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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

Cuban Music
	Roy, Maya (translated by Denise and Gabriel Asfar) Subject: Caribbean	Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling … More Information

Dr. Moritz (Don Mauricio) Hochschild, 1881–1965: A German Jewish Mining Entrepreneur in South America
	Waszkis, Helmut (edited by Heinrich Schipperges) Subject: South America	The colorful life and activities of Dr. Moritz Hochschild in Latin America between 1911 and 1965 are the center of the first biography of the man, an important mining entrepreneur and ore buyer, and his companies. Moritz Hochschild became one … More Information

Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans: Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World
	Schorsch, Jonathan Subject: Caribbean, Jewish Studies, Afro-Latino, Religion	“A real tour de force” –Reviews in History “Schorsch introduces a cast of characters in a series of one-act plays, short stories, and extended mediations that describe particular engagements with what it meant to live between identities.” –Journal of … More Information

History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World
	Moya Pons, Frank Subject: Caribbean	“Frank Moya Pons, the authority on the history of the Dominican Republic, has written a classic.” — New West Indian Guide “A clearly written and comprehensive narrative.” — HAHR: Hispanic American Historical Review “A very good read. Historically sound, … More Information

La Indianidad: The Indigenious World Before Latin Americans
	Horna, Hernán Subject: Latin America	Among the few historical documents by or about early Native American history are pre-Columbia Mayan manuscripts and stone glyphs, and documents written in Spanish by Indians and Mestizos from the Andes and Mesoamerica in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The … More Information

Parricide on the Pampa: A New Study and Translation of Los Gauchos Judíos
	Gerchunoff, Alberto (edited by Edna Aizenberg) Subject: Religion, South America	This book presents a radical rereading of Alberto Gerchunoff’s classic Argentinian immigrant saga, Los gauchos judíos (The Jewish Gauchos; 1910). This collection of stories about early 20th-century agricultural colonies founded by persecuted Eastern Europeans Jews on the pampa has been … More Information

People and Issues in Latin American History
	Hanke, Lewis and Jane M. Rausch Subject: Latin America, World History	This two-volume edition of People and Issues in Latin American History presents a range of sources on and interpretations of important topics in the history of Latin America that enable students to debate the historical significance of individuals and issues. … More Information

Simón Bolívar: History and Myth
	Zeuske, Michael (translated by Steven Rendall) Subject: Latin America	All over Latin America, and especially in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez, Latin America’s liberator, Simón Bolívar, is a political idol and symbol of that continent’s new political self-confidence. The legends about him remain alive and have been the basis … More Information