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La Cristiada: The Mexican People's War for Religious Liberty
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a world filled with constant religious intolerance and strife, it is easy to overlook a little known twentieth-century religious war that was fo...
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Mexican Postcards / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Carlos Monsiváis is one of Latin America’s most prescient and prolific social commentators. In this, the first English translation of his work, h...
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Traición en Palacio: El negocio de la justicia en la 4T / Betrayal in the Palace . Justice As a Business in AMLOs 4T
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Antes de finalizar el tercer año de su gobierno, Andrés Manuel López Obrador apartó de su equipo disfrazando el hecho como una salida amistosa a ...
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El destructor / The Destroyer
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /SÍ PODÍA SABERSE. Sí podía saberse lo que iba a ocurrir si Andrés Manuel López Obrador llegaba a la Presidencia. Bastaba observar, poner atención...
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Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Bernal Díaz del Castillo fue uno de los descubridores y conquistadores de la Nueva España, sus provincias y del cabo de Honduras. Ya viejo y reti...
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Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico: How Politics Destroyed an Economic Miracle
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Who is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico—the United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historica...
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Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas (New & Updated Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A powerful elixir of hope and determination, Zapantera Negra provides a galvanizing presentation of interviews, militant artwork, and original do...
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Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous polit...
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Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /For fans of The Lost City of Z, The River of Doubt, and Lost in Shangri-La—a real-life Indiana Jones story, set in the mysterious jungles of Hond...
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Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hid...
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Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In early summer 1982—winter in the South Atlantic—Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a British Royal Navy Task Force ...
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The Maya Apocalypse and Its Western Roots
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Driven by a clear and compelling argument, this engaging book traces apocalyptic thinking in two civilizations--Western and Maya. Looking both ba...
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How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /With the drama of detective fiction, How Wall Street Created a Nation illustrates how a combination of financial gain and arrogant American imper...
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Secret History, Second Edition: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early examp...
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Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the polit...
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Luchadores: A History of Lucha Libre
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /What started in small venues around Mexico in the 1930s has become an industry that is now known all around the world. Millions of fans attend li...
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Who Counts?: The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economi...
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A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict. In this book, available for th...
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a...
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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign...
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Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is g...
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to mea...
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Felipe, el oscuro
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Calderón es una mezcla de malas maneras y mala suerte. Como no creo en la mala o buena suerte, deposito énfasis en las malas maneras. Llegó en ci...
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History of Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will readers understand the lively and sometimes turbulent history of our neighbor to the south. Su...
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