NACLA Report Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Award-winning quarterly magazine and online publication on political and economic issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. https://t.co/qpj4SOoKkd
Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador
Teresa A. VelásquezNACLA Report"Teresa Velásquez's Pachamama Politics makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how Indigeneity is challenged, reconfigured, and mobilized in territorial struggles over natural resources," writes @Andysemp in this review. https://t.co/f9mf4ygRJG
Hardcover, 2022
$100.00Member price:$100.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Impasse of the Latin American Left
Franck GaudichaudNACLA ReportThis week on https://t.co/DIJiLRdIiB: Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez lead as Colombians head to the polls this weekend. @sellner74 reviews the new book The Impasse of the Latin American Left. https://t.co/016ThINppE Subscribe: https://t.co/KARgVOC7A0 https://t.co/ueNMqKF1rt
Paperback, 2022
$24.95Member price:$23.70 + Free shipping5% off
Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance Volume 15
Geo MaherNACLA Report"This book is an archive of the decolonial resistance practices of groups and individuals who, from within the shadows of colonialism and imperialism, managed to stealthily move and wage struggle." @infrapolitics on Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions. https://t.co/ydf65yum3v
Paperback, 2022
$18.95Member price:$18.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Jonathan M. KatzNACLA ReportREVIEW | Jonathan Katz's Gangsters of Capitalism sheds light on how the US "transformed from a hemispheric power to a global one" with insights on "the ideology, material interests, and, most crucially, militarism" that fueled the expansion. @cosbtollerson https://t.co/aEVhKBFxhA
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru Volume 76
María Elena GarcíaNACLA ReportMaría Elena García’s new book, Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race, exposes the intensely colonial and patriarchal politics underlying Peru’s much-praised gastronomic boom. Read the review by Amy Cox Hall. https://t.co/2M06atQ3e1
Paperback, 2021
$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Cuba: An Annotated Bibliography
Louis PzrezNACLA ReportIn September the Biden administration renewed sanctions against Cuba. Last week, the state department offered Cuba $2 million in humanitarian aid in the wake of Hurricane Ian. "The irony of the scene is palpable," writes Louis A. Pérez, Jr. https://t.co/Mb8T9okCiM
Hardcover, 1988
$83.00Member price:$83.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti
Vincent JoosNACLA ReportREVIEW | "In this timely book, Joos brings readers into the persistent, if precarious, places where Haitians sustain livelihoods and nurture relationships," writes @iebrisson of Vincent Joos's "Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships." https://t.co/xKaFR98SmU
Hardcover, 2021
$150.00Member price:$150.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin
Kimberly TheidonNACLA Report@KimberlyTheidon shows us “the ways seemingly disconnected issues—wartime sexual violence, chronic malnutrition, kin relations with mountains and rivers—are in fact intimately entangled” writes María Elena García in her review of Legacies of War. https://t.co/mSLSVTUHnd
Paperback, 2022
$23.95Member price:$22.75 + Free shipping5% off
The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America
Francesca LessaNACLA ReportFrancesca Lessa’s new book The Condor Trials "documents the operation’s strategy and the role that it played in the destruction of the political and social fabric of the South American Left," writes @luciacholakian in her review. https://t.co/o7QsN3iXPs
Hardcover, 2022
$65.00Member price:$65.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador
Irina Carlota SilberNACLA Report@HilaryGoodfrien reviews After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador. Silber's work engages "the '1.5 insurgent generation,' or the 'the now young adult children of the forgotten former rank-and-file Salvadoran revolutionaries.'” https://t.co/3ANciVrY06
Paperback, 2022
$28.00Member price:$28.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)