Latin American Studies

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The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness
The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas 4.20 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala 4.18 avg rating — 536 ratings
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I, Rigoberta MenchĂș: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
I, Rigoberta MenchĂș: An Indian Woman in Guatemala 3.85 avg rating — 6,324 ratings
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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe 3.97 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala 4.29 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony 4.55 avg rating — 3,812 ratings
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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King 4.11 avg rating — 7,968 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries 4.04 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings 4.10 avg rating — 14,443 ratings
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War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala
War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Massacre at El Mozote
The Massacre at El Mozote 4.14 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America
Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of VĂ­ctor Jara
His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara 4.14 avg rating — 22 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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Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala
Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala 4.04 avg rating — 164 ratings
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VĂ­ctor Jara: Reventando los silencios
Víctor Jara: Reventando los silencios 4.16 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Death Foretold: The Jesuit Murders in El Salvador in El Salvador
Death Foretold: The Jesuit Murders in El Salvador in El Salvador liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Guatemalan Women Speak
Guatemalan Women Speak 3.86 avg rating — 7 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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Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution
Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940
The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990
For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life 4.14 avg rating — 24,227 ratings
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Conversation in the Cathedral
Conversation in the Cathedral 4.38 avg rating — 11,140 ratings
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Glimpses of Guatemala
Glimpses of Guatemala 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Decent Woman
A Decent Woman 4.37 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 4.21 avg rating — 74,687 ratings
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Porto Rico: hecho en Estados Unidos
Porto Rico: hecho en Estados Unidos it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7)
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7) 4.28 avg rating — 995 ratings
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Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812
Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Underdogs: with Related Texts
The Underdogs: with Related Texts 3.49 avg rating — 154 ratings
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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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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 4.31 avg rating — 26,231 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 — 985 ratings
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Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas
Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Un pais del porvenir
Un pais del porvenir 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Women of Colonial Latin America
The Women of Colonial Latin America 3.88 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Comentarios reales
Comentarios reales 3.65 avg rating — 515 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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Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984
Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-columbian Studies)
A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-columbian Studies) 3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Puerto Rico's Revolt for Independence: El Grito de Lares
Puerto Rico's Revolt for Independence: El Grito de Lares 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America
Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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VisiĂłn de los vencidos: Relaciones indĂ­genas de la conquista
Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista 4.06 avg rating — 3,913 ratings
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The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910
The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910 3.50 avg rating — 6 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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A New Time for Mexico
A New Time for Mexico 3.93 avg rating — 81 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,188 ratings
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Escritos PolĂ­ticos (Sepan Cuantos, #495)
Escritos Políticos (Sepan Cuantos, #495) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America 3.85 avg rating — 26 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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Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism
Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism 4.06 avg rating — 265 ratings
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La rebelión permanente: las revoluciones sociales en América Latina
La rebeliĂłn permanente: las revoluciones sociales en AmĂ©rica Latina really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Race, Caste and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America
Race, Caste and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America 2.50 avg rating — 2 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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Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944
Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Guatemala: Never Again!
Guatemala: Never Again! 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Respuestas al colonialismo en la política puertorriqueña: 1899-1929
Respuestas al colonialismo en la polĂ­tica puertorriqueña: 1899-1929 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America
Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America 3.67 avg rating — 15 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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The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop
The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop 3.52 avg rating — 132 ratings
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LumpenburguesĂ­a: Lumpendesarrollo
Lumpenburguesía: Lumpendesarrollo 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other 4.10 avg rating — 1,735 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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Mayan Visions
Mayan Visions 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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El Ășltimo DalĂ­
El Ășltimo DalĂ­ 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Oxford History of Mexico
The Oxford History of Mexico 3.87 avg rating — 126 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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The Heights of Macchu Picchu
The Heights of Macchu Picchu 4.13 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas
Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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El puño invisible
El puño invisible 4.39 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization
The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization 3.69 avg rating — 59 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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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair 4.20 avg rating — 79,726 ratings
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Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico
Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico 3.33 avg rating — 176 ratings
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El sueño que no cesa
El sueño que no cesa 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Colonial Latin America
Colonial Latin America 3.42 avg rating — 229 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 — 207 ratings
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Diario del Che en Bolivia
Diario del Che en Bolivia 3.73 avg rating — 3,024 ratings
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The Penguin History of Latin America
The Penguin History of Latin America 3.79 avg rating — 621 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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Dependency and Development in Latin America
Dependency and Development in Latin America 3.55 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Diccionario taĂ­no ilustrado
Diccionario taíno ilustrado 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
Another Face of Empire: BartolomĂ© de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism 4.11 avg rating — 9 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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Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas
Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas 3.79 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España 4.14 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
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Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) 4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel LittĂ­n
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín 3.87 avg rating — 5,173 ratings
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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas 3.84 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Myth of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction: Continuity and Reclamation in Borikén
The Myth of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction: Continuity and Reclamation in BorikĂ©n 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Beneath the Equator
Beneath the Equator 4.29 avg rating — 17 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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Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change
Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change 3.61 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Sociologia Con Aplicaciones En Paises de Habla Hispana
Sociologia Con Aplicaciones En Paises de Habla Hispana 3.86 avg rating — 49 ratings
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A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present
A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present 3.60 avg rating — 84 ratings
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