a dominant feature of the social, economic, and political life of the region, this essay regards the imposition of modernization as the catalyst of a devastating cultural struggle and as a barrier to Latin America's development. Clearly if a window to the past is opened by this essay, then so too is a new door to controversy. After most of the nations of Latin America gained political independence, their leaders rapidly accelerated trends more leisurely under way since the closing decades of the eighteenth century: the importation of technology and ideas with their accompanying values from Western Europe north of the Pyrenees and the full entrance into the world's capitalistic marketplace. Such trends shaped those new nations more profoundly than their advocates probably had realized possible. Their promoters moved forward steadfastly within the legacy of some basic institutions bequeathed by centuries of Iberian rule. That combination of hoary institutions with newer, non-Iberian technology, values, and ideas forged contemporary Latin America with its enigma of overwhelming poverty amid potential plenty. This essay emphasizes that the victory of the European oriented ruling elites over the Latin American folk with their community values resulted only after a long and violent struggle, which characterized most of the nineteenth century. Whatever advantages might have resulted from the success of the elites, the victory also fastened two dominant and interrelated characteristics on contemporary Latin America: a deepening dependency and the declining quality of life for the majority.
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Caistor, Nick Rainstick Pack, The: Explore the Mysteries and Traditions of Native Chilean Culture Universe Books 1998 Hard Cover. Clean pages, boards and DJ.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or570456. ISBN #0789300923 / 9780789300928. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Cameron , Roderick Viceroyalties of the West: the Spanish Empire in Latin America Little, Brown and Company 1968 hardcover. 1ST U.S. edition.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or793560. (keywords: Latin America / South America / Spanish Empire) (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Cardoso, Fernando Henrique; Winter, Brian Accidental President Of Brazil: A Memoir PublicAffairs 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or768808. ISBN #1586483242 / 9781586483241. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Cardoso, Fernando Henrique; Winter, Brian Accidental President Of Brazil: A Memoir PublicAffairs 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or768808. ISBN #1586483242 / 9781586483241. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with inflation that had run at 3000 percent a year. Brazil had a habit of chewing up finance ministers with the ferocity of an Amazon piranha. This was just one of the turns in a largely unscripted and sometimes unwanted political career. In exile during the harshest period of the junta that ruled Brazil for twenty years, Cardoso started his political life with a tentative run for the Federal Senate in 1978. Within fifteen years, and despite himself, this former sociologist was running the country. And what a country Brazil, it is often said, is on the edge of modernity, striding with one foot in mid-air towards the future, the other still rooted deep in a traditional past. It is a land of sophisticated music and brutal gold-digging, of the next global superpower and the last old-time coffee plantations. It is gloriously ungovernable, irrepressibly attractive, and home to the family, friends and extraordinary life of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. This is his story and his love song to his country.
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Casas, Bartolom de Las The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account Johns Hopkins University Press 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1131229. ISBN #0801844304 / 9780801844300. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Casas, Bartolom de Las The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account Johns Hopkins University Press 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1131229. ISBN #0801844304 / 9780801844300. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first--and most insistent--voices raised in that debate was that of a Spanish priest, Bartolome de Las Casas, acquaintance of Cortes and Pizarro and shipmate of Velasquez on the voyage to conquer Cuba. In 1552, after forty years of witnessing--and opposing--countless acts of brutality in the new Spanish colonies, Las Casas returned to Seville, where he published a book that caused a storm of controversy that persists to the present day. The Devastation of the Indies is an eyewitness account of the first modern genocide, a story of greed, hypocrisy, and cruelties so grotesque as to rival the worst of our own century. Las Casas writes of men, women, and children burned alive "thirteen at a time in memory of Our Redeemer and his twelve apostles." He describes butcher shops that sold human flesh for dog food "Give me a quarter of that rascal there, " one customer says, "until I can kill some more of my own" . Slave ship captains navigate "without need of compass or charts, " following instead the trail of floating corpses tossed overboard by the ship before them. Native kings are promised peace, then slaughtered. Whole families hang themselves in despair. Once-fertile islands are turned to desert, the wealth of nations plundered, millions killed outright, whole peoples annihilated. In an introduction, historian Bill M. Donovan provides a brief biography of Las Casas and reviews the controversy his work produced among Europeans, whose indignation--and denials--lasted centuries. But the book itself is short. "Were I t describe all this, " writes Las Casas of the four decades of suffering he witnessed, "no amount of time and paper could encompass this task."
