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  • Wandering Peoples

    Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850

    by Cynthia Radding, PhD ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise
    Wandering Peoples is a chronicle of cultural resiliency, colonial relations, and trespassed frontiers in the borderlands of a changing Spanish empire. Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, Cynthia Radding explores the social process of peasant class formation and the cultural persistence of Indian communities during the long transitional period between Spanish ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Landscapes of Power and Identity

    Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic

    by Cynthia Radding, PhD ...
    Landscapes of Power and Identity is a groundbreaking comparative history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empire—the Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia’s lowlands—from the late colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth century. An innovative combination of environmental and cultural history, this book reflects Cynthia Radding ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Los Zetas Inc.

    Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico

    by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera ...
    The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government’s response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Archaeology of La Calsada

    A Rockshelter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico

    by C. Roger Nance ...
    Series series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
    On a remote mountainside 2,000 meters above sea level in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental, the rockshelter at La Calsada has yielded basic archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. This comprehensive site report, with detailed information on artifacts and stratigraphy, provides baseline data for further ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Leaving Tabasco

    A Novel

    by Carmen Boullosa ...
    A young woman encounters strange events in her Mexican hometown in this novel by an author who "immerses us…in her wickedly funny and imaginative world" ( Latina).Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming of age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. In Agustini it is not unusual to see your grandmother float above the bed when she sleeps, or to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán

    Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876

    by Dr. Douglas W. Richmond, Ph.D. ...
    The Yucatán Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics on them. Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán provides a rigorously researched study of the vexed and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Life and Times of Mexico

    by Earl Shorris ...
    A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2004. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico."--History TodayThe Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic lives of workers in assembly plants along the border, and the experiences of millions of Mexicans ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Mexico in World History

    by William H. Beezley ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley highlights the penetrating effect of ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • A Line in the Sand

    The Alamo in Blood and Memory

    by Randy Roberts, James S. Olson ...
    Acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and James Olson use a wealth of archival sources—including the diary of José Enrique de la Peña—to retell the story of the Alamo for a new generation of Americans.In late February and early March of 1836, the Mexican Army—commanded by General Antonio López de Santa Anna—besieged a small force of Anglo and Tejano rebels at a mission known as the Alamo. The ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Conquest

    Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Series series Gift for History Buffs
    Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Cortés and Montezuma

    by Maurice Collis ...
    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution

    Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Jürgen Buchenau ...
    In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process ... Read more

    $20.19 USD