Intro to Latin America

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Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America 3.92 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
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A History of the Cuban Revolution
A History of the Cuban Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America 4.14 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas 4.20 avg rating — 6,886 ratings
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Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup
Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup 3.97 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America 3.88 avg rating — 724 ratings
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Popol Vuh
Popol Vuh
by: Anonymous
3.76 avg rating — 7,498 ratings
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela 4.12 avg rating — 979 ratings
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The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics 4.16 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Salvador Allende Reader : Chile's Voice of Democracy
Salvador Allende Reader : Chile's Voice of Democracy 4.25 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Cuba’s Revolutionary World
Cuba’s Revolutionary World 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Americas: A Hemispheric History
The Americas: A Hemispheric History 3.27 avg rating — 214 ratings
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His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara
His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Central America: A Nation Divided
Central America: A Nation Divided 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Victor: The Life and Music of Victor Jara
Victor: The Life and Music of Victor Jara
by: Joan Jara
4.55 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism 4.05 avg rating — 1,297 ratings
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Black in Latin America
Black in Latin America 4.27 avg rating — 290 ratings
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The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama
The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama 3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
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My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography 4.20 avg rating — 3,473 ratings
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Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate
Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw 3.98 avg rating — 19,107 ratings
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The Penguin History of Latin America
The Penguin History of Latin America 3.79 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Don Pepe: A political biography of José Figueres of Costa Rica
Don Pepe: A political biography of José Figueres of Costa Rica 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America
Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America 3.87 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The FARC: The Longest Insurgency
The FARC: The Longest Insurgency 3.95 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence
Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Selected Writings
Selected Writings 4.18 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States
The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America
The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now 4.13 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics
Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America
Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America 4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America 3.89 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador 3.87 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America 3.99 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America
Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana 4.17 avg rating — 215 ratings
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A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America 4.05 avg rating — 740 ratings
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas & Yucatan
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas & Yucatan 4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America
Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America 3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures
Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series)
Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman
Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman 4.43 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) 4.11 avg rating — 63 ratings
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A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico
Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Arts and Crafts of Mexico
Arts and Crafts of Mexico really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico 3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
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So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848
So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848 3.97 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Human Body Human Spirit: A Portrait of Ancient Mexico
Human Body Human Spirit: A Portrait of Ancient Mexico 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico
La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico
by: Jon Sack
4.04 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico
Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico 4.04 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico
Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico 3.54 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Whiskers, Tails & Wings: Animal Folktales from Mexico
Whiskers, Tails & Wings: Animal Folktales from Mexico really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico: Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia
Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico: Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mexico: Biography of Power
Mexico: Biography of Power 4.27 avg rating — 638 ratings
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico 4.06 avg rating — 3,913 ratings
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Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
History of the Conquest of Mexico 4.17 avg rating — 768 ratings
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Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs 3.91 avg rating — 533 ratings
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National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico 3.97 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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Art Across the Ages: Ancient Mexico
Art Across the Ages: Ancient Mexico 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico 4.34 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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The Incas: The Royal Commentaries on the Inca
The Incas: The Royal Commentaries on the Inca 3.65 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Lost City of the Incas
Lost City of the Incas 3.52 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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DK Eyewitness Books: Aztec, Inca & Maya: Discover the World of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas―
DK Eyewitness Books: Aztec, Inca & Maya: Discover the World of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas― 3.93 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Conquest of the Incas
The Conquest of the Incas 4.12 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Inca Mummy!
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Inca Mummy! 4.03 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca
Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca 4.02 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes
The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes 4.01 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Maya Art and Architecture
Maya Art and Architecture 3.86 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest
Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest 4.43 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 3.75 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Maya
The Maya 3.87 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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Lost Cities of the Maya
Lost Cities of the Maya 3.45 avg rating — 78 ratings
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!: Fortunes You'd Rather Not Tell
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!: Fortunes You'd Rather Not Tell 3.94 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss
The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss 3.78 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World
Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World 4.37 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Aztecs
The Aztecs 3.97 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs 4.30 avg rating — 4,792 ratings
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The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec
The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec 3.87 avg rating — 339 ratings
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Aztec Sacrifice! Gruesome Things You'd Rather Not Know
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Aztec Sacrifice! Gruesome Things You'd Rather Not Know really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 262 ratings
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How to Be an Aztec Warrior
How to Be an Aztec Warrior really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power 3.87 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil 4.01 avg rating — 817 ratings
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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 3.96 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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The Panama Hat Trail
The Panama Hat Trail 3.67 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal 4.04 avg rating — 832 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 4.22 avg rating — 22,134 ratings
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Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century 3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba (Caribbean Studies Series)
Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba (Caribbean Studies Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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