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Tell Mother I’m in Paradise

Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador

Edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson

by Ana Margarita Gasteazoro

Introduction by Erik Ching

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817321215

Pub Date: April 2022

Format: Hardcover

The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience

 
Good Maya Women

Good Maya Women

Migration and Revitalization of Clothing and Language in Highland Guatemala

by Joyce N. Bennett

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817321161

Pub Date: February 2022

Format: Hardcover

Analyzes the forced migration of Maya women from highland Guatemala and their turn toward language and Indigenous clothing in their homeland
 
The Pinochet Generation

The Pinochet Generation

The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century

by John R. Bawden

Introduction by John R. Bawden

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360245

Pub Date: April 2021

Format: Paperback

The Pinochet Generation weaves together the dramatic history of Chile’s complex and fraught relationship to its armed services by thorough analysis of the experiences of General Augusto Pinochet’s generation of soldiers and the beliefs and traditions that motivated their actions.
Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite

Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite

by José Galindo

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817320805

Pub Date: January 2021

Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking historical narrative of corruption and economic success in Mexico
 
Enemy in the Blood

Enemy in the Blood

Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina

by Eric D. Carter

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817356927

Pub Date: October 2020

Format: Paperback

Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950.
Polacos in Argentina

Polacos in Argentina

Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture

by Mariusz Kalczewiak

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817320393

Pub Date: December 2019

Format: Hardcover

An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s
The Saints of Progress

The Saints of Progress

A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity

by Carmen Kordick

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817320027

Pub Date: January 2019

Format: Hardcover

A reshaping of traditional understandings of Costa Rica and its national identity
Faces of Resistance

Faces of Resistance

Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity

Edited by S. Ashley Kistler

Contributions by S. Ashley Kistler, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Allen J. Christenson, Stephanie J. Litka, Walter E. Little, Christopher H. Lutz, Judith M. Maxwell, Betsy Konefal, David Carey, W. George Lovell, Abigail E Adams and Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817319878

Pub Date: June 2018

Format: Hardcover

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898

Translated by Dolores J. Walker

by Josep Conangla

Edited by Joaquín Roy

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817358921

Pub Date: February 2017

Format: Paperback

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba’s second War of Independence.
Heart of Creation

Heart of Creation

The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele

Edited by Andrea Stone

Contributions by Andrea Stone, Marc Zender, Barbara MacLeod, David B. Kelley, Federico Fahsen, Nikolai Grube, Elin C. Danien, Duncan Earle, David M. Schele, David A. Freidel, Mary Miller, Gillett Griffin, Dorie Reents-Budet, Anthony Aveni, Merle Greene Robertson, Susan Milbrath, Elizabeth P. Benson, Michael D. Coe, Julia Guernsey Kappelman, Rex Koontz, Annabeth Headrick, Constance Cortez, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Frank Kent Reilly III and Matthew G. Looper

Price: $44.95

ISBN: 9780817311384

Pub Date: July 2015

Format: Paperback

Of interest to professionals as well as generalists, this collection will stand as a marker of the state of Mayan studies at the turn of the 21st century and as a tribute to the remarkable personality, Linda Schele, who guided a large part of that archaeological research for more than two decades.

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