Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
La Llorona La Llorona Q. L. Pearce An exploration of the legend of La Llorana, the Crying Woman, found in the American Southwest and Latin America. OL15451838W
Looking for history Looking for history Alma Guillermoprieto "Since Alma Guillermoprieto became The New Yorker's Latin American correspondent a decade ago, she has emerged as the most informed and admired writer on her part of the world. In these superb pieces… OL16028778W
The rebirth of Latin American Christianity The rebirth of Latin American Christianity Todd Hartch Predominantly Catholic for centuries, Latin America is still largely Catholic today, but the religious continuity in the region masks enormous changes that have taken place in the past five decades. … OL17052247W
The human tradition in modern Latin America The human tradition in modern Latin America William H. Beezley,Judith Ewell "Reworks classic biographical approach to social-political history. Covers 1780 to present. Intended for the classroom"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. OL18358493W
Che, my brother Che, my brother Juan Martin Guevara "On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages … OL19710692W
Latin America at 200 Latin America at 200 Phillip Berryman "Between 2010 and 2025, most of the countries of Latin America will commemorate two centuries of independence, and Latin Americans have much to celebrate at this milestone. Most countries have enjoye… OL20048150W
Manifest destinies and indigenous peoples Manifest destinies and indigenous peoples David Maybury-Lewis,Biorn Maybury-Lewis,Theodore Macdonald Papers presented at an interdisciplinary seminar held Apr. 7-8, 2006 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. OL20896803W
The Education of John Reed The Education of John Reed John Reed Selections from Reed's lively, passionate writing in the decade 1910 to his untimely death in 1920. Partisan of workers and peasants, a fighter for fundamental change in the social order. Introductio… OL2136255W
Colonial Latin America Colonial Latin America Lyman L. Johnson,Mark A. Burkholder "Textbook intended for college survey courses incorporates recent scholarship of much value for more advanced students. Uses standard political and economic approach enhanced by sharply focused secti… OL2686109W
The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-26 The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-26 John Lynch Spanish America was engulfed for nearly two decades in revolutions for independence that were sudden, violent, and universal. John Lynch provides a brilliant survey of the men and the movements durin… OL2715009W
Latin American History Through Its Art and Literature Latin American History Through Its Art and Literature Jack Child "Explores the history of Latin American [culture] through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer."--Introduction OL27331978W
Latin American underdevelopment Latin American underdevelopment James William Park "Discusses explanations commonly given in US for Latin American underdevelopment from 1870-1965. Explanations were based primarily on perceptions, and more often misperceptions, of the culture, peopl… OL3511404W
Weaving the Past Weaving the Past Susan Kellogg Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigen… OL3520522W
Uncivil Movements Uncivil Movements Leigh A. Payne xxx, 297 p. : 24 cm OL3900403W
Cultural identity and social liberation in Latin American thought Cultural identity and social liberation in Latin American thought Ofelia Schutte "El libro tiene dos grandes temas: la identidad cultural, sobre la que se expresan opiniones balanceadas entre los extremos posibles, y la 'liberación social', entendida en general como liberación … OL4273279W
Andrés Bello Andrés Bello Ivan Jaksic "This is the first biography of Andres Bello to appear in English. Bello, the most important intellectual of nineteenth-century Latin America, made enduring contributions to the fields of internation… OL4624282W
Las venas abiertas de America Latina Las venas abiertas de America Latina Galeano,Diego López,Eduardo Galeano,Galeano E. Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural… OL698173W
Memoria del fuego Memoria del fuego Eduardo Galeano A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into three parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the second the history of America unfolds from the 1… OL698192W
How to Write the History of the New World How to Write the History of the New World Jorge Canizares-Esguerra "In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new - that it had recently emerged from the waters - and that dangerous miasmas had … OL8444059W