Insight Guide to Cuba is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Cuba, choosing what to see, from exploring old Havana to discovering Valle de Vinales or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Santiago, Santa Clara. This is an ideal travel guide ......
Researching Crime and Violence in Medellin, Colombia: Truth versus Truths questions categories, assumptions and labels around interpretations of criminal actors and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean. By drawing from her experiences conducting fieldwork in Medellin, Colombia, Caroline Doyle provides readers with a unique window into the ......
A collection of over 40 cocktail recipes with a Caribbean influence are included here. Many are rum based and this book gives detailed explanations of the various types of rum used. Drinks range from the a classic Vodka Martini to the now popular Dark and Moody.
Aristide: A Theological and Political Introduction is a study of the political theory, democratic vision, and theological ethics and anthropology in the writings and ideas of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
This book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies, showing how crucial they have been in shaping contemporary political systems, economies, societies, and religious institutions in a richly diverse region.
Offers a long-overdue corrective to the mythology and the mystique which has plagued the study of pirates and served to deny them their rightful legitimacy as subjects of investigation
Venezuela enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century but in the past two decades has increasingly descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. Venezuela's Transition to Authoritarianism explores how and why this happened.
This book expertly traces the long, erratic, and incomplete path of Latin Americas political and socioeconomic democratization, from a group of colonies lacking democratic practice and culture up to the present.
This book expertly traces the long, erratic, and incomplete path of Latin Americas political and socioeconomic democratization, from a group of colonies lacking democratic practice and culture up to the present.
