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Nicholas Jepson, "In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South" (Columbia UP, 2019)
64 hours 29 mins; February 16, 2021
Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
41 mins; February 16, 2021
R. Alan Covey, "Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; February 11, 2021
Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
51 mins; February 10, 2021
Christy Thornton, "Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy" (U California Press, 2021)
61 hours 56 mins; February 10, 2021
Wade Davis, "Magdalena, River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia" (Knopf, 2020)
57 mins; February 08, 2021
Camilla Townsend, "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs" (Oxford UP, 2019)
60 hours 57 mins; February 05, 2021
M. C. Riggio et al, "Festive Devils of the Americas" (Seagull Books, 2015)
91 hours 18 mins; February 04, 2021
Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2020)
63 hours 59 mins; February 01, 2021
David Trouille, "FĂştbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
53 mins; February 01, 2021
Thomas C. Field, "From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era" (Cornell UP, 2014)
92 hours 22 mins; January 29, 2021
Diana Taylor, "¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence" (Duke UP, 2020)
54 mins; January 29, 2021
Andrew Grant Wood, "The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
68 hours 7 mins; January 27, 2021
James F. Siekmeier, "Latin American Nationalism: Identity in a Globalizing World" (Bloomsbury, 2017)
65 hours 40 mins; January 26, 2021
Natasha Zaretsky, "Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
73 hours 38 mins; January 22, 2021
Vanessa Mongey, "Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
61 hours 23 mins; January 20, 2021
Elisa Pulido, "The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961" (Oxford UP, 2020)
61 hours 29 mins; January 20, 2021
Sharika D. Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making" (UNC Press, 2020)
68 hours 16 mins; January 12, 2021
Claire M. Wolnisty, "A Different Manifest Destiny: U. S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
49 mins; January 05, 2021
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion with Javier Auyero
57 mins; January 04, 2021
Norah L. A. Gharala, "Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain" (U of Alabama Press, 2019)
48 mins; January 04, 2021
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, "Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan" (U California Press, 2020)
72 hours 15 mins; December 29, 2020
Marjoleine Kars, "Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast" (New Press, 2020)
44 mins; December 29, 2020
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" (UNC Press, 2020)
78 hours 51 mins; December 28, 2020
Anne Garland Mahler, "From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity" (Duke UP, 2018)
34 mins; December 22, 2020
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Ecuador: A Discussion with Maricarmen Hernandez
50 mins; December 21, 2020
John Soluri and Claudia Leal, "A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America" (Berghahn, 2018)
65 hours 24 mins; December 17, 2020
Alan McPherson, "Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice" (UNC Press, 2019)
68 hours 42 mins; December 15, 2020
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises: A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse" (Brill, 2020)
56 mins; December 15, 2020
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
56 mins; December 11, 2020
Krista Brune, "Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas" (SUNY Press, 2020)
91 hours 57 mins; December 09, 2020
Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties" (Duke UP, 2020)
56 mins; December 09, 2020
Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
75 hours 41 mins; December 07, 2020
Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
53 mins; November 24, 2020
Amalia LeguizamĂłn, "Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina" (Duke UP, 2020)
61 hours 33 mins; November 24, 2020
Julie Gibbings, "Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
50 mins; November 09, 2020
Eric Rutkow, "The Longest Line on the Map The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas" (Scribner, 2019)
52 mins; November 05, 2020
Micha Rahder, "An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation" (Duke UP, 2020)
55 mins; October 30, 2020
Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora" (Stanford UP, 2019)
76 hours 30 mins; October 28, 2020
Sara Luna, "Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border" (U Texas Press, 2020)
41 mins; October 23, 2020
Kristina M. Lyons, "Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
39 mins; October 19, 2020
Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., "Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in 18th-Century South America" (UNC Press, 2020)
71 hours 43 mins; October 16, 2020
Dylon Robbins, "Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
55 mins; October 14, 2020
Ben Vinson III, "Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
35 mins; October 14, 2020
Charles F. Walker, "Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 56 mins; October 12, 2020
David Tavárez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2011)
61 hours 25 mins; October 01, 2020
Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, "La Batea" (Red Hook, 2017)
62 hours 52 mins; September 30, 2020
Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press 2020)
75 hours 31 mins; September 29, 2020
Edgardo Pérez Morales, "No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions" (Vanderbilt UP, 2018)
73 hours 59 mins; September 23, 2020
Maurice S. Crandall, "These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912" (UNC Press, 2019)
62 hours 51 mins; September 22, 2020
Sarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
53 mins; September 22, 2020
Rachel V. González, "Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities"
64 hours 42 mins; September 18, 2020
Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque" (UP Colorado, 2017)
65 hours 51 mins; September 17, 2020
Jean Jackson, "Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia" (Stanford UP, 2019)
57 mins; September 16, 2020
Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" (Duke UP, 2020)
127 hours 23 mins; September 14, 2020
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
35 mins; September 12, 2020
Mark Santiago, "A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799" (U Oklahoma Press, 2018)
68 hours 12 mins; September 11, 2020
Isabella Cosse, "Mafalda: A Social And Political History of a Global Comic" (Duke UP, 2019)
35 mins; September 08, 2020
Gema Kloppe-SantamarĂ­a, "Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)
57 mins; September 08, 2020
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
42 mins; September 02, 2020
JoĂŁo Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering" (U of Minnesota Press, 2018)
73 hours 36 mins; August 28, 2020
Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2020)
52 mins; August 18, 2020
Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (Oxford UP, 2018)
79 hours 9 mins; August 07, 2020
José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
47 mins; August 07, 2020
David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (U Colorado Press, 2017)
89 hours 15 mins; August 06, 2020
Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
64 hours 44 mins; August 05, 2020
Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince" (U California Press, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; August 04, 2020
Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas: Empires and Legal Networks" (Oxford UP, 2017)
61 hours 9 mins; July 30, 2020
Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
61 hours 53 mins; July 29, 2020
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street" (UNC Press, 2018)
51 mins; July 27, 2020
Katherine Zien, "Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
65 hours 27 mins; July 24, 2020
Elizabeth Shesko, "Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
75 hours 2 mins; July 23, 2020
Raluca Soreanu, "Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
69 hours 36 mins; July 20, 2020
Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
61 hours 47 mins; July 16, 2020
Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops" (Duke UP, 2020)
62 hours 54 mins; July 14, 2020
Hanna Garth, "Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal" (Stanford UP, 2020)
48 mins; July 09, 2020
Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
60 hours 48 mins; July 07, 2020
Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World" (UNC Press 2020)
44 mins; July 06, 2020
David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 47 mins; July 03, 2020
Claudia Rueda, "Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition-Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua" (U Texas Press, 2019)
53 mins; July 03, 2020
Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
71 hours 39 mins; June 23, 2020
Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean" (UNC Press, 2016)
56 mins; June 23, 2020
Ashley E. Kerr, "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)" (Vanderbilt UP, 2020)
66 hours 54 mins; June 22, 2020
Robert Samet, "Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
57 mins; June 19, 2020
Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
53 mins; June 17, 2020
Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and the Global Cold War" (UNC Press, 2020)
54 mins; June 16, 2020
Alberto Harambour, "SoberanĂ­as fronterizas: Estados y capital en la colonizaciĂłn de Patagonia" (EUAC, 2019)
58 mins; June 15, 2020
Edgar Garcia,  "Signs of the America: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs and Khipu" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
45 mins; June 12, 2020
Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
71 hours 18 mins; June 12, 2020
A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
73 hours 42 mins; June 10, 2020
Cristina Soriano, "Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela" (UNM Press, 2018)
66 hours 12 mins; June 10, 2020
Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2019)
56 mins; June 09, 2020
Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2020)
56 mins; June 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
40 mins; June 02, 2020
Alexander L. Fattal, "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
59 mins; May 29, 2020
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, "Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present" (UNC Press, 2020)
61 hours 50 mins; May 28, 2020
Louis A. PĂ©rez, "Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2019)
56 mins; May 19, 2020
Robert A. Karl, "Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia" (U California Press 2017)
66 hours 2 mins; May 19, 2020
Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic" (Stanford UP, 2016)
67 hours 10 mins; May 08, 2020
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