Nonfiction - Latinx Reads
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Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge From Nazism
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the 1930s, many tens of thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. And in the short, terrifying months b...
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The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the Un...
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Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, c...
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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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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever dr...
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town Ameri...
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Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican me...
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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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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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Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Stra...
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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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Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution Volume 66
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An international history of radical movements and their convergences during the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a global event th...
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Risking Immeasurable Harm: Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924-1932
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The debate over restricting the number of Mexican immigrants to the United States began early in the twentieth century, at a time when U.S.-Mexic...
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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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Free to Learn: How Alfredo Lopez Fought for the Right to Go to School
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the author of the award-winning The Youngest Marcher comes a picture book about the true story of Alfredo Lopez, an undocumented boy involved ...
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Federico Villalba's Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fifteen miles sou...
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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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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories...
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican ...
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Separados No Somos Iguales: Sylvia Méndez Y La Lucha de Su Familia Por La Integración (Separate Is Never Equal Spanish Edition)
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Siete años antes de Brown v. Board of Education, la familia Méndez luchó para acabar con la segregación en las escuelas de California. Descubre su ...
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Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of Us Military Bases in World War II Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of coope...
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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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