Results for: Latin American History & Studies
Five Hundred Years after Columbus: Proceedings of the 47th International Congress of Americanists.
Andrews V., E. Wyllys, and Lizabeth Oster Mozzillo.
New Orleans: Tulane University/Middle American Research Institute, 1994.
Very good quarto hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing along edges of boards. Heavy bumping to upper corners of panels. Slight twist to binding. 293 pages with index.
Price: $30.00
Aztec Imperial Strategies.
Berdan, Frances F.; Richard E. Blanton; Elizabeth Hill Boone; Mary G. Hodge; Michael E. Smith; and Emily Umberger.
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996.
Folio-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Light scuffing overall and faint smudges to back cover. Light smudge to fore-edges of pages. 392 pages with maps, illustrations, tables, notes, 4 appendices (1. data on political organization of the Aztec Empire's central provinces, 2. data on market activities and production specialization of Tlatoani centers, 3. material remains in the central provinces, 4. province descriptions), bibliography, and 2 indices. A collection of essays on how the Aztec's governed their empire.
Price: $55.00
The True History of the Conquest of Mexico. March of America Facsimile Series, 7.
Bernal Diaz del Castillo.
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966.
Quarto sized. Light wear to edges of covers with bump to lower corner of front cover. Light brownish scuffing to covers. 515 pages. This work is based on translation of Maurice Keatinge (1800) of Diaz's classic account of the fall of the Aztec Empire. originally written in 1568.
Price: $25.00
Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of Twentieth-Century Latin America.
Biron, Rebecca E.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in red binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to the edges of the covers with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Boards have light scuffing. 181 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at manliness and violence in Latin American fiction.
Price: $20.00
A Battle of the Titans : the Slave Revolution in the Americas.
Daguillard, Fritz.
Washington DC: the author, 1991.
This quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A catalog for an exhibition developed by Detroit Community leader Julio Bateau and Washtington DC and the author, a Washington DC art collector. The exhibition covers the successful revolt of slaves against the French and others on the island of Saint Dominigue in 1791, evenentually resulting in the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This book focuses on Haiti.
Price: $30.00
Spiritualist Healers in Mexico: Successes and Failures of Alternative Therapeutics.
Finkler, Kaja.
New York: Praeger, 1985..
First edition. Very good hardcover in yellow binding without dust jacket. Light wear along edges of boards with minor bumping to head of spine. Some light scuffing to covers. 256 pages with 4 appendices, figures, tables, endnotes, bibliography, glossary, and index.
Price: $25.00
Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers: The Illusion of Power in Sixteenth-Century Peru.
Gabai, Rafael Varon. Translated by Javier Flores Espinoza.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. The dj has wear along the edges and light scuffing to the covers. 352 pages with figures, tables, notes, 2 appendices, bibliography, and index. A look at Pizarro's conquests in Peru in terms of Spanish government and his family's exploitation of region.
Price: $25.00
Good Neighbor Diplomacy : United States Policies in Latin America 1933 - 1095.
Gellman, IRwin F.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to eges and corners. Slight foxing at page edges. 296 p. w/ index, extensive notes. A solid study of US relations under FDR with Latin America, including a discussion of Nazi penetration of the area.
Price: $45.00
Mexican Diversity of Fauna.
Gil, Patricio Robles, editor. Text by Gerardo Ceballos and Fulvio Eccardi.
Cemex, 1993..
First American edition. Very good quarto (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards with minor bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj also has some light wear along the edges with a bit of scuffing and scratching to the covers. Few black streaks on the back cover of dj. Slight smoky smell to the book. 191 pages with illustrations and listing of scientific names. A nicely illustrated book featuring brief discussions of invertebrates of all types (marine and land), fishes, reptiles & amphibians, birds, and mammals in Mexico.
Price: $60.00
Influencia Militar en las Ciudades del Reino Chile. Academia Chilena de la Historia.
Guarda, Gabriel, O. S. B.
Santiago: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 1967.
Good softcover. Wear and light rubbing to edges of covers with browning and scuffing. Waterstains on lower corner of front cover and along lower portion of spine on both covers. Page edges are browned. Name of previous owner and date along with a note indicating that this work was a gift from the author on front free endpaper in blue ink. Laid in is a card signed by the author and a letter from the author to the previous owner. 55 pages with footnotes and maps/illustrations.
