Browsing Latin America: 85 records found Click Here to choose another location to browse. Do you want to add this location to your Want List? Click here for more information... Sort By: Most Recently Added Author Title Price Printable Version   NEXT 25--> 1 2 3 4 $4.95 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 ) * $10.00 Argentina National Committee Fine Arts in Argentina: Buenos Aires 1939 Argentina National Committee 1939 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or961083. (filed under: Latin America ) * $3.99 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 ) * $8.99 Betancourt, Ingrid Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years Of Captivity in The Colombian Jungle 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028013. ISBN #1594202656 / 9781594202650. (filed under: Latin America ) * Betancourt, Ingrid Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years Of Captivity in The Colombian Jungle 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028013. ISBN #1594202656 / 9781594202650. (filed under: Latin America ) * stock image, actual book may vary $5.50 Black, George Good Neighbor : How the United States Wrote the History of Central America and the Caribbean Pantheon Books 1988 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151736. ISBN #0394759656 / 9780394759654. (filed under: Latin America ) * $7.50 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 ) * $8.99 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 ) * $7.50 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 ) * 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 $5.95 Brown, Michael F. Tsewa's Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or953159. ISBN #156098306X / 9781560983064. (filed under: Latin America ) * Brown, Michael F. Tsewa's Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or953159. ISBN #156098306X / 9781560983064. (filed under: Latin America ) * stock image, actual book may vary "An outstanding and innovative study on hunting, gardening, and love magic among the Aguaruna. . . . It is both highly useful ethnographically and an important contribution to the understanding of how a primitive culture conceptualizes its transactions with nature. The book touches on cosmology and religion as well as the ethnoecology of hunting and agriculture--with an interlude on sex." --American Ethnologist $7.50 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 ) * 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. $5.50 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 ) * 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. $10.00 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 ) * $8.95 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 ) * $9.95 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 ) * 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. $4.99 Castillo, Bernal Diaz del The Conquest of New Spain Penguin Books 1963 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1157514. ISBN #0140441239 / 9780140441239. (filed under: Latin America ) * Castillo, Bernal Diaz del The Conquest of New Spain Penguin Books 1963 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1157514. ISBN #0140441239 / 9780140441239. (filed under: Latin America ) * stock image, actual book may vary Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital. $9.99 Cawthorne, Nigel Empress Of South America 2003 hardcover. AS-IS. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or973783. ISBN #0434008982 / 9780434008988. (filed under: Latin America ) * Cawthorne, Nigel Empress Of South America 2003 hardcover. AS-IS. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or973783. ISBN #0434008982 / 9780434008988. (filed under: Latin America ) * stock image, actual book may vary LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $7.50 Clements, Charles Witness To War: An American Doctor in El Salvador 1984 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110385. ISBN #0553050648 / 9780553050646. (filed under: Latin America ) * Clements, Charles Witness To War: An American Doctor in El Salvador 1984 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110385. ISBN #0553050648 / 9780553050646. (filed under: Latin America ) * stock image, actual book may vary Book by Clements, Charles $7.50 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 ) * $6.99 Crandall, Russell Driven By Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia Lynne Rienner Publishers 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or861043. ISBN #1588260895 / 9781588260895. (filed under: Latin America ) * Crandall, Russell Driven By Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia Lynne Rienner Publishers 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or861043. ISBN #1588260895 / 9781588260895. (filed under: Latin America ) * stock image, actual book may vary $7.50 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 ) * $7.50 Davidow, Jeffrey US And Mexico: The Bear And The Porcupine Markus Wiener Publishers 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or790359. ISBN #1558763341 / 9781558763340. (filed under: Latin America ) * Davidow, Jeffrey US And Mexico: The Bear And The Porcupine Markus Wiener Publishers 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or790359. ISBN #1558763341 / 9781558763340. (filed under: Latin America ) * stock image, actual book may vary The bear and the porcupine, a parable created by the author, introduces the hypersensitive Mexican porcupine and the insensitive American bear and their difficult relationship. This image has now entered Mexican political discourse. Davidow outlines the forces drawing Mexico and the US together as well as the ignorance and arrogance on both sides, which impede greater cooperation. His expansive study includes a discussion of the two "cowboy presidents" Bush and Fox. Davidow points up how the US understanding of what was truly happening in the Mexican drug world was frequently manipulated, and notes that the US immigration policy has been a failure according to any criteria. Davidow provides readers with the inside story of how Fidel Castro orchestrated a vicious revenge after growing displeased with President Fox. The book describes the Zapata revolt and the subsequent march to Mexico City. Davidow recounts many humorous details about what an embassy must go through when attending to important congressional visits, especially presidential ones. He ends the book with an epilogue envisioning the future of US-Mexican relations. $20.00 Deutsch, Hermann B. Incredible Yanqui, The: The Career of Lee Christmas Longmans, Green and Co. 1931 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1027901. (filed under: Latin America ) * $5.50 Diamond, Linz & Lipset, ed. Democracy in Developing Countries, Vol. Four : Latin America Rienner paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151774. ISBN #1555870449 / 9781555870447. (filed under: Latin America ) * $7.50 Eckstein, Susan, ed. Power and Popular Protest : Latin American Social Movements University of California Press 1989 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148380. ISBN #0520062175 / 9780520062177. (filed under: Latin America ) * $7.50 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 ) *   NEXT 25--> 1 2 3 4