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  • Mexico City Mobilities

    The People, Politics, and Pathways that Built a Metropolis

    by Michael K. Bess ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    An essential resource for students and scholars of Latin American history, urban studies, and the history of mobility and transport.Mexico City Mobilities is the first comprehensive study to place regional mobility and transportation infrastructure at the center of the Mexican capital’s two-hundred-year history. Beginning in 1824, when a fledgling national capital began to define its political and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Routes of Compromise

    Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952

    by Michael K. Bess ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local, national, and transnational levels, helped determine how Mexico would build and finance its roadways ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Murder City

    Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

    by Charles Bowden ...
    Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad.In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Indianapolis 500

    A Century of Excitement

    by Ralph Kramer ...
    The Greatest Spectacle in RacingSince the dawn of automotive racing, the world's best drivers have tested their skills, bravery and the limits of speed in the legendary Indianapolis 500. The winner claims the historic Borg-Warner Trophy, and racing immortality.Officially licensed in cooperation with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis 500: A Century of Excitement tells the compelling and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Flights of No Return

    Aviation History's Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality

    by Steven A. Ruffin ...
    Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn't end as planned. The history of aviation is full of accounts of history's most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return? - A celebrated millionaire--who also happened to be the world's foremost aviator--lifted off in a small plane one clear morning in 2007 and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Making of a Market

    Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850–1900

    by Juliette Levy ...
    During the nineteenth century, Yucatán moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucatán and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • 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

  • Mexico Behind the Mask

    A Narrative, Past and Present

    by Beldon Butterfield ...
    In light of current events related to immigration issues, the drug war along the border, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Beldon Butterfield's insightful and informative history of the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States is both timely and useful.Butterfield went to Mexico with Time Inc. in 1962 and has lived there ever since, enabling him to provide a unique ... Read more

    $29.95 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

  • Indigenous Citizens

    Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatán

    by Karen D. Caplan ...
    Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply entrenched in Mexico's regions, but only on locally acceptable terms.Faced with the common challenge ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • San Miguel de Allende

    Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

    by Lisa Pinley Covert ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico—worked to demonstrate that it ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus