Nonfiction - Latinx Reads
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated edition / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they re...
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El Salvador - A War by Proxy
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Central American nation of El Salvador was consumed by a bloody civil war between 1980 and 1992. The principal players in the conflict were t...
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The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a v...
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Francisco Goldman's widely-acclaimed retelling of the Bishop Gerardi murder case, now reissued with a new epilogue marking the release of George ...
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Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in...
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Sandinistas: A Moral History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Robert J. Sierakowski's Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista Nationa...
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Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest running and most contested of these, and the source of dee...
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African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior o...
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After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first fo...
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Understanding Central America: Global Forces and Political Change / Edition 7
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In this seventh edition, John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker update a classic in the field which invites students to explore t...
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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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Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli a First English Translation
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human l...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: accl...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: accl...
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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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Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. I...
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