- Bitter Fruit
- Stephen Schlesinger
- Stephen Kinzer
- Introduction by John H. Coatsworth
- Foreword by Richard A. Nuccio
- Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. This book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
- Paperback 2005
- Blood of Brothers
- With New Afterword
- Stephen Kinzer
- Foreword by Merilee S. Grindle
- Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. Blood of Brothers is Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, as well as a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people.
- Paperback 2007
- Coffee and Power
- Jeffery M. Paige
- In the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as deathsquad-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua. Yet when the fighting ended, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. In a landmark book that fuses political economy and cultural analysis, Jeffery Paige shows that both the divergent political histories and their convergent outcome were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. His analysis challenges current theories of dictatorship and democracy, and shows that revolution in Central America is deeply rooted in the histories of the coffee elites.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Writings for a Liberation Psychology
- Ignacio Martín-Baró
- Edited by Adrianne Aron
- Edited by Shawn Corne
- Foreword by Elliot G. Mishler
- A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago and tragically killed by a Salvadoran death squad in 1989, Ignacio Martín-Baró devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual. This collection of his writings, the first in English translation, clarifies Martín-Baró's importance in Latin American psychology and reveals a major force in the field of social theory.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1996