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      After Eden

      John Charles Chasteen

      To solve the problems of the twenty-first century, historian John Charles Chasteen argues that we must first know our shared human story

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      After Eden

      John Charles Chasteen

      To solve the problems of the twenty-first century, historian John Charles Chasteen argues that we must first know our shared human story.

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      The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

      Culture and the invention of national identity

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      Santa: A Novel of Mexico City

      This evocative novel - justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city’s customs, social interactions, and political activities - assumed singular importance in Mexican popular…

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      Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos

      John Charles Chasteen

      A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.

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      Getting High: Marijuana in World History

      John Charles Chasteen

      Noted historian John Chasteen traces the global history of marijuana, exploring its rich heritage with captivating insight. Among the first domesticated plants, Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been used…

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      National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance

      John Charles Chasteen

      A vast social gap separated Simon Bolivar from people of African descent; however, John Charles Chasteen’s research shows that popular culture could bridge the gap. Fast-paced and often funny, this…

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      Getting High: Marijuana in World History

      John Charles Chasteen

      Noted historian John Chasteen traces the global history of marijuana, exploring its rich heritage with captivating insight. Among the first domesticated plants, Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been used…

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      Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices

      The companion reader to the most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.

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      Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence (Pivotal Moments in World History)

      John Charles Chasteen

      In this engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence, Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in…

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      Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

      John Charles Chasteen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

      The most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.

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      The Lettered City

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      Provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power…

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      After Eden

      John Charles Chasteen

      In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provides a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of…

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      After Eden

      John Charles Chasteen

      In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provides a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of…

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      After Eden

      John Charles Chasteen

      In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provides a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of…

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      The Lettered City

      Angel Rama

      Provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power…

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      Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

      Next, four critics examine production of cultural objects: Fernando Unzueta investigates novels; Sara Castro-Klaren, archeology and folklore; Gustavo Verdesio, suppression of unwanted archeological evidence; and Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan, national literary…

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      The Vortex: A Novel

      Jose Eustasio Rivera

      Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, Jose Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova…

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      The Vortex: A Novel

      Jose Eustasio Rivera

      Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, Jose Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova…

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      Latin American Struggles for Independence: An Anthology of Sources

      Includes maps and illustrations, as well as a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.

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      Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence

      John Charles Chasteen (Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History, Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

      A premier volume in Oxford’s Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by…

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      The Concept of the Foreign: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

      Drawing out literal and metaphorical meanings of ‘foreignness’ this wide-ranging volume offers much to scholars of postcolonial, gender, and cultural studies seeking new approaches to the study of alterity.

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