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Hardback. Reveals both routine and behind-the-scenes practices that have characterized International Monetary Fund-Latin American relations in general and IMF-Argentina relations in particular, from 1944 to the present Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPSN; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439909096
ISBN
9781439909096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.18

Paperback. How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America the authors show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Latin America have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economics since World War II Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JFFS; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 243 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226144269
ISBN
9780226144269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

paperback. The nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose and identity. This book offers a cultural history of one nation's efforts to determine its nature, its destiny, and its place among the nations of the world. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520082847
ISBN
9780520082847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.99
€ 42.31

Paperback. Invisible Wars examines the impact of three centuries of colonial evangelization on indigenous religious practices in Central Mexico by focusing on clandestinely produced Nahua and Zapotec texts, trial records, and native resistance to disciplinary and punitive campaigns. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HRAM9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804788656
ISBN
9780804788656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardback. Invisible Wars examines the impact of three centuries of colonial evangelization on indigenous religious practices in Central Mexico by focusing on clandestinely produced Nahua and Zapotec texts, trial records, and native resistance to disciplinary and punitive campaigns. Num Pages: 400 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773287
ISBN
9780804773287
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.48

Paperback. Long forgotten in England, Providence Island is a microcosm of the 400-year-old Atlantic story, a narrative of colonial struggle and empire, slavery and drugs, pirates and puritans and amazing reversals of fortunes. At once intimate and global, this book casts new light on the part England played in the making of the modern world. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; HBJK; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Explore Books (London)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911184041
ISBN
9781911184041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico. Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292737471
ISBN
9780292737471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. Presents a portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. This book brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. It shows us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, and life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099285229
ISBN
9780099285229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardback. An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art's connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being. Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 243 pages, 137 b/w photos, 15 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; ACBK; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 285 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 956.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292726260
ISBN
9780292726260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. Japanese migration to Latin America began in the late nineteenth century, and today the continent is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed scholarship with personal histories, this title offers a study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KL; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071447
ISBN
9780252071447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. In this volume Levi-Strauss explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels are interwoven with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Translator(s): Chorier, B. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLS; HPCF; HRQ; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226474823
ISBN
9780226474823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.02

Paperback. Only one tribe of American Indians is known ever to have successfully revolted against the empire of Spain and to have thwarted all subsequent attempts by the Spaniards to reconquer them: the Jivaro (hee'-va-ro), the untsuri suarii of eastern Ecuador. This book is about their culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24ill. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 49.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520050655
ISBN
9780520050655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.93

Paperback. Offers a vivid and nuanced picture of working for social justice while trying to remain true to people's traditions Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 34 b&w and 10 color photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL9; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780292745261
ISBN
9780292745261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Shows how in Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing and the arbitration of normal killing in the name of social order are actually conducted by two groups the police and organized crime both operating according to parallel logics of murder. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 b/w, 1 map, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285712
ISBN
9780520285712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Hardcover. This text examines the domination by the automobile industry of the local economy in Argentina's second largest city, Cordoba, and the role played by the automobile workers' unions which resulted in the 1969 Cordobazo, one of the largest working-class protests in Latin American post-war history. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 line illustrations, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JPWF; KNDR; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674508514
ISBN
9780674508514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.14
€ 93.92

Paperback. Sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. This book reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 60 b/w, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 1KLCM; JFFE; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282759
ISBN
9780520282759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Hardback. Sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. This book reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 60 b/w, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 1KLCM; JFFE; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 842.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282742
ISBN
9780520282742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 72.45

Paperback. After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Second Edition, Updated Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306902
ISBN
9780226306902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.20

Paperback. An all-encompassing Marxist assessment of the economics and politics of the Latin American Left from 1990-2015 Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTF; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745399539
ISBN
9780745399539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. The haunting story of the destruction of a magnificent civilisation Num Pages: 544 pages, Section: 8, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Little, Brown
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition. 1 in number line
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749929930
ISBN
9780749929930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. First extended historical account of the latino theatre programme Num Pages: 96 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; AN; GTB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7128 x 5499 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780895511430
ISBN
9780895511430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot. Num Pages: 240 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286240
ISBN
9780099286240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.81

Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 182 x 16. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590330623
ISBN
9781590330623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.11
€ 76.72

Paperback. Based on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago. Num Pages: 392 pages, 72 illustrations, 7 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; CFC; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350446
ISBN
9780822350446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

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