Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, North America, South America, Venezuela
Tag: Economic history
Contemporary Latin America
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Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala
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Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Chewing away a boom
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A fascinating history of chicle production sheds light on the fragility of extractive industries in Latin America
Categories: Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, United States
Chopping and chewing: Q&A with Jennifer Mathews
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The author of Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley answers questions about gum use over the ages and the magnates who built fortunes upon it
Categories: Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, United States
Brazil: A Century of Change
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Categories: Brazil, South America
Open Veins of Latin America
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Categories: North America, South America, United States, Uruguay
Blood and snow in the Andes
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A trio of titles about cocaine trafficking turn the spotlight on the Andean ‘war on drugs’ and whether the Obama presidency can resist the US reflex to continue using force
Categories: Bolivia, Colombia, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Strange alliances in a search for identity
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A key theme threading throughout The Ecuador Reader is diversity amid the quest for unity
Categories: Ecuador, South America
Sugarlandia Revisited
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Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, Puerto Rico, United States