John Charles Chasteen
John Chasteen’s carefully crafted companion reader to Born in Blood and Fire follows the table of contents of the main text and provides glimpses into the everyday life and texture of the Latin American experience during the last six centuries.More
Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro
The life that inspired Evita, the major motion picture starring Madonna.More
Robert E. Quirk
In this masterly biography, the prize-winning historian Robert E. Quirk paints a portrait of the charismatic leader who for more than three decades—and over eight American presidencies—managed to sustain a communist regime in the western hemisphere.
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John S. D. Eisenhower
Powerful and compelling. . . . Eisenhower is not only an accomplished military historian, he's also a storyteller in the tradition of Bruce Caton and Shelby Foote."—Steve Neal, Chicago Sun-TimesMore
Ramón Eduardo Ruíz
A narrative study of Mexico's tumultuous origin and development--from its Olmec, Aztec and Mayan heritage to its present-day incarnation as an independent, but struggling, modern country.More
John Lynch
Second Edition
Spanish America was engulfed for nearly two decades in revolutions for independence that were sudden, violent, and universal.More
G. J. A. O'Toole
"O'Toole is . . . astonishingly good. . . . [He] is a master of the knack of weaving significant detail into his recapitulation of the war." —Alden Whitman, Chicago Sun-TimesMore
Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins
"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands." —James M. GavinMore
Ramón Eduardo Ruíz
The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call to arms in 1910 was a momentous event in the turbulent history of Mexico.More