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Yaqui Resistance and Survival
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Yaqui Resistance and Survival
The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Fall 2016

Eclipse of the Assassins
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Eclipse of the Assassins
The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía
Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley
Fall 2015

The Lima Inquisition
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The Lima Inquisition
The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru
Ana E. Schaposchnik
Fall 2015

The Social Origins of Human Rights
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The Social Origins of Human Rights
Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s Oil Capital, 1919–2010
Luis van Isschot
Spring 2015

Cubans in Angola
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Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Christine Hatzky
Fall 2014

Memory’s Turn
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Memory’s Turn
Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
Rebecca J. Atencio
Spring 2014

Almost Home
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Almost Home
A Brazilian American’s Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Immigration
H. B. Cavalcanti
Fall 2012

How Difficult It Is to Be God
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How Difficult It Is to Be God
Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999
Carlos Iván Degregori, Edited and with an introduction by Steve J. Stern
Fall 2012

Negotiating Empire
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Negotiating Empire
The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico, 1898–1952
Solsiree del Moral
Fall 2012

Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
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Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
Edited by Jessica Stites Mor
Fall 2012

Beyond Displacement
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Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Molly Todd
Fall 2010

Colonial Crucible
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Colonial Crucible
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
Spring 2009

Seaway to the Future
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Seaway to the Future
American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
Alexander Missal
Fall 2008

San Juan
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San Juan
Memoir of a City
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, Translated by Peter Grandbois
Spring 2007

The Inferno
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The Inferno
A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile
Luz Arce, Translated by Stacey Alba Skar
Spring 2004

Preso sin nombre, celda sin número
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Preso sin nombre, celda sin número
Jacobo Timerman, Con textos de Arthur Miller y Ariel Dorfman / With forewords by Arthur Miller and Ariel Dorfman
Spring 2004

Minor Omissions
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Minor Omissions
Children in Latin American History and Society
Edited by Tobias Hecht
Fall 2002

We Alone Will Rule
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We Alone Will Rule
Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency
Sinclair Thomson
Fall 2002

Indigenism
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Indigenism
Ethnic Politics in Brazil
Alcida Rita Ramos
Fall 1998

Pathways of Memory and Power
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Pathways of Memory and Power
Ethnography and History among an Andean People
Thomas A. Abercrombie
Spring 1997

The Limits of Racial Domination
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The Limits of Racial Domination
Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720
R. Douglas Cope
Spring 1994

Spanish Peru, 1532–1560
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Spanish Peru, 1532–1560
A Social History
James Lockhart
Spring 1994

Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
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Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
Huamanga to 1640
Steve J. Stern
Spring 1994

My History, Not Yours
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My History, Not Yours
The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography
Genaro M. Padilla
Fall 1993

Confronting Historical Paradigms
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Confronting Historical Paradigms
Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia C. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern
Spring 1993

Thanks to God and the Revolution
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Thanks to God and the Revolution
The Oral History of a Nicaraguan Family
Dianne Walta Hart
Fall 1990

Neither Black Nor White
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Neither Black Nor White
Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Carl Degler
Fall 1986

The Assassination of Gaitán
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The Assassination of Gaitán
Public Life and Urban Violence in Colombia
Herbert Braun
Fall 1985

Latin American History
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Latin American History
A Teaching Atlas
Cathryn L. Lombardi and John V. Lombardi with K. Lynn Stoner
Fall 1983

The People and the King
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The People and the King
The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781
John Leddy Phelan
Spring 1978