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Aztec and Maya: An Illustrated History: The Definitive Chronicle of the Ancient Peoples of Central America and Mexico - Including the Aztec, Maya, Olm
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An enthralling reference to the architecture, art, religion, myths and everyday life of the Aztec and Maya civilizations, in a new edition with 100...
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Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670-1810
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abu...
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The Formation of Latin American Nations: From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /This pioneering work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columb...
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Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully prese...
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Colonial Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $64.99 - Original price $64.99Original price $64.99$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /The tenth edition of Colonial Latin America provides a concise study of the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World and their preconquest ...
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times Notable Book of the year. Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, th...
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The Undocumented Americans
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Notes From Your Bookseller Cornejo Villavicencio challenges us to truly consider the question: What does it mean to be "undocumented" in America?...
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The Maya
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies and featuring full-color illustrations. The Maya has lo...
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The Manuscript Hunter
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) amas...
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Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found hims...
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False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992) examines the “return of history” that swept across ...
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False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)
HardcoverOriginal price $129.95 - Original price $129.95Original price $129.95$158.99$158.99 - $158.99Current price $158.99| /False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992) examines the “return of history” that swept across ...
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Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both ple...
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I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to...
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The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat...
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Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, 1890-1940 / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /At the turn of the twentieth century, Honduras witnessed the expansion of its banana industry and the development of the United Fruit Company and...
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The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan: The Evolution of a Highland Guatemala Kingdom
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán offers a full account of the Quichés, th...
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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas -- and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europ...
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Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and inf...
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Empire on Display: San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The world's fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 eart...
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The Battle for Paradise: Surfing, Tuna, and One Town's Quest to Save a Wave
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /CORRECTION: Regarding the book, The Battle for Paradise by Jeremy Evans, the following correction has been made on page 163 in paragraph three (3) ...
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Translating Maya Hieroglyphs
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students, but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehens...
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Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War Volume 8
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520390768 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 12-12-2023 Pages: 285 Serie...
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Where There Was Fire
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias Costa Rica, 1...
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