Central America Books


Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina 1966-1973 in Comparative Perspective	A Brief History of Central America Best Price: $12.50 This is the first interpretive history of Central America by a Central American historian to be...	Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magón in the United States Best Price: $13.95 Ricardo Flores Magón (1873-1922) occupies a unique position as both a hero in the...	The Spanish Seaborne Empire Best Price: $14.95 I had to read this book for a class regarding History of Latin America, and I found it to be...	Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration Best Price: $35.00 Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are...



The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey Best Price: $78.53 Mr. Perera is a journalist and this book reads more like a sensational pulp magazine than...	2000 Years of Mayan Literature Best Price: $47.76 Bringing together years of research and reflection about the Maya, both ancient and...	Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (California Series in Public Anthropology, 8) Best Price: $19.89 Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that...	Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It (California Series in Public Anthropology) Best Price: $8.98 In 2000 a controversy exploded around numerous, diverse, and very serious allegations about...	Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (California Series in Public Anthropology) Best Price: $13.00 In this text, Manz tells us a 30-year story beginning with the Guatemalan Civil War. Her...



Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike Best Price: $14.45 The California Grape Strike, which started in 1965, was a watershed event for farm laborers in...	Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States Best Price: $14.49 Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a...	A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration Best Price: $44.97 What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico...	Parties and Politcal Change in Bolivia: 1880-1952 (Cambridge Latin American Studies) In 1952 Bolivia experienced a profound social, economic and political revolution, one of the...	Latin America in Colonial Times Best Price: $25.11 Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great...

Law and Politics in Aztec Texcoco (Cambridge Latin American Studies) This book addresses two important deficiencies in the fields of Aztec studies and the...	Latin America and the Comintern, 1919-1943 (Cambridge Latin American Studies) Best Price: $36.57 This study of relations between Latin America and the Third (Communist) International or...	Informe que el Jefe de la Comision Mexicana de Lismites con Guatemala Best Price: $12.32 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...	Lost Cowboys: From Patagonia to the Alamo	History of Belize Best Price: $131.62

The Maya	Piloting the Panama Canal: Experiences of a Panama Canal Pilot Best Price: $13.43 This book is a mess. It reads in the third person, and the central character isn't the name...	The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas Best Price: $20.50 ...I am an expat American/Panamanian, and this book is factual to a tee. Before it shut down in...	A History of Latin America: Volume 2: Independence to the Present Best Price: $39.99 easy to read and understand but the chapters are divided by time instead of country so you go in...	Operation Just Cause: The Storming of Panama Best Price: $29.22 The authors visited each major battle site to write this authoritative and vivid account of...

Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945 Best Price: $50.00 Can music be political? Germans have long claimed the symphony as a pillar of their modern...	Nasca: Eighth Wonder of the World ? Best Price: $56.00 The giant ground drawings that cover 400 square miles of the floor of southern Peru's...	Uttermost Part of the Earth: A History of Tierra del Fuego and the Fuegians Best Price: $35.90 Rapturous praise met the publication of Lucas Bridges' marvellous chronicle of Tierra del...	The Supergods: They Came On A Mission to Save Mankind Best Price: $56.00 Maurice Cotterell is a very smart researcher, using super-computers to get star alignments and...	The Supergods: They Came on a Mission to Save Mankind Best Price: $46.22 I have been reading/studying literature of this sort on and off for over a decade. Although as...

The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica Best Price: $15.34 Sterling Evans' The Green Republic is a fascinating account of the development of the NP of...	Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana (William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) Best Price: $25.00 Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of...	A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas: Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Third Edition (Corrie Herring Hooks Series) Best Price: $11.95 Before Howell published his guide to Mexican birding locations birders relied on the...	A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala, Second Revised Edition (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) Best Price: $24.78 Though a 1996 peace accord brought a formal end to a conflict that had lasted for thirty-six...	Ancient Maya Commoners Best Price: $25.00 Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who...

The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) Best Price: $49.98 In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso...	Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica....	Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in 19th-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico Best Price: $4.89 An exploration of the ways in which municipal officials and the Casa de Beneficencia shaped the...	Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 56: Humanities Best Price: $54.52 Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the...	Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below Best Price: $55.00 Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for...

Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution Best Price: $31.95 Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly...	The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica (Oxford Science Publications) Best Price: $268.13 The title of the book is misleading. Of the 650 pages, 33 are devoted to ants, and 41 are...	Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States Best Price: $12.46 In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over...	The Panama Canal Tolls Controversy; Or, a Statement of the Reasons for the Adoption and Maintenance of the Traditional American Policy in the Management of the Panama Canal Best Price: $13.77 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a...	Let's Visit Costa Rica (Burke Books) An introduction to Costa Rica, a country with much to offer in terms of stability and peace.

Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001 Best Price: $20.00 Historically, Nicaragua has been mired in poverty and political conflict, yet the country has...	The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition Best Price: $12.50 After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin...	Costa Rican Natural History Best Price: $42.98 Janzen's book is over twenty years old but remains an encyclopaedia of tropical America. The...	My Life with Che: The Making of a Revolutionary Best Price: $13.71 Now that a movie glorifying Guevara is about to make its debut out of Tinseltown, everyone with...	The Changing Face of Northeast Brazil Best Price: $100.00 Students of development around the world have continually pointed to Brazil as potentially the...

