Latin America — Markus Wiener Publishers

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Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean: An A-Z of Historic Buildings
	Gravette, Andrew Subject: Latin America, Caribbean	Better known for its land and sea, the Caribbean is also home to a wealth of historic buildings. As a region colonized by Spanish, French, British, and Dutch settlers, its architecture reflects an unparalleled variety of colonial influences. Its buildings … More Information

Battleship Vieques: Puerto Rico from World War II to the Korean War
	Ayala, César J. and José L. Bolívar Subject: Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. History	*Outstanding Book of the Year, Choice* Magazine** The demonstrations that resulted in the U.S. Navy’s being forced out of Vieques in 2003 were the result of the island’s occupation during and after World War II. After German … More Information

Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica
	Zips, Werner (preface by Franklin Knight; translated by Shelley Frisch) Subject: Africa, Caribbean	This book chronicles the struggles of African-Americans who escaped from slavery and developed autonomous, “maroon” societies beyond the fringes of the colonial system, demonstrating the vulnerability of colonial rule and the vitality of black resistance in the Caribbean. Illustated with … More Information

Bon Papa: Haiti’s Golden Years
	Diederich, Bernard Subject: Caribbean	This is Haiti, pearl of the Antilles, during the presidency of General Paul E. (Bon Papa) Magloire (1950-56). It was an exciting time, when Haitians stood tall, and their country flourished, as reported in the pages of the Haiti Sun … More Information

Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City
	Haslip-Viera, Gabriel, Angelo Falcón and Félix V. Matos-Rodríguez, editors Subject: Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. History	This new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York’s Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings of the great migration in the 1940s to the present time. The collection also honors … More Information

Busha’s Mistress: A Stirring Romance from the Days of Slavery in Jamaica
	Perkins, Cyrus Francis (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Verene Shepherd and David Trotman) Subject: Caribbean, World Literature	This is one of the earliest Caribbean novels written in English. The novel tells the story of Catherine, the slave concubine of a cruel white overseer on Greenside Estate, near Falmouth, whose ruins today attest to the tensions of a … More Information

Capoeira & Candomblé: Conformity and Resistance Through Afro-Brazilian Experience
	Merrell, Floyd Subject: Africa, South America, Religion	Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candomblé is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and African beliefs and practices. The two are closely interconnected. Capoeira and Candomblé have for centuries made up a coherent … More Information

Caribbean: Sea of the New World
	Arciniegas, Germán Subject: Caribbean	This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Commonweal wrote of the 1946 edition, “Arciniegas has written a most informative and entertaining book…the student of … More Information

Clemente! The Enduring Legacy
	Wagenheim, Kal Subject: Latin America, U.S. History	Roberto Clemente, the first Latino baseball superstar, died on December 31, 1972, when his plane crashed while he tried to fly relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Clemente’s legacy endures nearly four decades after his tragic death, because he … More Information

Colonialism (Updated and Expanded Edition)
	Osterhammel, Jürgen Subject: World History	“Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the European powers of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries bears a marked resemblance to the political imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Further, although there are … More Information