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The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers "a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy" (New York Daily News).
Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene...
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A history and analysis of the United States' involvement in the deposition of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and the consequences.
Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences...
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This is a tale that might be told around a campfire, night after night in the midst of a military campaign. The kinetic and garrulous Pancho Villa talking on and on about battles and men; bursting out with hearty, masculine laughter; weeping unashamed for fallen comrades; casually mentioning his hotheadedness - "one of my violent outbursts" - which sent one, two, or a dozen men before the firing squad; recounting amours; and always, always protesting...
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The years 1913-1920 were the most critical years of the Mexican Revolution. This study of the period, a sequel to the author's “Mexican Revolution: Genesis under Madero”, traces Mexico's course through the anguish of civil war to the establishment of a tenuous new government, the codification of revolutionary aspirations in a remarkable constitution, and the emergence of an activist leadership determined to propel Mexico into the select company...
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The history of a dictatorship's demise-and the many power struggles that followed on the rocky road to democracy in early twentieth-century Mexico.
The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and ambitious sociopolitical experiments in modern times. This history by Charles C. Cumberland addresses the early years of this period, as the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz was finally overthrown and he was driven into exile due to the...
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The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. “The Wind That Swept Mexico”, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Díaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years...
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Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José...
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Fascinating anthropological study of a group of Kickapoo Indians who left their Wisconsin homeland for Mexico over a century ago. Focus on why they left, why they settled in northern Mexico, how they live. 26 illustrations. Map. Introduction. Bibliography. Index.
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The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man-Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí, he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life...
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When the Brazilian military overthrew President João Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a "100 percent Brazilian movement." It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United States had an invisible but pervasive part in the coup.
Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and Kennedy presidential libraries, Phyllis Parker...
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Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness and enslavement of blacks and the economic and matrimonial subservience of women that the book was not published in Cuba until 1914, seventy-three years...
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The renowned writer describes coming of age during the violent Mexican Revolution and living as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.
Pillar of Salt is Novo's incomparable memoir of growing up during and after the Mexican Revolution, shuttling north to escape the Zapatistas, only to see his uncle murdered at home by the troops of Pancho Villa, and his initiations into literature and love with colorful, poignant, complicated men...
19) Dreamtigers
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Explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.
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