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This towering volume presents the definitive account of the life and influence of South American revolutionary Simón Bolívar. Eminent historian John Lynch tells Bolívar’s story, sets his life in the context of his society and times, discusses the unique dynamics of his leadership, and explores the remarkable and enduring legacy of “The Liberator.”

This landmark book explores how Spain attempted to come to terms with the native peoples of the Americas in the late eighteenth century. Long after Spanish conquistadors had landed, Indians retained control of most of Spain’s American lands. Spaniards attempted a variety of solutions to their problems with “savages”—from gentle concessions to bloody wars.

 
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In this enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas, distinguished historian J. H. Elliott offers us history on a grand scale. He interweaves the histories of the two great Atlantic civilizations, providing rich insights into both while revealing aspects of their dual history that influence the Americas to this day.

This lavishly illustrated book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture and the multiplicity of ways that cities have been depicted by artists, map-makers, surveyors, and military engineers. The book also investigates the meanings invested in various representations of New and Old World cities and towns, including Toledo, Mexico City, Cuzco, Lima, and P...

Hernan Cortés’s Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés’s journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden’s new English translation, prepared from a fresh examination of the earliest surviving manuscript and of the f...

This magisterial book is the definitive history of the Spanish colonial period in North America. Authoritative and colorful, the book describes not only the Spaniards' impact on the lives, institutions, and environments of the native peoples, but also the effect of native North Americans on the societies and cultures of the Spanish settlers [from Florida to California].

In this acute and profoundly engaged exploration of Cuban history, British journalist Richard Gott illuminates the island’s entire revolutionary past, from pre-Columbian times to the present. He emphasizes little-known aspects of Cuba’s early centuries and provides an extraordinary account of Castro’s regime, its lonely survival in the post-Soviet years, and its expected future. ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, this timely book, the most intimate and dispassionate biography of Fidel Castro to date, offers a fresh assessment of the revolutionary leader. Written by the British ambassador to Cuba in the early 1990s, it chronicles the events of Castro’s extraordinary life and explores the contradiction between the private character and the public reputat...

In this wide-ranging book, Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century, tracing the interactions and influences among the nations of South, Central, and North America. He offers new insights into the past and future of inter-American relations.

In this masterly work, Lester D. Langley compares political and social histories of three revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish American struggle for independence. Langley explores the characteristics that distinguished each upheaval, and he shows how the legacies of the revolutionary ag...

This gripping book describes a little-known episode of racial violence in U.S. history: the Plan de San Diego uprising, which began in 1915 with a series of raids by ethnic Mexicans and ended when Texas Rangers staged a bloody counterinsurgency that took thousands of lives. The author demonstrates that these largely-forgotten events played a vital role in creating the Mexican-American civil rights...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, U.S. and Mexican elites sought to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of economic development.  This book explores how efforts to tame this fugitive landscape ran aground, telling a forgotten story of unfulfilled dreams with lessons for contemporary border relations.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, U.S. and Mexican elites sought to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of economic development.  This book explores how efforts to tame this fugitive landscape ran aground, telling a forgotten story of unfulfilled dreams with lessons for contemporary border relations.

A pioneering political and intellectual history of the Chicano leaders who emerged from the barrios of the Southwest between 1930 and 1960—Ignacio L. López, George I. Sanchez, Josefina Fierro de Bright, and others—and of their effort to capture first-class citizenship for Mexican Americans.  Drawing extensively on archival material and oral history, Mario T. García discu...

García explores the relationship of class, race, and labor in El Paso, documenting  the evolution of work, housing, education, politics, and culture in the Mexican community. Desert Immigrants makes a significant contribution not only to Chicano and Mexican history, but to the history of immigration and labor and urban studies as well.

A noted archeologist and anthropologist tells the story of the Tainos of the Northern Caribbean islands, from their prehistory on the South American continent to their rapid decline after contact with the Spanish explorers.

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas—Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade.

This beautifully illustrated book is the definitive guide to the mysteries and treasures of Machu Picchu, the New World’s most splendid archaeological site. Leading scholars discuss Machu Picchu’s place within the Inca empire, the mysteries surrounding its establishment and abandonment, and the discoveries made there since Hiram Bingham’s excavations in the early twentieth centur...

Rebecca West’s never-before-published Survivors in Mexico brings to readers a daring and provocative work by a major twentieth-century author. This book is an exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art, and culture, exploring the inner lives of figures ranging from Cortés and Montezuma to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky.

Reduced to ruins just five years after its founding, Columbus’s royal trading colony, La Isabela, was the first European settlement in America and the first site of sustained interaction between Europeans and the indigenous Taínos. Drawing on a decade-long archaeological investigation of La Isabela and on Columbus-era documents, this book tells the full story of the colony, the reasons ...

This important book documents the archaeological excavation of Christopher Columbus’s La Isabela, the first European colony in the New World. The artifacts and material remains of the short-lived town, dated precisely from 1493 to 1498, provide rich information about Euro-American cultural and technological development during a crucial transition era as well as significant clues to the cause...

This enlightening book examines the fluctuating status of dogs in Native America from prehistory to the present. Drawing on chronicles, ethnographies, archaeological reports, myths, biology, and a rich ray of visual materials, Schwartz investigates views about dogs—as profane, as deities, as eaters of excrement, and as valued food.

