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The Path Between the Seas
by David McCullough

The hundred year long saga of the American rule of the canal zone

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Chile: El Otro 11 De Septiembre
The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections and Commentaries on the 1973 Coup in Chile)
Pilar Aguilera (Editor)

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Mesoamerica: Aztecs, Maya and Incas

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Che Guevara: a Revolutionary Life
by Jon Lee Anderson 1998

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Che Guevara was a dashing, charismatic figure: the asthmatic son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary

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Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (Oxford Latin American Histories)
by Louis Perez

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authoritative, somewhat scholarly, history of Cuba

The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization
by Walter D Mignolo

a discussion of the role of language in the colonization of the New World - combining literature, geography, and political and cultural history

Fidel:
A Critical Portrait
by Tad Szulc

Szulc had access to many hours of interviews with Castro, friends and associates, and the Cuban archives for this revealing biography

The Spanish War: An American Epic--1898
by G.J.A. O'Toole

America and the Spanish American war - setting off an era of American imperialism iin Latin America

Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola
by Michael Wucker rev 2001

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The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto.