Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st pbk, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 443 pages. Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America's twentieth century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution/Bureau of American Ethnology, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. 664 pages plus 112 b&w plates in rear. Extensive folding maps, plates. text illustrations. The mounds of Marajo & other sites. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 167. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 603 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.
Softcover. London/NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when that commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber from Southeast Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to once again produce a significant rubber crop in Brazil. Dean traces the numerous attempts to plant rubber in Brazil, including the ill-fated Ford estates, and others established by the major multinational tire companies. He also analyzes the struggles of the Brazilian government to foster rubber development, in the hope of obtaining a domestic source of supply for national industries that are now dependent on imports from Southeast Asia. Bookseller label on rear cover otherwise clean.
Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 493 pages. This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It is about peace processes, aimed at securing an end to military hostilities in the context of agreements that touch on some of the principal political, economic, social, and ethnic imbalances that led to conflict in the first place. The book presents a carefully structured comparative analysis of six Latin American countries--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru--which experienced guerrilla warfare that outlasted the end of the Cold War. The book explores in detail the unique constellation of national and international events that allowed some wars to end in negotiated settlement, one to end in virtual defeat of the insurgents, and the others to rage on. The aim of the book is to identify the variables that contribute to the success or failure of a peace dialogue. Clean copy.
Softcover. Ausyin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmstrom to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems--the intellectual achievement that gave rise to Mesoamerican civilization and culture. Malmstrom posits that the 260-day calendar marked the interval between passages of the sun at its zenith over Izapa, an ancient ceremonial center in the Soconusco region of Mexico's Pacific coastal plain. He goes on to show how the calendar developed by the Zoque people of the region in the fourteenth century B.C. gradually diffused through Mesoamerica into the so-called "Olmec metropolitan area" of the Gulf coast and beyond to the Maya in the east and to the plateau of Mexico in the west. Clean copy.
Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime emerged. Using published accounts and array of archival sources, he focuses on questions of subalternization, meaning making, copying, and exotization, which proved crucial to both the Spaniards and the Incas. On the one hand, he re-inserts different epistemologies into the conquest narrative, making central to the plot often-dismissed, discrepant stories such as books that were expected to talk and year-long attacks that could only be launched under a full moon. On the other hand, he questions the dominant image of a clear distinction between Inca and Spaniard, showing instead that on the battlefield as much as in everyday arenas such as conversion, market exchanges, politics, and land tenure, the parties blurred into each other in repeated instances of mimicry. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. 986 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps (some fold-out) and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. This is Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143; 818 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Paris, Corbet Aine Libraire, 1st Thus, 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 leather bound volumes. FRENCH TEXT. Black & white illustrations, each volume with fold-out map in rear. Volume 1 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. 1" piece of leather missing at bottom of spine. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing throughout. Volume 2 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. Marbled endpapers. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Both volumes with clean, unmarked texts.
Hardcover. New York, Wiley & Halsted, 2nd Ed., 1822, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates - 2 illustrations in vol. I and 4 illustrations in vol. II, but lacks the map, an illustration at page 20, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some dealers describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. University Press of Colorado, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme. Name on front fly leaf other wise clean.
Softcover. Lima, Librerias A. B. C., Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover with light marginal wear to wraps. Bright photograph, Young Hiram Bingham in Front of Tent, to front wrap in bw. Full page, full color photographs throughout. Very clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. np, self-published, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt title on spine, ship drawing on front cover. 280 pages. A collection of articles and a manuscript written by Julia Louisa Keyes (1828-1877). She was the daughter of novelist Caroline Lee Hentz and wife of Dr. John W. Keyes of Montgomery, Ala. The collection is a typescript of "Our Life in Brazil," a combination of diary, reminiscences, and letter copies, compiled in 1874 by Julia Louisa Hentz Keyes about her experiences in Brazil, 1867-1870. Keyes and her husband emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War. This volume was compiled by Nancy Hamlin Huber on the 100th anniversary of that first voyage. Blank prelim page gone, clean copy. Scarce.
Softcover. London, Latin America Bureau, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 131 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. How did Manuel Noriega, the CIA's most important agent in Central America, become the US administration's most wanted criminal? Why did 22,000 US troops invade Panama, to arrest a man who had been a staunch ally of the US? Was his involvement in the drug trade the real reason for General Noriega's downfall? Panama: Made in the USA explores the unanswered questions behind the invasion of December 1989 and looks at the turbulent history of US-Panamanian relations, in particular the bitter struggle for control of the Panama Canal. It analyzes the economic and geo-strategic importance of a country literally created by and for the US government. Looking at Panama since the invasion, the authors explore the challenge facing the US-installed Endara government as rebuilds a country shattered by invasion and US sanctions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Skira, 1st, 2006-09-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 224 pages profusely illustrated in color. This book describes the grandeur and richness of the numerous civilizations predating the Incas, including the Paracas, Nazca, Recuay, Sican-Lambayeque, Moche-Sipan, and Chimu cultures, as well as the great Inca civilization. Included in the book are the important sites and landscapes representative of the three major ecological levels of Peru, as well as a general view and a historical perspective of the pre-Columbian cultures of Peru.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 488 pages, b&w illustrations. Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith. Some fading to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 2nd pr., 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages with b&w illustrations. A thrilling account of one of history's greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon--river of darkness, pathway to gold. Interweaving eyewitness accounts of the quest with newly uncovered details, Buddy Levy reconstructs the seminal journey that has electrified adventurers ever since, as Orellana became the first European to navigate and explore the entire length of the world's largest river. Levy gives a long-overdue account of the native populations--some peaceful and welcoming, offering sustenance and life-saving guidance, others ferociously hostile, subjecting the invaders to gauntlets of unremitting attack and intimations of terrifying rituals. And here is the Amazon itself, a powerful presence whose every twist and turn held the promise of new wonders both natural and man-made, as well as the ever-present risk of death--a river that would hold Orellana in its irresistible embrace to the end of his life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Top edge dyed. Some underlining throughout. Deckled edges. Blue cover boards, black title on spine and front cover board.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative blue cloth with gilt lettering and red and black stamped designs. 444 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. Over 100 b&w illustrations by the Harper stable of artists: mostly Thure de Thulstrup along with a number of maps. Front cover with small area of discoloration, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise clean, binding solid.
Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Provides new Latin American-centric scholarship, not only about surrealism's impact on the region but also about the region's impact on surrealism. It reconsiders the relation between art and anthropology, casts new light on the aesthetics of 'primitivism,' and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blue cloth with embossed decorative vignette and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of author with tissue guard. Folding map indicating the Toltec Migrations, with four routes marked in blue, green, red and yellow by hand. Charnay, a French traveler and archaeologist, is known for pioneering photography to document his discoveries. Profusely illustrated with some 150 engravings, many of them full page, documenting the findings and views encountered on Charnay's journey, including maps and plans. Like many 1887 printings, lacks last plate of a mask found at Mitla on page 512. Sliver of blue cloth gone from top of spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Corner wear to covers, rear fly leaf missing.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Preface, Introduction, Chapters on: The United States and the Dominican Republic to 1965: Background to Intervention; The Origins of the 1965 Dominican Crisis: Setting the Stage; The Decision to Intervene; Deploying the Troops; and Explaining the Dominican Intervention. Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the Dominican Republic and the United States, on rare access to classified U.S. government documents, and on his own first-hand experiences during the crisis, Abraham F. Lowenthal rejects official, liberal, and radical accounts of the intervention. Instead, he explains it as the product of fundamental premises, of decision-making procedures, and of bureaucratic politics. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering on black title blocks, 650 pages. "This is the only complete history of the Latin American Republics that takes into account the important subject of inter-American relations in the present war {World War II}. It brings Latin American history down to the conferences in which Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles helped to cement North and South solidarity." The book presents, in separate chapters, the history of each of the twenty Latin American nations since independence. Bookplate and name on front endpapers, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Prospect Heights IL, Waveland Press, Revised Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages. An account of a massive earthquake in the small city of Yungay, Peru in 1970. The author lived in the area and documents the survivors efforts to rebuild. Clean copy.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 299 pages, b&w illustrations. Brooke Larson's interpretive analysis of the history of Andean peasants reveals the challenges of nation making in the republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during the volatile nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were postcolonial transitions more turbulent than in the Andes, where communal indigenous roots grew deep and where the "Indian problem" seemed so discouraging to liberalizing states. The analysis raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism, racism, and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary "republics without citizens" over the nineteenth century.
Hardcover. Miami, University Press of Florida , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 186 pages. Under Carter and Reagan, US foreign policy toward Central America failed. In this intriguing study, Dario Moreno explains how policy in those administrations was made, tracing its failure to a foreign policy establishment plagued by division and lack of consensus. Moreno shows that in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, and Cuba, Carter and Reagan played out two dramatically different Third World strategies and that neither Carter's liberal internationalists nor Reagan's rollback theorists understood the reality changes in those countries. Moreno's study draws authenticity from his interviews and discussions with a dozen key Central American policy makers in each of the two administrations and with eminent political figures in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, among them, Patricia Derian, assistant secretary of state for human rights under Carter, Elliot Abrams, Reagan's assistant secretary of state for human rights, and former president of Honduras, Jose Azocona. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Atheneum, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages. The roles of planter and slave in a changing plantation society in Brazil. Clean, bright copy.
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