Nonfiction - Latinx Reads
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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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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism By one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into...
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The Taken: True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug traffi...
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy...
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In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped s...
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Latin America's Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called "long peace" afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear st...
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Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro...
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
PaperbackOriginal price $17.60 - Original price $17.60Original price $17.60$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /It has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book,...
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Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This work examines Gutiérrez's Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003) as a literary response to the social, political, and economic crisis of Cuba's Spec...
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The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line o...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /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 t...
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Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growt...
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Transimperial Anxieties: The Making and Unmaking of Arab Ottomans in S√£o Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1940
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /From the late 1850s to the 1940s, multiple colonial projects, often in tension with each other, influenced the formation of local, transimperial, a...
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Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 a...
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Orozco
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /On August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five “horse thieves.” One of them, it turned out, was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the ...
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Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3: Volume 3
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbu...
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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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Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /What happened to indigenous life after contact with the Spanish? In the complex interaction of cultures, how and to what degree did traditional way...
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Movements After Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled politic...
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Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, ...
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After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524-1730
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in ruins. Conquistador Hern n Cort s, following the city's surrender in...
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The Stations of the Cross in Colonial Mexico: The Via Crucis En Mexicano by Fray Agustin de Vetancurt and the Spread of a Devotion
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Walking the Stations of the Cross, the Christian faithful re-create the Passion, following the sorrowful path of Jesus Christ from condemnation to ...
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Latin America and the Global Cold War
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist wor...
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Modern Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Now thoroughly updated in its ninth edition, Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and a leading interdisciplinary text in the field...
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