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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
T. J. English
William Morrow
William Morrow
In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In ...
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Born in Blood And Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, Second Edition
John Charles Chasteen
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Made up of 20 very different countries, Latin America has sometimes been treated as though it were a homogeneous unit, one mired in poverty and political instability. University of North Carolina scholar John Charles Chasteen's sweeping history of...
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Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition
Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Now in its sixth edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Thoroughly updated and revised, the book includes a new chapter on the history of Colombia from the wars of independence to the...
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Readers familiar with immigration history as told in books like Roger Daniels's Coming to America will experience a sense of déjà vu with Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez. The immigrant experience is a constant in American life; although the...
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the...
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The Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner
Vintage
Vintage
In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and...
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