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Christian, Shirley Nicaragua: Revolution in The Family 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096672. ISBN #0394535758 / 9780394535753. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Collier, David (edited by) The New Authoritarianism in Latin America Princeton University Press 1980 Trade Paperback. undelining and inking throughout text. mild shelf wear.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or364951. ISBN #0691021945 / 9780691021942. (keywords: BUREAUCRACY LATIN AMERICA POLITICS GOVERNMENT) (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Crow, John A. Epic Of Latin America University Of California Press 1980 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or879138. ISBN #0520037766 / 9780520037762. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Fagen, Richard R.; Cornelius, Wayne A. (editors) Political Power in Latin America : Seven Confrontations Prentice-Hall 1970 Trade Paperback. light shelf wear; light yellowing. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or601173. ISBN #0136849695 / 9780136849698. (keywords: AMERICA_HISTORY) (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Feitlowitz, Marguerite Lexicon Of Terror: Argentina And The Legacies Of Torture 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091376. ISBN #0195106350 / 9780195106350. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Feitlowitz, Marguerite Lexicon Of Terror: Argentina And The Legacies Of Torture 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091376. ISBN #0195106350 / 9780195106350. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror , Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the crime of genocide. Feitlowitz explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse "The Parliament must be disbanded to rejuvenate democracy" and to domesticate torture and murder. Thus, citizens kidnapped and held in secret concentration camps were "disappeared"; torture was referred to as "intensive therapy"; prisoners thrown alive from airplanes over the ocean were called "fish food." Based on six years of research and moving interviews with peasants, intellectuals, activists, and bystanders, A Lexicon of Terror examines the full impact of this catastrophic period from its inception to the present, in which former torturers, having been pardoned and released from prison, live side by side with those they tortured. Passionately written and impossible to put down, Feitlowitz shows us both the horror of the war and the heroism of those who resisted and survived--their courage, their endurance, their eloquent refusal to be dehumanized in the face of torments even Dante could not have imagined.
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Flores, Maria The Women With The Whip: Eva Peron Doubleday and Co. 1952 hardcover. Book Club edition. . BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or888361. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Franko, Patrice Puzzle Of Latin American Economic Development 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130401. ISBN #0742524663 / 9780742524668. (filed under: Latin America ) *
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Franko, Patrice Puzzle Of Latin American Economic Development 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130401. ISBN #0742524663 / 9780742524668. (filed under: Latin America ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Fully revised and updated, this text provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems facing the countries of Latin America. In this second edition, Patrice Franko analyzes challenges to the neoliberal model of development and highlights recent macroeconomic changes in the region, including the broad move to a floating exchange rate and the collapse of the Argentine economy. Including charts and tables with the most current data available, the book also offers a wealth of new boxed discussions and vignettes. After a brief historical overview, Franko builds a contemporary model of regional development. She explores the contradictions of growth, especially in the context of overcoming intractable problems of poverty, education, health, and discrimination. Franko focuses on factors of competitiveness, including labor markets, technology, and infrastructure challenges. Inviting students to view challenges through the eyes of policymakers, the text encourages a critical assessment of past and present policy choices. Data exercises promote research skills and highlight the diversity of development experiences in the region. Liberally interspersed with examples and case studies, the author successfully combines theory and its application in the real world. This innovative yet user-friendly text simultaneously challenges strong students while clarifying the fundamentals for novices. By exploring the difficult choices facing Latin American policymakers, the author gives readers interested in economics or in Latin American studies the conceptual means to understand the puzzle of strong, sustainable, and equitable growth in the region.
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