LIBROS DEL AUTOR: russ davidson

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  • The Investigative Brigade
    Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles / Russ Davidson
    During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. In 1991, a year after the brutal military regime ended, the new civilian government tasked the nation’s detective force to investigate these crimes. Chilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy tells the dramatic story of the detectives who hunted down and att...
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    37,82 €

  • They Should Stay There
    Alanís Enciso / Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso / Smith College / Russ Davidson
    Here, for the first time in English—and from the Mexican perspective—is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers...
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    44,61 €

  • Eating Puerto Rico
    Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra / Russ Davidson
    Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra’s magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortíz shows how their produ...
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    50,65 €

  • The Cuban Connection
    Eduardo Sáenz Rovner / Russ Davidson
    A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution. Eduardo Sáenz Rovner argues that Cuba’s histori...
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    44,64 €

  • A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902
    Marial Iglesias Utset / Russ Davidson
    In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States’ brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902 — a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War — Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban nationalism.Drawing on archival and published sources, Iglesias illustrates ...
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    51,31 €