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  • International Women's Year

    The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History

    by Jocelyn Olcott ...
    Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in history." The event drew an all-star cast of characters, including Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Iranian Princess Ashraf ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • A Century of Revolution

    Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Friedrich Katz, Jocelyn Olcott ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

    by Jocelyn H. Olcott, Robyn Wiegman, Inderpal Grewal ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing beliefs about the masculine foundations of citizenship. Piecing together material from national and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sex in Revolution

    Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico

    Edited by Mary Kay Vaughan, Gabriela Cano, Jocelyn H. Olcott ...
    Sex in Revolution challenges the prevailing narratives of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation by placing women at center stage. Bringing to bear decades of feminist scholarship and cultural approaches to Mexican history, the essays in this book demonstrate how women seized opportunities created by modernization efforts and revolutionary upheaval to challenge conventions of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Academic's Handbook, Fourth Edition

    Revised and Expanded

    Edited by Lori A. Flores, Jocelyn H. Olcott ...
    In recent years, the academy has undergone significant changes: a more competitive and volatile job market has led to widespread precarity, teaching and service loads have become more burdensome, and higher education is becoming increasingly corporatized. In this revised and expanded edition of The Academic's Handbook, more than fifty contributors from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Agrarian Crossings

    Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside

    by Tore C. Olsson ...
    Series series America in the World
    In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as reformers in each nation came to exchange models, plans, and strategies with their equivalents across ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory

    Edited by Norman Hammond, Gordon R. Willey ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization.The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican Archaeology and are presented in three major sections.The first of these ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Alone Before God

    The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico

    by Pamela Voekel ...
    Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable ... Read more

    $25.19 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

  • The Creation of Anne Boleyn

    A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

    by Susan Bordo ...
    This illuminating history examines the life and many legends of the 16th century Queen who was executed by her husband, King Henry VIII.Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and a revealing look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is her story so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? Was she ... Read more

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  • Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    by Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz ...
    “Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library JournalMichael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz.The seventh edition incorporates new ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Survivors in Mexico

    by Rebecca West ...
    A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writersDame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition. West tackles the country's broad historical legacy—the ... Read more

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