Anarchism in latin america

An accessible introduction to anarchism's history and influence from Mexico to Argentina. First English translation.

Arm the spirit

Even her children didn't know her real name. A gripping tale of life underground.

Crisis and contradiction

In this wide-ranging collection, experts from around the world analyze political and economic trends in Latin America since the 1990s.

Development and democracy: relations in conflict

Development and Democracy: Relations in Conflict examines the conflicting relations between technological development and democracy as they unfold in a new and ever more challenging environment.  

Extractive imperialism in the americas

In this wide-ranging volume two leading scholars of the region critically examine the new extractive-imperialism bearing down on the Americas

Human rights in latin america

For decades, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism, racism, and inequality. The region has also experienced dramatic—if uneven—human rights improvements, shedding light on the politics of transformation. The accounts of how Latin America’s p...

Idolatry and its enemies

The ecclesiastical investigations into Indian religious error--the Extirpation of idolatry--that occurred in the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Archdiocese of Lima come to life here as the most revealing sources on colonial Andean religion and culture. Focusing on a largely neglected period, ...

Imperialism, neoliberalism, and social struggles in latin america

This collection of works by prominent Latin Americanists explores the region's move beyond the neoliberal era

Industrial colonialism in latin america

Confronting the critical problems of Latin American development, this volume expertly roots these challenges in the structures of colonialism.

Marx and latin america

An important rebuttal of those who accuse Marx of 'Eurocentrism,' through a close reading of his views on Latin America.

Mexico

A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Pa...

Mexico unconquered

A young journalist's chronicles of Mexican social movements and the powers attempting to repress them

Power and resistance

Two of the left’s most important academics analyze the politics and economics of US imperialism’s relationship with Latin America.

Publishing science and technology under franco

This book presents an exhaustive analytical history of the great Spanish publishing house Editorial Gustavo Gili, specifically the scientific and technological works in its catalogue that were published during the years of the Franco regime.

Puerto rico

A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo p...

Republics of the new world

A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, th...

Shattered hope

Sin patrón

The inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves.

Sub-imperalism revisited

A theoretically rigorous examination of the claims of dependency theory in a world increasingly dominated by regional superpowers.

Subordinated development

Focusing on the processes of accumulation, concentration, and centralisation of capital, Rubens Sawaya traces the transnationalisation of capital and its impact on Latin America and Brazil

Territories in resistance

A thoughtful examination of social relations in Latin America, from one of the region's foremost political analysts.

The cinema of latin america

The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerou...

The dispossessed

The stories of ordinary Colombians displaced by war who are struggling, with dignity, to live.

The empire trap

How the United States became an imperial power by bowing to pressure to defend its citizens' overseas investmentsThroughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into ...

The speed of dreams

The literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer/rebel.

Tradition matters

Trini

Epic tale of a Mexican-American girl's journey into womanhood and independence on both sides of the border.

Utopia and the dialectic in latin american liberation

A stirring Marxist-Humanist analysis of recent liberation struggles waged by indigenous communities across Latin American.

Violent peace

When is military force an acceptable tool of foreign policy? Why do democracies use force against each other? David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive t...