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Latin America has been of vital importance to the United States almost since the birth of our nation, and the significance of this relationship has only increased in recent decades. But mutual understanding between these regions is lacking, even as Latin Americans are striving to promote the values of democracy in their native countries and beyond. Why has this process proved to be such a struggle, and what does the future of the region hold? ...

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A "magisterial history" ("The Wall Street Journal"), this sweeping volume tells Mexico's story through the fascinating and sometimes volatile personalities that have shaped it. 47 illustrations. 4 maps.

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Travesia liberal offers the key to understand different moments in history, all the way from Imperial Spain up to September 11th, and sheds new light upon the unstable beginning of the 21st century. Only a historian of Enrique Krauze's caliber could have linked episodes as distant in time and place as the Neozapatista movement and the Holocaust, the Velvet Revolution and the indigenous humanism, or the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Israel...

Through essays and images, this book tells of the different ways in which Mexico's past (the pre-Hispanic period, the conquest, the evangelization and the viceroyalty) was seen during the passionate, dramatic nineteenth century. It is a history peopled alike by the great figures of history and the humble heroes of historiography who were in charge of recovering the historical writings and documents of the country.

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Third volume in a profusely illustrated series of eight dedicated to the men whose deeds have contributed to forming modern Mexico. This issue is dedicated to the enigmatic figure of General Emiliano Zapata, to his struggle to recover possession of the land in Morelos, and to the story of his ideological proect and the study of its repercussions.

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In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists. Here are the Cuban José Martí, the Argentines Che Guevara and Evita Perón, political thinkers like Mexico’s José Vasconcelos, and the w...