“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”
3,575円 Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the ...
The Quiet Revolutionaries
4,091円 The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the country to escape the violence. Yet, at the same moment, a popular movement for justice brought together unlikely ban...
I Ask for Justice
5,812円 **This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights. Winner, Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Associa...
Wolf Tracks
7,296円 Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art'...
Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?
1,335円 In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Mench� published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography-I, Rigoberta Mench�-transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought its author international renown. She won a...
La Travesia de Enrique
1,399円 Actualizada con un nuevo epílogo, reflexiones finales, fotos de Enrique y su familia, una entrevista con la autora y mucho más, esta es la versión definitiva de un clásico contemporáneo de los Estados Unidos. Basada en la serie de Los Angeles Times ganadora de dos premios Pulitzerーal mejor repor...
Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Illustrated
330円 The story of the Spanish discovery of the Pacific by Balboa, and his conquest of the Indians along the way.
Germany in Central America
4,400円 Analyzes the German role in Central American domestic and international relations Using previously untapped resources including private collections, the records of cultural institutions, and federal and state government archives, Schoonover analyzes the German role in Central American domestic an...
Female Prostitution in Costa Rica
11,275円 This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of ...
la ofensiva
878円 Una claustrófobica y vertiginosa novela sobre la violencia y sus efectos dehumanizadores en quienes la ejercen, por vocación, convicción o puro azar.
Broken Government
777円 The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy One of today's most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of government no longer operate as intended by the Constitution? Stepping back to assess three decades ...
Missing Mila, Finding Family
4,844円 In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoptio...
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