Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean explores the experiences of the enslaved and their struggle to win freedom in the i......more

Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments led by Chile formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to ......more

A completely updated edition--based on recently declassified archives and judicial investigations--of the story of the c......more

As the Japanese Empire extended its reach across Asia and increasingly clashed with the United States in the years leadi......more

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Reveals hidden depths of the Hemingway mystique through the eyes of a modern writer who spent a decade immersed in the l......more

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How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vital......more

"Spellbinding." --Booklist, starred review - "A must-read." --Library Journal "Poetic." --Emma Straub - "This is writing......more

Through a focus on the role of war in shaping attitudes, British Relations with Mexico since the Colonial Era examines t......more

While borders have been historically studied from a state-centric perspective, the past few decades have seen the emerge......more

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Inside the farming traditions that have supported food sovereignty and community resistance in past and present Tlaxcala......more

At just 24 years old, Tanja Nijmeijer left the Netherlands to join the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a ......more

One of the most pervasive yet least studied figures in Latin American culture is La Llorona, the weeping woman. Doomed t......more

NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez offers a forceful, necessary exposé on the precarious realities......more

Once regarded as a critical maritime highway in the wake of British abolition, the channels of The Bahamas became a cros......more

Once regarded as a critical maritime highway in the wake of British abolition, the channels of The Bahamas became a cros......more

"This book examines the migration of Russians and Russian-language speakers from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union......more

At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family’s humble distillery, La Rojeña, in the Tequila Va......more

Tracing the origins and cultural impact of an Afro-Panamanian musical genre In Reggae en Español, Sonja Stephenson Watso......more

Tracing the origins and cultural impact of an Afro-Panamanian musical genre In Reggae en Español, Sonja Stephenson Watso......more

Four electrifying and hopeful accounts of feminist uprising that have swept through Latin America and Spain in the wake ......more

In this two-volume site report, authors Charles Spencer and Elsa Redmond report the final, comprehensive results of two ......more

In this two-volume site report, authors Charles Spencer and Elsa Redmond report the final, comprehensive results of two ......more

The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically ......more

Seeds of Solidarity is a study of British Guiana amid a wave of Caribbean uprisings that brought modern politics to colo......more

Seeds of Solidarity is a study of British Guiana amid a wave of Caribbean uprisings that brought modern politics to colo......more

The scramble for distant riches features centrally in the history of the Global South--from the first forays of European......more

The scramble for distant riches features centrally in the history of the Global South--from the first forays of European......more

This open access introduction to the major Mexican philosopher and activist Luis Villoro shows how his ideas can reshape......more

The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies examines the remarkable transformation of the Central Andes a......more

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How is citizenship constructed from the margins? Peripheral Citizenship examines this question by placing the urban peri......more

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for indepe......more

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 - THE WASHINGTON POST’S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 - TH......more

Connecting the Caribbean with other island networks that have shared histories and legacies of empire While the Caribbea......more

Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration. What did John Cabot and Christopher Colu......more

In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Piña shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor con......more

In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Piña shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor con......more

How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness A landmark treatment of a pivotal historical q......more

How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness A landmark treatment of a pivotal historical q......more

Analyzing how Peruvian feminist art and activism subverts and reclaims the chola stereotype to confront colonial and pat......more

A hugely entertaining social history of the elite and exclusive Caribbean island of St. Barthélemy from the New York Tim......more

Examines how poor and working-class communities in Guadalajara organized through faith, education, and culture to claim ......more

Examines how poor and working-class communities in Guadalajara organized through faith, education, and culture to claim ......more

By 1865, more than 750,000 enslaved Africans had arrived in Cuba, making it the leading Spanish American slave colony an......more

A rigorous reflection on recent literary accounts of violence at the US-Mexico border. Writing Juárez is a rigorous refl......more

Within the global Spanish empire of the early modern era, the signifier portugués carried an expansive variety of associ......more

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, ......more

Despite the Falklands War between Argentina and the UK lasting only ten weeks, it still had an enduring impact on milita......more

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How Cuba’s contemporary mediascape is challenging official histories, recovering memories, and redefining identities Thi......more

This book presents an English translation of King Alfonso X of Castile-León’s municipal law code, a companion to his mon......more

An investigation of the widespread popularity of modernist architecture in midcentury Brazil During the mid-twentieth ce......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cuba: An American History comes a heartbreaking yet redemptive memoir about mi......more

A detailed look at the 1983 American invasion of Grenada, the largest and most significant US military operation since t......more

Departing from conventional community-based histories, this innovative work examines how immigrant identities are transf......more

Faith in Disguise follows Martín Tirado, a white Puerto Rican digital historian and research assistant to Fe Verdejo, an......more

In 1952, the Cuban Army Air Corps (Cuerpo de Aviación del Ejército de Cuba, CAEC) was reorganised into the Cuban Army Ai......more

"Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba’s struggle to maintain the revolution in the years f......more

An expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway. A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conc......more