When the Cuban Revolution succeeded in overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, rebel commander Fidel Castro declared, "The Revolution begins now." Over the next five decades, Castro remade Cuba into a one-party sociali.
On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and und…
Convergencias transculturales en el Caribe y Centroamérica
by Leyva, Héctor M., Alvarenga Venutolo, Patricia, Quintero Rivera, Ángel G., Contreras Castro, Anabelle, Angulo Brenes, Sonia, Cowie, Lancelot, Daniel, Justin, Grinberg Pla, Valeria, Menjívar O., Mauricio, Poe, Karen, Schmieder, Ulrike, Thénon, Luis, Castillo Jacobo, Marvin Edgardo
fromColección Nueva historia contemporánea de Centroamérica
Introducción: El Caribe y Centroamérica más allá de las ignorancias mutuas -- Memorias de la subalternidad. La negritud y el reto de la invención del pasado en la literatura contemporánea del Caribe Sur Centroamericano / Patricia Alvarenga Venutolo -- Mamita Yunai: Una lectura s…
Convergencias transculturales en el Caribe y Centroamérica
by Leyva, Héctor M., Alvarenga Venutolo, Ana Patricia, Quintero Rivera, Á. G., (Ángel G.), Contreras Castro, Anabelle, Angulo Brenes, Sonia, Castillo, Marvin, Cowie, Lancelot, Daniel, Justin, Grinberg Pla, Valeria, Menjívar O., Mauricio, Poe, Karen, Schmieder, Ulrike, Thénon, Luis
fromColección Nueva historia contemporánea de Centroamérica
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles …
The Oxford handbook of Central American history
"Central America is a region defined primarily by its geographical configuration as a canal-friendly isthmus, and its three-century history as the Spanish Kingdom of Guatemala. Having gained independence in 1821, the Kingdom broke up into the nations of Guatemala, Honduras, El S…
"Central America is a region defined primarily by its geographical configuration as a canal-friendly isthmus, and its three-century history as the Spanish Kingdom of Guatemala. Having gained independence in 1821, the Kingdom broke up into the nations of Guatemala, Honduras, El S…
"Central America is a region defined primarily by its geographical configuration as a canal-friendly isthmus, and its three-century history as the Spanish Kingdom of Guatemala. Having gained independence in 1821, the Kingdom broke up into the nations of Guatemala, Honduras, El S…
The author chronicles his present-day journey to find Ciudad Blanca, the legendary White City rumored to exist in the rain forests of Nicaragua's and Honduras' Mosquito Coast, following in the footsteps of the explorer and World War II spy Theodore Morde, who set out on the same…