819円 The story of Central America is one of plunder and pillage by the nations of the world: The gunboat diplomacy of the United States; the influence of the CIA; the greed of giant international corporations; the tragedy of slavery and conquest. This part of the world has never known stability or pea...

496円 This is a brief account of the adventures of Sieur Revanau De Lussan on the Isthmus of Panama during the mid 17th century when he fought the Spanish for their New World Treasures.

4,637円 In Myths of Modernity, Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua’s transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country’s capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930, she maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and la...

500円 1987 - An old woman finds a baby girl abandoned by the road in El Salvador. In the USA, Diane Remer-Thamert mourns the loss of a stillborn girl. Civil war is raging in El Salvador. Diane's husband Glen wants to adopt a child from El Salvador. He meets a Salvadoran attorney whose father can help t...

4,106円 In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration t...

5,300円 Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive resear...

4,137円 Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing storesーeverything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in bana...

1,555円 In this exhaustive and enlightening biographyーnearly two decades in the makingーGerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, f...

1,867円 The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in orde...

5,300円 Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence against the Maya, and the dismantling of alternative projects for the future. War by Other Means b...

3,708円 “A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaraguaーor in the overall issue of social change.”ーMargaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista Nation...

330円 A brief look at the gold industry in Central America in the mid nineteenth century, featuring the works in Nicaragua and Honduras. Digitally restored Illustrations.