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Discover how an ancient pre-Inca civilization mastered extreme environmental engineering two miles above sea level. Perfect for your morning commute, this immersive historical deep-dive transports you directly to the windswept Andean altiplano. Experience the awe-inspiring reality of a thriving...

The most highly regarded and affordable history of Latin America for our times. Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cultural analyses of Latin American society....

La casa blanca es la metáfora del patio trasero del Estado que nos adentra en las consecuencias de la tortura sexual en la voz de tres sobrevivientes.

In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture since the 1960s that has challenged this omission in collective memory....

Historia oculta de la conquista de América pretende rescatar aquellos hechos que tuvieron relevancia para el desarrollo de la conquista de América....

Transform your daily commute into an immersive historical adventure detailing the rise and fall of the Inca Empire. High above the Urubamba River, a breathtaking royal sanctuary was carved into rugged Andean peaks, surviving both nature's wrath and Spanish conquest. Experience the awe-inspiring...

Ruben Soto gives us an insightful and informative history of the leading Spanish-language television network in the United States....

Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys and young men of color in schools-but what about the politics of empowerment and inclusion? In Good Boys, Bad Hombres, Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a...

Experience an epic historical saga of clashing empires and indigenous resilience that forged a vibrant, modern nation. From volcanic landscapes to towering ancient city-states, embark on a turbulent journey through three thousand years of conquest, survival, and cultural revolution. Perfect for...

The Turkish Lover, the third installment of Puerto Rican writer Esmeralda Santiago’s memoirs, is the story of her love affair with Ulvi Dogan, a Turkish man 17 years older than her....

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and...

For the uninitiated, the quinceaera celebrates the passage of a 15-year-old girl into adulthood: It's a bit bat mitzvah with a dash of debutante ball, and loaded with the same potential for hilarity and adolescent angst....

Experience a gripping military history of the violent clash of civilizations that deeply reshaped the global landscape. Perfect for an educational commute, this dramatic narrative moves beyond dry timelines to explore the brutal realities of imperialism. Witness the devastating fall of vast...

Se cumplen cinco siglos de la Conquista de México, y a lo largo de este tiempo Hernán Cortés ha desempeñado un claro papel en el imaginario colectivo de la nación: el de villano. Sin embargo, para Christian Duverger esta apreciación no podría ser más injusta....

Uncover a thrilling historical mystery where a glittering imperial lost treasure vanishes on a remote Pacific island. Perfect for an immersive commute or an armchair adventure, this cinematic deep-dive transports you to the collapsing Spanish empire in nineteenth-century South America...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee...

An “eminently readable and beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal. When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, champion of...

In a series of 10 essays, spanning five centuries of history, beginning with the conquest of Mexico by Hermán Cortés and ending in 1992 San Francisco, Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California...

«La historia la escriben los vencedores», sentenció el escritor inglés George Orwell. Esto bien lo saben los mapuches. ¿Cómo se entiende si no que un pueblo guerrero en el siglo dieciséis, diplomático en el diecisiete, rico y ganadero en el dieciocho y diecinueve, pasara a ser más...