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  • Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico

    Men, Women, and War

    Series series Diálogos Series
    In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women-preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter-and the elites' desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy.The three key figures of nineteenth-century Mexico-Antonio López de Santa Ana, Benito Juárez, and Porfirio Díaz-are engagingly reinterpreted. But the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Pesos and Politics

    Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854-1940

    The relationship between business and politics is crucial to understanding Mexican history, and Pesos and Politics explores this relationship from the mid-nineteenth century dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz through the Mexican Revolution (1876–1940). Historian Mark Wasserman argues that throughout this era, over the course of successive regimes, there was an evolving enterprise system that had to ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Modern Latin America Since 1800

    Everyday Life and Politics

    Series series History (R0)
    This textbook offers an interpretive overview of the history of the Latin American region since the mid-eighteenth century. Its central focus is the struggle of ordinary folks to control their daily lives. It examines the social, economic, and political institutions Latin Americans built and rebuilt, such as families, governments (from village to national levels), churches, political parties, ... Read more

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  • Persistent Oligarchs

    Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico 1910–1940

    Did the Mexican Revolution do away with the ruling class of the old regime? Did a new ruling class rise to take the old one's place—and if so, what differences resulted? In this compelling study, the first of its kind, Mark Wasserman pursues these questions through an analysis of the history and politics of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua from 1910 to 1940.Chihuahua boasted one of the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Key to Solomon's Key

    Is This the Lost Symbol of Masonry?

    Sketching out a fascinating network of historic figures, cults, and Christendom, this book by an occult-studies expert and respected authority on magic and sorcery takes Western spiritual traditions seriously—but examines them with common sense and self-effacing humor. Working backward from the Freemasons to one of their original orders, the 14th-century Knights Templar, the account considers ... Read more

    $13.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Waking Dark

    Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 40 min

    The Waking Dark is “a horror story worthy of Stephen King” (Booklist) and “a book you won’t soon forget” (Cassandra Clare, author of the Mortal Instruments series)—perfect for readers of Gillian Flynn and Rick Yancey.They called it the killing day. Twelve people murdered, in the space of a few hours, their killers also all dead by their own hand . . . except one. And that one has no answers to ... Read more

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    The Witch Hunter

    Narrated by Nicola Barber ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    The magic and suspense of Graceling meet the political intrigue and unrest of Game of Thrones in this riveting fantasy debut.Your greatest enemy isn't what you fight, but what you fear.Elizabeth Grey is one of the king's best witch hunters, devoted to rooting out witchcraft and doling out justice. But when she's accused of being a witch herself, Elizabeth is arrested and sentenced to burn at the ... Read more

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  • The young naval captain : The war of all nations

    In "The Young Naval Captain: The War of All Nations," Edward Stratemeyer crafts an engaging narrative that captures the spirit of youthful ambition against the backdrop of a global conflict. Through the lens of a young captain navigating the treacherous waters of naval warfare, Stratemeyer deftly intertwines adventure with themes of bravery, camaraderie, and moral fortitude. Written in a dynamic, ... Read more

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  • The Key of Solomon the King (annotated)

    In presenting this celebrated magical work to the student of occult science some few prefatory remarks are necessary.The Key of Solomon, save for a curtailed and incomplete copy published in France in the seventeenth century, has never yet been printed, but has for centuries remained in Manuscript form inaccessible to all but the few fortunate scholars to whom the inmost recesses of the great ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Isis Unveiled

    Vol. I & II

    Isis Unveiled is a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. With the help of this book you will be able to make sense of how so many of the world's peaceful and beautiful religions have been changed by those in charge of said religions. H. P. Blavatsky's knowledge of religious minutia is immense and her assertions will challenge the way you look at the world. She ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Open Veins of Latin America

    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • The Oxford History of Mexico

    The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of Mexican history, from religion to technology, ethnicity, ecology and mass media, are analyzed with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD