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Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash, "Strength through Peace: How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica" (Oxford UP, 2019)

63 hours 34 mins; January 10, 2019

Victoria Fortuna, "Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires" (Oxford UP, 2018)

39 mins; December 28, 2018

Daniel Stahl, "Hunt for Nazis: South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes" (Amsterdam UP, 2018)

54 mins; December 26, 2018

Brenden W. Rensink, "Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands" (Texas A&M UP, 2018)

58 mins; December 13, 2018

Ana Paulina Lee, "Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory" (Stanford UP, 2018)

70 hours 54 mins; December 13, 2018

Mark Rice, "Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru" (UNC Press, 2018)

64 hours 34 mins; December 11, 2018

McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)

64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018

Sara Komarnisky, "Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

55 mins; December 06, 2018

Lilian Calles Barger, “The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology” (Oxford UP, 2018)

56 mins; November 07, 2018

Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)

34 mins; November 01, 2018

Jorge Coronado, “Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

45 mins; September 24, 2018

Antonio Sotomayor, “The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)

67 hours 18 mins; September 20, 2018

Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico” (U. California Press, 2018)

55 mins; September 19, 2018

David García, “Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins” (Duke UP, 2017)

47 mins; September 05, 2018

Teishan A. Latner, “Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992” (UNC Press, 2018)

36 mins; September 04, 2018

Peter James Hudson, “Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

64 hours 24 mins; August 28, 2018

Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)

63 hours 9 mins; August 22, 2018

Molly Warsh, “American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700” (UNC Press, 2018)

52 mins; August 07, 2018

Casey Walsh, “Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico” (U California Press, 2018).

56 mins; August 02, 2018

Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

54 mins; July 17, 2018

Andrew Selee, “Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together” (PublicAffairs, 2018)

20 mins; July 10, 2018

Nicholas Villanueva Jr., “The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands” (U New Mexico Press, 2017)

40 mins; June 22, 2018

Ignacio Aguiló, “The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina” (U Wales Press, 2018)

59 mins; June 19, 2018

Nicole Von Germeten, “Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico” (U California Press, 2018)

62 hours 36 mins; June 07, 2018

Steven Hackel, “Junípero Serra: California’s Founding Father” (Hill and Wang, 2014)

43 mins; June 04, 2018

Eden Medina, “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile” (MIT Press, 2011)

65 hours 22 mins; June 01, 2018

Matthew Restall, “When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History” (Ecco, 2018)

64 hours 32 mins; June 01, 2018

Sally and Richard Price, “Saamaka Dreaming” (Duke UP, 2017)

45 mins; May 28, 2018

Martha Few, “For All Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala” (U Arizona Press, 2015)

64 hours 59 mins; May 18, 2018

Benjamin Bryce, “To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society” (Stanford UP, 2018)

57 mins; May 11, 2018

Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)

70 hours 24 mins; April 27, 2018

Marc Hertzman, “Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil” (Duke UP, 2013)

48 mins; April 19, 2018

Alexus McLeod, “Philosophy of the Ancient Maya: Lords of Time” (Lexington Books, 2018)

65 hours 57 mins; April 16, 2018

Jimmy Patino, “Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego” (UNC Press, 2017)

58 mins; April 05, 2018

Karina O. Alvarado et al, “U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance” (U of Arizona Press, 2017)

58 mins; March 16, 2018

Adriana M. Brodsky, “Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Community and National Identity, 1880-1960” (Indiana UP, 2016)

60 hours 52 mins; March 14, 2018

Richard Candida Smith, “Improvised Continent: Pan-American and Cultural Exchange” (Penn Press, 2017)

58 mins; March 12, 2018

Christine Arce, “Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women” (SUNY Press, 2017)

79 hours 43 mins; March 09, 2018

Shiri Noy, “Banking on Health: The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

64 hours 2 mins; February 28, 2018

Daniel Fridman, “Freedom From Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina” (Stanford UP, 2017)

52 mins; February 15, 2018

Thomas Whigham, “The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-1870” (U Calgary Press, 2017)

55 mins; February 14, 2018

Deborah Vargas, et al., “Keywords for Latina/o Studies” (NYU Press, 2017)

43 mins; February 02, 2018

Kathryn A. Sloan, “Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)

48 mins; January 22, 2018

Rebecca Janzen, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

56 mins; January 10, 2018

Jason Oliver Chang, “Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)

71 hours 32 mins; December 13, 2017

David Head, “Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic” (U. Georgia Press, 2015)

39 mins; December 12, 2017

Monica Ricketts, “Who Should Rule? Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire” (Oxford UP, 2017)

56 mins; December 07, 2017

Jeffrey H. Cohen, “Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World” (U. Texas Press, 2015)

27 mins; November 02, 2017

Ricardo D. Salvatore, “Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945 (Duke UP, 2016)

38 mins; October 30, 2017

Tore C. Olsson, “Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside” (Princeton UP, 2017)

55 mins; October 23, 2017

Ronnie Perelis, “Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith” (Indiana UP, 2016)

54 mins; October 18, 2017

Nicholas C. Kawa, “Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, and Forests” (U. Texas Press, 2016)

26 mins; September 05, 2017

Juilet Hooker, “Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos” (Oxford UP, 2017)

55 mins; August 28, 2017

Jocelyn Olcott, “International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History” (Oxford UP, 2017)

60 hours 55 mins; August 25, 2017

Ernesto Bassi, “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World” (Duke UP, 2017)

46 mins; August 23, 2017

Raul Coronado, “A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture” (Harvard UP, 2013)

65 hours 22 mins; July 13, 2017

Dalia Muller, “Cuban Emigres and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World (UNC Press, 2017)

49 mins; June 23, 2017

Jorge Duany, “Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2017)

31 mins; June 13, 2017

Michael Neagle, “America’s Forgotten Colony: Cuba’s Isle of Pines” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

53 mins; May 30, 2017

Diana Kennedy, “Nothing Fancy: Recipes and Recollections of Soul-Satisfying Food” (U of Texas Press, 2016)

66 hours 13 mins; May 21, 2017

Allison E. Fagan, “From the Edge: Chicana/Chicano Border Literature and the Politics of Print” (Rutgers UP, 2016)

42 mins; April 24, 2017

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, “Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico” (Duke UP, 2015)

60 hours 0 mins; April 12, 2017

Anne Eller, “We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom” (Duke UP, 2016)

40 mins; April 12, 2017

Gregory Mitchell, “Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil’s Sexual Economy” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)

55 mins; March 13, 2017

Veronica Herrera, “Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico” (U. Michigan Press, 2017)

26 mins; March 06, 2017

Matthew James Crawford, “The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2016)

63 hours 34 mins; February 23, 2017

Surekha Davies, “Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

58 mins; January 12, 2017

Elizabeth Oglesby and Diane Nelson, “Guatemala: The Question of Genocide,” The Journal of Genocide Research” (Taylor and Frances, 2016)

58 mins; December 23, 2016

George T. Diaz, “Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande” (U. of Texas Press, 2015)

49 mins; November 08, 2016

Mireya Loza, “Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom” (UNC Press, 2016)

60 hours 1 min; September 12, 2016

Sam Quinones, “Dreamland: The True Tale of American’s Opiate Epidemic” (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)

57 mins; September 08, 2016

Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)

62 hours 5 mins; August 02, 2016

John Alba Cutler, “Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature” (Oxford UP, 2015)

64 hours 33 mins; June 26, 2016

Daryle Williams, “The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics” (Duke UP, 2016)

65 hours 30 mins; May 10, 2016

Frank P. Barajas, “Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961” (U. Nebraska Press, 2012)

71 hours 57 mins; April 30, 2016

Alejandra Dubcovsky, “Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South” (Harvard UP, 2016)

43 mins; April 26, 2016

Phillip Penix-Tadsen, “Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America” (MIT Press, 2016)

46 mins; March 14, 2016

Geoffrey Baker, “El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth” (Oxford UP, 2014)

61 hours 47 mins; March 02, 2016

David Sartorius, “Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba” (Duke UP, 2014)

45 mins; February 22, 2016

Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

56 mins; February 07, 2016

Sarah Bowen, “Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production” (U of California Press, 2015)

42 mins; February 06, 2016

Michelle Chase, “Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962” (UNC Press, 2015)

61 hours 47 mins; February 03, 2016

Ulla Berg, “Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.” (NYU Press, 2015)

73 hours 11 mins; January 18, 2016

Neil Roberts, “Freedom as Marronage” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

79 hours 58 mins; December 18, 2015

Julie M. Weise, “Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910” (UNC Press, 2015)

66 hours 6 mins; December 17, 2015

Arlene Davila, “Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People” (U California Press, 2012)

60 hours 40 mins; December 11, 2015

Yarimar Bonilla, “Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

46 mins; December 10, 2015

Angelique V. Nixon, “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture” (U Press of Mississippi, 2015)

46 mins; December 02, 2015

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015)

41 mins; December 01, 2015

Malick Ghachem’s “The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

51 mins; October 27, 2015

Edmund Hamann, et al., “Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora” (Information Age, 2015)

34 mins; October 20, 2015

Ruben Flores, “Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

69 hours 32 mins; October 20, 2015

Sonia Song-Ha Lee, “Building A Latino Civil Rights Movement” (UNC Press, 2014)

64 hours 14 mins; October 20, 2015

Jason McGraw, “The Work of Recognition: Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship” (UNC Press, 2014)

71 hours 22 mins; October 20, 2015

Erika Robb Larkins, “The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil” (U of California Press, 2015)

46 mins; October 09, 2015

Juanita De Barros, “Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery” (UNC Press, 2014)

57 mins; October 06, 2015

Ilan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Garcia, “Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art” (Duke UP, 2014)

59 mins; September 30, 2015

Gregory O’Malley, “Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807” (UNC Press for the Omohundro Institute, 2014)

48 mins; September 26, 2015

Roberto Lint Sagarena, “Aztlan and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place” (NYU Press, 2014)

62 hours 54 mins; September 23, 2015

Jenny Shaw, “Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference” (U of Georgia Press, 2013)

50 mins; September 23, 2015

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