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New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back "Americas" provides an overview of the similarities and differences among the 33 countries and half-billion people who live in Latin America and the Caribbean region that has played a crucial role in shaping our modern world. First Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Bound in black half-cloth gilt titled with black boards; greyish discoloration on front near fore edge and rubbing of the cloth near the upper corner near the spine, else Fine. Clean, tight and solid. Internals quite clean and free from any markings. 16 full color plates and b/w illustrations throughout. Jacket Painting: Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda, by Diego Rivera. 639 pages with Notes and Index. .9.75 x 6.75 inches. 1993, Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Beverly Hills, CA and London: Sage Pubns, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Includes with maps, charts, diagrams' figures, tables, reports and a summary of the Jahual Seminar on the Social Sciences and Urban Development. Latin America in 1970: Urban Development, Integrating Urban Policies among Nations, Urban Growth, Political Development, Policy for Squatter Settlements---LAFTA BARRIADAS BARRIOS MEXICO VENEZUELA URUGUAY PERU GUATEMALA PANAMA NICARAGUA PARAGUAY BRAZIL COLOMBIA CHILE BOLIVIA ARGENTINA COSTA RICA ECUADOR CUBA. Handsome binding of brown cloth with gilt titles; clean and unmarked, slight wear to extremities, tight, solid and square. Internals are as new. xviii + 398 pages indexed. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Sage Pubns, Beverly Hills, CA and London, 1971.

Boulder, Colorado, US and London, UK: Westview Press, 1991. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1991. 5th Revision and Updated Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. xi + 489 pages with Notes and Glossary. Clean and unmarked gold wraps with red lettering, light wear to corner and spine heel; tight and solid, square glued binding. Stamp and gold rem mk on lower edge of text block. Originally published in 1955, this is a compact update of a book of readings on Latin American civilization which has been used by teachers and students since then. This fifth edition is enriched with new selections that portray Latin America's colonial past and its turbulent present. The current re-evaluations of the European discovery of the New World is discussed and this edition also updates the section on the 20th century. 6 x 9.2 inches. 1991, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, US and London, UK

Wilmington, Delaware: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright and clean wrappers; slight wear to spine heel; tight, solid and square glued binding; internals as new. A comprehensove overview of Nicaraguan politics under the Chamorro government and a thorough analysis of the transition from Sandinista rule to liberal democracy. This is a balanced account of economic neoliberalism's failure to meet the complex challenges posed by a country wracked by the legacies of authoritarianism, personalist politics, revolution, counterrevolution and U. S. interventionism. (James D. Cockcroft. State Univ of New York visiting professor, Latin America and Caribbean Studies). 332 pp with Index and Information about contributors. 6 x 9 inches. 1997, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Wilmington, Delaware

Monthly Review Press, 1997. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. Monthly Review Press, 1997. Trade Paperback As New. Foreword by Isabel Allende. An outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx--from back of book. Galeano has organized the various factors of Latin American history according to the five centuries of exploitation. Natural resources--such as gold, coffee, and copper--are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande, and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to where they empty into the coffers of the wealth in the United States and Europe. 317 pages, References and Index. 8vo. 1997, Monthly Review Press.

U.S.A: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1977. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback Ex-Library book in Good Condition. Octavo. 198 pages. Lib stamps, stickers, pocket in back. Cover generally clean, light edgewear, worn looking. Pages are clean, no underlining, no highlighting or notes. A good reading/study copy. 1977, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University