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Roanne Kantor

South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English

Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined b…

Ximena A Gómez

In the Hands of Devotees

An exploration of how Indigenous and Black communities shaped religious imagery and navigated life in colonial Lima.

José Martí

José Martí Reader

This anthology of the writing of José Martí's features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.José Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban indep…

Emily C Floyd

The Mobile Image

A study of the production and movement of prints in colonial South America.

María José Fitzgerald

Mystery on Macaw Mountain

Birds of a feather solve crime together in this riveting middle grade mystery! When eight endangered macaws are stolen from a bird sanctuary in the Mayan ruins of Copán, four sleuthing cousins must find o…

Juana Martinez-Neal,

Zonia's Rain Forest

"A girl who lives in the rain forest begins each day by greeting her animal friends in this exuberant picture book crowned with an environmental message."--- Shelf AwarenessZonia's home is the A…

Ernesto Che Guevara

The Awakening of Latin America

"In a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, "The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed." In …

Al Hirt (1922-1999)

Plays Bert Kaempfert & Latin In The Horn

Ernesto Che Guevara

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War

Che Guevara's definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war, in an updated edition. Includes photos and new foreword by Aleida Guevara---Che's eldest daughter who is a physician.There is no better acc…

Finance, Growth and Democracy: Connections and Challenges in Europe and Latin America in the Era of Permacrisis

The present volume uses a comparative regional approach to analyze how permacrisis¿an extended period of instability and insecurity¿has been experienced and dealt with in the European Union (EU) and Latin…

Derek S Burdette

Miraculous Celebrity

A study of the Christ of Ixmiquilpan, a historically beloved religious icon from sixteenth-century Mexico, and its evolving cultural importance.

History of Science in Latin America: The Construction of an Intellectual Field (20th century)

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century. It examines the establishment of the first Lat…

Katharine Lee Bates

America the Beautiful and Other Poems

The words to one of the United States' most beloved songs, "America, The Beautiful," were originally a poem written in 1893 by Wellesley College English professor Katherine Lee Bates, who found …

Laura R Blume

The Art of Trafficking

The Art of Trafficking is a powerful condemnation of the U.S.-led War on Drugs and makes a strong case for urgent policy changes, both in the U.S. as well as in Central America.

James Scorer

Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century

How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.

Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American Music, Part 4

Seit etwa einhundert Jahren wird die Geschichte der Folk Music in den USA auf Tonträgern festgehalten. In dieser Zeit entstand eine Tradition aus zumeist neuen oder aus Europa herübergeretteten Balladen, …

Tilsa Otta

The Hormone of Darkness

Poems published in this book have appeared in the following collections and publications: mi niäna veneno en el jardâin de las baladas del recuerdo (2004), Indivisible (2007), Antimateria: Gran acelerador…

Tavid Mulder

Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis

This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issues in relation to global capitalism. Drawing on a rich…

Kenneth Wayne Virgil

Abijah and the American Revolution

Sixteen-year-old Abijah Virgil has always been content with his provincial life, concerning himself with little beyond the farmwork that keeps his family afloat. But when the first shots of the American R…