Exploding the myth of the Great Navigator, the author reveals how Colombus accidentally found a c...

Patterns of Protest explains the basis of a poor country's struggle against its most powerful nei...

The Future of Memory interviews more than 30 individuals who were children at the time of the Arg...

Cuba the Test of Time describes the mixture of achievement and obstacle that makes up modern Cuba...

Amazon Besieged tells the story of two writers' long investigative trip along the basin in 2016 a...

Green Gold looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean is...

Haiti's dramatic history, pressing social problems and rich culture make it one of the most fasci...

This work explores Guatemala. Considered by some to be the most beautiful and yet the most tragic...

Unity is Strength describes the hardships and violence suffered by Latin American workers and exp...

Rodolfo Walsh was a writer of crime novels, a tireless investigative journalist who uncovered rea...

Haiti: Family Business traces the historical orgins of the 'Duvalier system' and shows how and wh...

In this work, the author makes it clear that there is more to Mexico's environment than city smog...

Foreign interests have dominated the economic development of the Caribbean since the first arriva...

The US invasion of Grenada in 1983 was seen as a victory for freedom. By the early 1990s, however...

Picking Up the Pieces is a definitive book on contemporary Peruvian politics.

'The Dominican Republic is the land Columbus loved best' runs the advertising slogan. In celebrat...

This book is a journey through the underworld of Brazil's ten million street children. The author...

Available for the first time in English, this book presents the testimonies of the victims of Gua...

This is a first hand account of the most pressing social problems in Brazil: indigenous rights, s...

Profiles the people on the front-line of an environmental war, from indigenous groups and forest ...

An introduction to the history and current implications of the debt crisis, which positions debt ...

Caribbean Currents is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians...

This book contains topical articles covering the 'levantamientos' of 1999 and 2000 and interviews...

This work portrays Latin America's peoples in their fight for a brighter future. It explores the ...

Voices of Latin America tells the story of the major issues, conflicts and campaigns for social j...

The Amazon in Times of War presents both direct and indirect evidence showcasing the deliberate s...

This 1978 review, opens up the debate with articles which look at the nature of British aid, trad...

An examination of the banana trade from planting in the Eastern Caribbean to purchase in Britain,...

After the installation of a civilian government in 1986, many Guatemalans hopes for a sharp break...

Neo-liberalism has claimed another victim: Argentina. Since the 1970s, a brutal transference of r...

An upsurge of women's activism across Latin America has provoked vigorous discussions about femin...

Brazil: Carnival of the Oppressed is the essential introduction to the PT phenomenon. It traces t...

Honduras: State for Sale traces the transformation of Honduras from banana enclave to the linchpi...

This path-breaking book of investigative journalism lifts the veil on fumigation: why is it reall...

Brazil Under the Workers' Party, the first serious look at what went right - and what went wrong ...

Mexico is a land torn between Latin America and the US, between its Indian and revolutionary past...

Colombia: Inside the Labyrinth explains the reality behind the official and the actual country. I...

Cuba In Focus is one of a series of guides covering the countries of South and Central America an...

Brazil In Focus is an authorative and up-to-date guide to the giant of Latin America.

This 1979 review looks not simply at Britain and Latin America but also includes aspects of Europ...

In Fight for the Forest, Chico Mendes talks of his life's work in his last major interview. Tony ...

Promised Land vividly portrays these events with photographs and the words of people directly inv...

Under The Eagle 2nd Edition traces the history and motivations of United States policy in Central...

A look at the various, sometimes conflicting, aspects of Jamaica: at once a paradise tourist isla...

Argentina in Focus is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country.

In On The Line, Augusta Dwyer journeys through the crowded, dirty cities of the border, uncoverin...

In July 1993, near Haximu, a tiny hamlet in the Amazon rainforest, a fateful meeting between a gr...

Ecuador is part of the 'In Focus' series which looks at the countries they discuss with students ...