Kategoria BISAC: History >> Latin America - Central America

This is the classic biography of Salvadoran revolutionary hero Farabundo Marti, who fought with Augusto Sandino in Nicaragua. Marti was a unionist and a key leader of the indigenous peasant uprising in 1932 that was brutally crushed in the massacre of 30,000 Salvadorans. He was captured and executed by the US-run National Guard.Jorge Arias Gomez (author) was a revolutionary Salvadoran lawyer, professor and historian. He died in 2002.

The K'iche' Maya creation story preserved in the sixteenth-century manuscript "Popol Vuh" describes the origin of the world and its people in a setting long assumed to be the Guatemalan central highlands. Now a scholar with a deep knowledge of Maya history shows that all of these mythological events occurred at specific locations and that this landscape was the template for the Maya worldview.

Examining the primary Maya deities, Karen Bassie-Sweet links geographic features to gods and beliefs. She reconstructs key elements of the "Popol Vuh" to argue that the three volcanoes around Lake...

A work of solid scholarship that challenges the notion of the United States as the rampant eagle in its relations with Latin America . . . will appeal to specialists in Latin American studies, U.S. diplomatic history, and international relations, and will likely make the required reading lists of graduate students in these fields. --Charles D. Ameringer, Pennsylvania State University
Steven Schwartzberg reinterprets U.S. foreign policy in Latin America during the Truman presidency. He examines the dynamic interaction between American policy and political developments in Latin America...

At the time of Ortega's return to the presidency, attorney and award-winning author Steven Hendrix was on the ground in Nicaragua working for the U.S. Agency for International Development. "The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States" is Hendrix's eyewitness account of the changes going on there.

What Hendrix found in the new Nicaragua is a decidedly mixed bag: a presidential campaign marked by dirty tricks and backroom deals, yet an election held under the first neutral comprehensive observation ever in the developing world; an overt...

As it swept across the Honduran landscape, the exceptional size, power and duration of Hurricane Mitch abruptly and brutally altered the already diminished economic, social, and environmental conditions of the population. In the aftermath of the disaster a group of seven socio-environmental scientists set out to investigate the root causes of the heightened...