Aconcagua: The Invention of Mountaineering on America’s Highest Peak, Joy Logan, 2011, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Tag: Social history
Voices of the Enslaved
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Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, Gloria García Rodríguez, translated by Nancy L Westgate, 2011, University of North Carolina Press
People of Faith
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People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Mariza de Carvalho Soares, translated by Jerry D Metz, 2012, Duke University Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
Havana Beyond the Ruins
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Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings after 1989, Edited by Anke Birkenmaier and Esther Whitfield, 2011, Duke University Press
Feast of inequality
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A collection of essays that weaves together diverse approaches to inequality in Latin America provides a toolbox of sharp instruments with which to dissect the region’s condition
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, 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
Spirit level
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John Lynch’s exceptional history of religion in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the millennial tension between tradition and modernity
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, 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, Uruguay, Venezuela
Dignifying Argentina
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Dignifying Argentina: Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption, Eduardo Elena, 2011, University of Pittsburgh Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Revolutionary Medicine
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Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba, P Sean Brotherton, 2012, Duke University Press
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
Beyond the Lettered City
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Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, Joanne Rappaport and Tom Cummins, 2012, Duke University Press
Categories: Bolivia, Peru, South America
Between Guerrillas and the State
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Between the Guerrillas and the State: The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship and Identity in the Colombian Amazon, María Clemencia Ramírez, 2011, Duke University Press
Categories: Colombia, South America