The Politics and Economics of Latin America: Academic Best Sellers in Latin American Studies

An exploration of Brazil’s status as an emerging global capitalist giant and its unique contributions and challenges in the social arena, a definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans, and a new study of 1950s Latina activist Dolores Huerta top the list of best-selling Latin American studies books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

An exploration of Brazil’s status as an emerging global capitalist giant and its unique contributions and challenges in the social arena, a definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexican, and a new study of 1950s Latina activist Dolores Huerta top the list of best-selling Latin American studies books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
 

1. From Revolution to Power in Brazil: How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership
Serbin, Ken
University of Notre Dame Press. 2019. ISBN 9780268105853. $60.
 

2. Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
Gharala, Norah L.A.
University of Alabama Press. 2019. ISBN 9780817320072. $54.95.
 

3. Si, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
Sowards, Stacey K.
University of Texas Press. 2019. ISBN 9781477317662. $90.
 

4. Revolution and Reaction: The Diffusion of Authoritarianism in Latin America 
Weyland, Kurt Gerhard.
Cambridge University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781108483551. $99.99.
 

5. There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-Au-Prince
Beckett, Greg
University of California Press. 2019. ISBN 9780520300248. $29.95.
 

6. Dude Lit: Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955-2012
Hind, Emily
University of Arizona Press. 2019. ISBN 9780816539260. $65.
 

7. House of the Pain of Others: Chronicle of a Small Genocide
Herbert, Julian
Graywolf. 2019. ISBN 9781555978372. $16.
 

8. The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century
Pineda Franco, Adela
State University of New York Press. 2019. ISBN 9781438475615. $95.
 

9. Opera in the Tropics: Music and Theater in Early Modern Brazil
Budasz, Rogerio
Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190215828. $74.
 

10. Beyond Human: Vital Materialisms in the Andean Avant-Gardes
Daly, Tara
Bucknell University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781684480685. $99.95.
 

11. Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba Before 1959
Feeney, Megan
University of Chicago Press. 2019. ISBN 9780226593692. $35.
 

12. Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico
Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya
University Of New Mexico Press. 2019. ISBN 9780826360397. $95.
 

13. Parcels: Memories of Salvadoran Migration
Anastario, Mike
Rutgers University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780813595238. $99.95.
 

14. Cuban City Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century
Lucero, Bonnie A.
University of Alabama Press. 2019. ISBN 9780817320034. $54.95.
 

15. What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Forche, Carolyn
Penguin Books. 2019. ISBN 9780525560371. $28.
 

16. America: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
Goodwin, Robert
Bloomsbury. 2019. 9781632867223. $40.
 

17. Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
Arana, Marie
Simon & Schuster. 2019. 9781501104244. $30.
 

18. The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
Starn, Orin
W. W Norton. 2019. ISBN 9780393292800. $28.95.
 

19. Cantoras
De Robertis, Carolina
Alfred A Knopf. 2019. ISBN 9780525521693. $26.95.
 

20. Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America
Elsey, Brenda
University of Texas Press. 2019. ISBN 9781477310427. $27.95

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