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selected backlist & bestsellers
The
ChILe
ReadeR
History, Culture, PolitiCs
The
dominican republic
reader
History, Culture, PolitiCs
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison,
Thomas Miller Klubock,
Nara B. Milanich,
and Peter Winn, editors
Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González, editors
The Argentina Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Gabriela Nouzeilles and
Graciela Montaldo, editors
2002
978–0–8223–2914–5
paper, $27.95tr/£17.99
The Chile Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison,
Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara B.
Milanich, and Peter Winn, editors
2013
978–0–8223–5360–7
paper, $29.95tr/£19.99
The Cuba Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and
Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, editors
2004
978–0–8223–3197–1
paper, $29.95tr/£19.99
The Dominican Republic Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby,
and Raymundo González, editors
2014
978–0–8223–5700–1
paper, $27.95tr/£17.99
tHis reader brings togetHer more than 200 texts and images in a
broad introduction to Guatemala’s history, culture, and politics. In choosing
the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in
terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while
offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala
as a real place where people experience joys and sorrows that cannot
be reduced to the contretemps of resistance and repression. It includes
not only the opinions of politicians, activists, and scholars, but also poems,
songs, plays, jokes, novels, short stories, recipes, art, and photographs that
capture the diversity of everyday life in Guatemala. The editors introduce
all of the selections, from the first piece, an excerpt from the Popol vuh, a
mid-sixteenth-century text believed to be the single most important source
documenting pre-Hispanic Maya culture, through the final selections, which
explore contemporary Guatemala in relation to neoliberalism, multiculturalism,
and the dynamics of migration to the United States and of immigrant
life. Many pieces were originally published in Spanish, and most of those appear
in English for the first time.
“The Guatemala Reader is captivating both because Guatemalan history is so
compelling, and because the editors have done a fantastic job of choosing
the texts and images to include. Their selections offer great variety in terms
of vision, perspective, and genre, and their introductions to those pieces are
uniformly superb.”—steve striffler, co-editor of The Ecuador Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
“This excellent and comprehensive collection of historical and contemporary
materials about Guatemala is a seminal addition to the literature. It is brilliantly
put together, and it will be useful not only as an introduction for students
but also as a reference source for scholars.”—beatriz Manz, author
of Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope
greg grandin is Professor of History at New York University and a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Fordlandia:
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize in History. deboraH t. levenson is Associate Professor
of History at Boston College and the author of Trade Unionists against Terror:
Guatemala City, 1954–1985 and Adiós Niño: Political Violence and the Gangs of Guatemala
City, forthcoming from Duke University Press. elizabetH oglesby
is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development and the
Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. She previously
worked as the editor of Central America Report and the associate editor
for NACLA Report on the Americas.
duke university Press
Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660 www.dukeupress.edu
Cover: Easter celebrations in Guatemala City, April 2010.
Photo by James Rodríguez, mimundo.org.
Travel / Latin
American
Studies
tHe
latin
aMeriCa
readers
A Series
Edited by
Robin Kirk
and
Orin Starn
Grandin,
Levenson
&
Oglesby,
editors
The GuaTemala ReadeR
History, Culture, PolitiCs
duke
The
GuaTemala
ReadeR
History,
Culture,
PolitiCs
Edited by Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, & Elizabeth Oglesby
The Ecuador Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Carlos de la Torre
and Steve Striffler, editors
2009
978–0–8223–4374–5
paper, $26.95tr/£17.99
The Guatemala Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson,
and Elizabeth Oglesby, editors
2011
978–0–8223–5107–8
paper, $29.95tr/£19.99
The Mexico Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Gilbert M. Joseph and
Timothy J. Henderson, editors
2003
978–0–8223–3042–4
paper, $27.95tr/£17.99
The Paraguay Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Peter Lambert and
Andrew Nickson, editors
2013
978–0–8223–5268–6
paper, $27.95tr/£17.99
The
SouTh AfricA
reAder
The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the
island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island’s recorded
history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration
from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist
and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and
European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the
British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country’s multiple linguistic
and religious communities, as well as its political travails after independence
in 1948, especially the ethnic violence that recurred from the 1950s until 2009,
when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan
government’s armed forces. This wide-ranging anthology covers the aboriginal
Veddhas, the earliest known inhabitants of the island; the Kings of Kandy,
Sri Lanka’s last indigenous dynasty; twenty-first-century women who leave
the island to work as housemaids in the Middle East; the forty thousand Sri
Lankans killed by the tsunami in December 2004; and, through cutting-edge
journalism and heart-wrenching poetry, the protracted violence that has
scarred the country’s contemporary political history. Along with fifty-four images
of paintings, sculptures, and architecture, The Sri Lanka Reader includes
more than ninety classic and contemporary texts written by Sri Lankans and
foreigners.
History, Culture, PolitiCs
Sri Lanka/Travel
the The
World
readers SRI Lanka
A Series ReadeR
Edited by
Robin Kirk John Clifford Holt,
and
Orin Starn editor
The
SRI Lanka
ReadeR
history, Culture, PolitiCs
“The Sri Lanka Reader is unprecedented. Never before has there been a book
so synoptic in its treatment of Sri Lankan history, politics, and culture. The
overall organization, the selections chosen for inclusion, and the introductions
to the individual pieces are all of the highest order. This book will be
welcomed by specialists in Sri Lankan studies, as well as the more general,
educated reader.”—roger r. JaCkson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian
Studies and Religion, Carleton College
“John Holt’s The Sri Lanka Reader gives many insights into contemporary Sri
Lanka while providing an in-depth picture of its rich history. Holt effectively
weaves together documents, analytical accounts, photographs, and poetic
works to produce a balanced work that is consistent in quality and readability
despite accommodating many viewpoints. It is a book that you will return to
time and again. It will undoubtedly become the standard collection of documents
on Sri Lanka and its history.”—Chandra r. de silva, author of Sri
Lanka: A History
John Clifford holt is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities
in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.
duke university Press
Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660
Clifton Crais www.dukeupress.edu
and Thomas V. McClendon, editors
Cover photograph courtesy of Adele Barker
duke
John Clifford holt, editor
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The Peru Reader:
History, Culture, Politics,
SECOND EDITION
Orin Starn, Carlos Iván Degregori,
and Robin Kirk, editors
2005
978–0–8223–3649–5
paper, $28.95tr/£18.99
The Bangladesh Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Meghna Guhathakurta and
Willem van Schendel, editors
2013
978–0–8223–5318–8
paper, $27.95tr/£17.99
The South Africa Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
Clifton Crais and Thomas
V. McClendon, editors
2013
978–0–8223–5529–8
paper, $29.95tr/£19.99
The Sri Lanka Reader:
History, Culture, Politics
John Clifford Holt, editor
2011
978–0–8223–4982–2
paper, $34.95tr/£22.99