In this insightful book Howard Wiarda explores Latin American political culture and models of democracy and why they differ so greatly from those of the United States. Looking beyond the political history of the region, he considers social, economic, institutional, cultural, and religious influences on Iberian and Latin American civilizations from ancient times to the twentieth century.

The island of Puerto Rico has a severely distressed economy, is one of the most densely populated places on earth, and enjoys only limited political freedom.. In this book a distinguished Puerto Rican legal scholar and former government official discusses the island's century-old relationship with the United States and argues that the process of decolonization should begin immediately.

This book brings together a complete range of information on the cultural and natural history of Central America, the slim geographical bridge that separates two continents and two vast tropical oceans. Chapters by leading authorities discuss geological origins, differences between the surrounding oceans, the importance of natural corridors, the history of native people and colonizers from pre-Col...

This fascinating, richly illustrated book explores basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul but to what they experienced through the senses.

In the Dominican Republic, baseball is not only a game—it is a national obsession. Exported from and controlled by the United States, it is also a crucial arena of intercultural relations. In this fascinating book Alan M. Klein evokes the wild enthusiasm that Dominicans have for the game and shows how it mirrors the conflict they feel between allowing and resisting American hegemony in their...

Focusing on Argentina’s Dirty War of the 1970s, this important book addresses Hannah Arendt’s controversial argument that perpetrators of state- sponsored mass crimes are completely unaware of their wrongdoing, and therefore existing criminal laws do not adequately address them when they are on trial. Mark Osiel calls for a significant change in the laws of war to preserve both justice...

This beautifully illustrated book—the first in-depth study of the mesmerizing and colorful casta paintings from colonial Mexico—places them in social and historical context.

In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. He discusses the upheavals in Mexico (1910–1940), in Cuba (1959–1989), and in Nicaragua (1979–1990) and assesses their legacies, demonstrating how the revolutions’ consequences reverberated in arts and cultures...

This beautiful book—the first to explore the tradition of portraiture in Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present—features a fascinating array of over 200 works from fifteen countries. 

This book traces Gego’s fascinating exploration of line and space through a range of beautiful and emotionally charged line-based abstract drawings, prints, and wire sculptures.

The texts in this book are published in both English and Spanish (and in some cases German, which was Gego’s native language) and are preceded by introductory notes. Reproductions of some of the original texts, plans for unfulfilled projects, and previously unpublished photographs are also featured. Sabiduras and Other Texts will undoubtedly motivate students, scholars, and anyone int...

This exquisite book—presented in both English and Spanish—features the extraordinary drawings and prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces, and wire constructions of the German-born Venezuelan artist known as Gego.

Through a collection of never-before-published interviews with the artist, this book presents an unprecedented look at Soto’s remarkable contributions to Latin American art.

This lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the unique ceramic works of the Casas Grandes-Paquimé of northwest Mexico and adjoining areas of New Mexico and Arizona. Ninety superb examples of these vessel—created from A.D. 1200–1400—are examined and placed within the native southwestern cultural tradition.

Forty compelling sculptures made during the years between 300 B.C.E. and 400 C.E. in three major stylistic areas of West Mexico are the focus of this fascinating book, which discusses the works and explores their connections and distinctions.

This beautiful book presents silver objects, textiles, and other masterpieces of colonial Andean culture that evolved from the convergence of native tradition with Spanish influence.

This important volume—the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century—presents some fifty seminal essays and documents, including many previously unavailable in English.

This handsome volume discusses recent spectacular finds about the Olmec, precursors to the Maya and Aztec civilizations, providing a framework for understanding their history, art, and archaeology.

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Based on new discoveries from archaeological sites in Peru, this book analyzes Moche culture and presents the fascinating relationship between the visual arts and politics.

In 2004, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presented Inverted Utopias, a critically acclaimed exhibition focusing on the development of avant-garde art in Latin America from 1920 to 1970. At the time of the exhibition, a major symposium was held at the museum. This handsome book brings together texts and commentary by leading art historians and critics who participated in the event. A wide ...

This landmark book showcases the innovative works of Latin American avant-garde artists of the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 images, the volume features interpretations by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes by the artists themselves.

The first in-depth study of one of the most influential Latin American avant-garde artists, this book includes over 100 works of art, books, documents, and manuscripts from Xul Solar’s personal archive and public and private collections.

This original and thought-provoking book compares the art, lives, and achievements of three artists, each of whom became the preeminent twentieth-century female painter of her country: Emily Carr of Canada, Georgia O’Keeffe of the United States, and Frida Kahlo of Mexico. Important themes tie these artists’ visually disparate work together, the book shows, and viewing their work collec...

A symbol of power and prestige in ancient Peru, silver also held religious significance. This beautiful book presents objects of silver from several Peruvian cultures that thrived along the coastal and highland regions of the Andes from the first millennium B.C. to the Spanish conquest of 1532-34. These extremely rare and lovely objects, from items of personal adornment to tomb offerings, shed new...

This lavishly illustrated book presents a selection of more than eighty paintings, drawings, and sculptures by some two dozen artists represented in the acclaimed Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection of Latin American geometric abstract art. In both Spanish and English, the volume explores the major movements of geometric abstraction and also offers biographies of the artists and a selection of ...

This authoritative and beautiful book presents the first continuous narrative history of Latin American art from the years of the Independence movements in the 1820s up to the present day. Exploring both the indigenous roots and the colonial and post-colonial experiences of the various countries, the book investigates fascinating though little-known aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art...