Price: $65.00
In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco Leon de la Barra and the Mexican Revolution.
Henderson, Peter V. N.
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2000..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of the boards with some bumping to the heel of the spine. Dj has some minor wear to the edges of the covers with a bit of scuffing also. 338 pages with a few illustrations, 5 appendices (1. the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez, May 21, 1911, 2. De la Barra's inaugural address, May 25, 1911, 3. list of governors, 1910-1911, 4. the vice-presidential election, October 1, 1911, 5. De la Barra's farewell address, November 4, 1911), endnotes, bibliography, and index. An examination of the life and political career of Francisco Leon de la Barra, the interim preseident of Mexico in 1911 and his impact on the Mexican Revolution
Price: $20.00
El Obrerismo en Puerto Rico, Epoca de Santiago Iglesias (1896 - 1905) : Guia Cronologica del Movimiento Obrero Organizado y del Partido Socialista y Obrero de Puerto Rica.
Igualdad Iglesias de Pagan.
Palencia de Castilla: Ediciones Juan Ponce de Leon, 1973.
Light wear and rubbing to edges of covers with minor tears and some slight folsing of edges that overlap main binding. Covers are also slightly scuffed. Few pages have slight tears on fore-edges. 398 pages with chronology, references after each chapter, and appendix. A work on anarchism and socialism in Puerto Rico.
Price: $45.00
A Calendar of Rochambeau Papers at the University of Florida Libraries.
Monti, Laura V., editor.
Gainesville: University of Florida Libraries, 1972.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and twist to binding. Scuffing to covers. Name written in blue ink on front pastedown endpaper. Pages are lightly browned. 329 pages with foldout map, endnotes, index, and list of sources consulted. A look at the writings of Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, Vicomte de Rochambeau (d. 1813), a French soldier perhaps best known for his brutal attempts to surpress the rebellion in Haiti.
Price: $20.00
Geography of the Central Andes: A Handbook to Accompany the LA PAZ Sheet of the Map of Hispanic America on the Millionth Scale.
Ogilvie, Alan G.
New York: The American Geographical Society, 1922..
1922 edition, first (?). Good hardcover without dust jacket. Heavy wear and rubbing to edges of the boards with heavy bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of the covers. Tear in binding on head of spine. Foxing/browning on spine and scuffing on covers. Foxing on page edges, endpapers, and on some plates. Names of previous owners on front free endpaper. 240 pages with illustrations, footnotes, 4 appendices (1. social and religious organization of the Plateau Indians, 2. the problem of Tacna and Arica, 3. selected bibliography, 4. conversion table), and index. An interesting work on the geography and culture of the Central Andes region. The LA PAZ sheet of the Map of Hispanic America on a Millionth scale is not included with the book.
Price: $20.00
Amazon Worlds : Peoples and Cultures of Ecuador's Amazon Region.
Paymal, Noemi, and Catalina Sosa.
Quito, Ecuador: Sinchi Sacha Foundation, 1993.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and on corners of covers with minor scuffing to covers. 205 pages with illustrations, maps, appendices, and index. A colorful look at the archaeology and ethnology of the tribes in Ecuador's Amazon region.
Price: $75.00
Patterns of Contention in Mexican History.
Rodriguez O., Jaime E. editor.
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1992.
Octavo in brick cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Very slight wear to edges and corners. Illustrated endpapers. 393 p. w/illustrations, bibliography, index. A collection of 14 essays, some in Spanish and some English, on struggles in Mexican history from the 1660's forward.
Price: $45.00
Spanish - Guarani Relations in Early Colonial Paraguay. Anthropological Papers Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan no. 9.
Service, Elman R.
Ann Arbor: Museum of Anthropology and the University of Michigan Press, 1954.
Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Slight tanning to edges of textblock. 106 p. w/ bibliography. Focuses on the period of 1537 - 1620.
Price: $25.00
Black into White : Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought.
Skidmore, Thomas E.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with crinkling on heel of spine and some minor scuffing to covers. 299 pages with notes and indices. A study of Brazilian race relations.
Price: $30.00
