Nonfiction - Latinx Reads
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known...
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Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical sup...
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Ecos de Nueva España. Los siglos perdidos en la historia de México / Echoes of t he New Spain: The Lost Centuries in Mexican History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Casi 300 años de historia se asoman en este original y divertido libro ilustrado que recupera los viajes, lugares, oficios, costumbres y personaj...
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Thanks To God And The Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Winner of the 1991 Chicago Women in Publishing AwardIn a restaurant in Estelí, Nicaragua, Dianne Walta Hart, a visiting American scholar, and Mar...
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The City of Women / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /First published in 1947, the second edition of The City of Women was published in 1994 with a new Introduction by anthropologist Sally Cole. That...
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People and Issues in Latin American History Vol I / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Within these pages students will meet Bartolomé de Las Casas, the stout defender of the indigenous Americans in 16th-century Spanish America, and...
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Haiti: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philipp...
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The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la c...
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Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volu...
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The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social ...
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Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
PaperbackOriginal price $10.93 - Original price $10.93Original price $10.93$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de fé' in Maní where in addition to 5000 'idols, ' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This one act deprived...
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