Nonfiction - Latinx Reads
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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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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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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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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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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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A Concise History of Brazil / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto exami...
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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question o...
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Days and Nights of Love and War
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and ten...
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Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review...
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed o...
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The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she w...
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The History of Chile
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Within Chile is the driest desert in the world, the highest mountain range in the hemisphere, temperate rainforests, and a piece of Antarctica. I...
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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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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (T...
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Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the s...
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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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Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious natur...
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A History of Chile 1808-2018
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /As Chile has continued to grow and prosper in the twenty-first century, this new edition of the definitive history of the country brings the stor...
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Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho: Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan contributed to the Argentine vision of "transpacific modernity." Intellectuals suc...
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Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This broadly gauged, synthetic study examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire (called Tawintinsuyu) in 1532 brought dramatic and irre...
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Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierr...
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Before Brasília: Frontier Life in Central Brazil
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleBefore Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial a...
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Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Contents List of Illustrations xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xxvii Part I. "Men of Stone and of Iron" The African Slave Trade 1.1. The Beg...
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