Time Among the Maya Travels in Belize,Guatemala,and Mexico	Guatemala: Eternal Spring - Eternal Tyranny "Well written, well photographed, well laid out and beautifully printed. It could be...	Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930 (Latin American Studies: Social Sciences and Law) Best Price: $134.84 Hayes' work on prostitution in Costa Rica fills a specialized historical void, but does so...	Chronology Best Price: $92.03	Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance Best Price: $60.52 "An invaluable resource to teachers of Latin American theater, with texts that provide an...

The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion Best Price: $27.80 How did the hummingbird become the symbol of the chief Aztec god? Who were the Hero Twins? Why...	Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya Best Price: $17.98 Until I finally started using this book (I've had my copy since December, but haven't...	The Remembered Village I had never heard of M.N.Srinivas before seeing this book, since I am an not a...	Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua: 1953-1961 Best Price: $125.00 During the Cold War era, the United States faced the prospect of expanding its power in Central...	Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema Best Price: $51.46 Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many...

Cerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery Best Price: $49.98	Women Legislators in Central America: Politics, Democracy, and Policy Best Price: $14.02 One of the worst books I have read. Complete dribble. If authors like these two can get...	Kaqchikel Chronicles: The Definitive Edition Best Price: $60.00 The collection of documents known as the Kaqchikel Chronicles consists of rare highland Maya...	Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 61: Social Sciences Best Price: $70.00 Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the...	The Politics of Sentiment: Imagining and Remembering Guayaquil Best Price: $19.95 Between 1890 and 1930, the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, experienced a liberal revolution and...

Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520-1720 (Llilas Special Publications) Best Price: $17.86 The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten...	The Quiet Revolutionaries: Seeking Justice in Guatemala Best Price: $13.26 The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads,...	The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615 (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) Best Price: $59.70 One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a...	Black Carib Household Structure: A Study of Migration and Modernization	Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World - 18th to 20th Centuries Best Price: $25.71 The contributors?historians and anthropologists from a number of countries?move beyond the...

Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image (Vintage Original) Best Price: $7.10 A short time before Michael Casey's "Che's Afterlife" began its print run, The...	Rescate La Historia de los 33 (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $8.77	Costa Rican Life.	The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary Best Price: $125.00 At a juncture in history when much interest and attention is focused on Central and South...	The End of Empire: Dependencies Since 1948, Part 1: The West Indies, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cyprus, Gibraltar, and the Falklands, Select ... Volume VIII (Documents in Imperial History) Best Price: $145.00 The eighth volume in Frederick Madden's monumental documentary history of the British...

Ideologues and Ideologies in Latin America: (Contributions in Latin American Studies) Best Price: $119.95 The chapters in this volume provide a varied yet consistent analysis of the ways in which...	Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro (Contributions in Latin American Studies) Best Price: $115.00 As a history of family life in the squatter settlements of Rio de Janeiro from the 1940s to the...	Latin America since 1780 Best Price: $25.15 Although largely sharing a common past and language, the countries in Latin America remain...	Fear as a Way of Life Best Price: $21.97 Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a...	The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (Theories of Representation and Difference) Best Price: $14.94 Emma Perez has written a risky and provocative book that dazzingly deconstructs the normative...

En Aquel Entonces: Readings in Mexican-American History Best Price: $27.35 En Aquel Entonces [In Those Days] Readings in Mexican-American History Edited by Manuel G....	Teotihuacan and Kaminaljuyu: A Study in Prehistoric Culture Contact (Pennsylvania State University Press Monograph Series on Kaminaljuyu) This is a strong academic study by a leading scholar on Teotituacan. However the image is not...	Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima Best Price: $25.81 This book tells the story of how ordinary Peruvian men and women experienced their lives and...	Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s Best Price: $24.79 "This book makes a significant contribution by synthesizing topics (legislators, party...	Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America Best Price: $32.94 Do Third World countries beneifit from having large militaries, or does this impede their...

Do the Poor Count?: Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty Best Price: $34.95 Latin America's flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s...	Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua This new volume provides an up-to-date survey of the Central American states involved in the...	Sandinista Communism and Rural Nicaragua (The Washington Papers) Best Price: $28.18 In this groundbreaking study, Janusz Bugajski evaluates the impact of Sandinista political,...	The Maya	Piloting the Panama Canal: Experiences of a Panama Canal Pilot Best Price: $13.43 This book is a mess. It reads in the third person, and the central character isn't the name...

The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas Best Price: $20.50 ...I am an expat American/Panamanian, and this book is factual to a tee. Before it shut down in...	A History of Latin America: Volume 2: Independence to the Present Best Price: $39.99 easy to read and understand but the chapters are divided by time instead of country so you go in...	Operation Just Cause: The Storming of Panama Best Price: $29.22 The authors visited each major battle site to write this authoritative and vivid account of...	Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945 Best Price: $50.00 Can music be political? Germans have long claimed the symphony as a pillar of their modern...	Nasca: Eighth Wonder of the World ? Best Price: $56.00 The giant ground drawings that cover 400 square miles of the floor of southern Peru's...

Uttermost Part of the Earth: A History of Tierra del Fuego and the Fuegians Best Price: $35.90 Rapturous praise met the publication of Lucas Bridges' marvellous chronicle of Tierra del...	The Supergods: They Came On A Mission to Save Mankind Best Price: $56.00 Maurice Cotterell is a very smart researcher, using super-computers to get star alignments and...	The Supergods: They Came on a Mission to Save Mankind Best Price: $46.22 I have been reading/studying literature of this sort on and off for over a decade. Although as...

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