Born in Blood and Fire, a Concise History of Latin America 2016014210, 9780393283051

Born in blood and fire

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Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico 0306806282, 9780306806285

"Mexico's history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and sp

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Race and Ethnicity in America : A Concise History 9780231503204, 9780231129404

Featuring essays by leading historians, this brief history is a timely introduction to the interrelated themes of race,

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Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America 9780520929746

Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans cho

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Science in Latin America: A History 9780292795716

Science in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Azt

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Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor 9781782383642

Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern

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A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood 9780190902810, 9780190902797

In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed

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Born in the Country: A History of Rural America 9781421423364, 2016052562, 9781421423357, 1421423367

Updated edition: "A balanced economic, social, political, and technological history of rural America . . . A splend

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The Contemporary History of Latin America 9780822398318

For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most infl

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Born Losers: A History of Failure in America [1 ed.] 067401510X, 067402107X, 9780674015104

What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet fail

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