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  • Peripheral Visions

    Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan

    by Eric N. Baklanoff, Othon Banos Ramirez, Eugene M. Wilson, Marie Lapointe, Paul K. Eiss, Lynda S. Morrison0, Stephanie J. Smith1, Dr. Terry Rugeley3 ...
    The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicitedYucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Beyond Alterity

    Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico

    by Paula López Caballero, Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo, Paul K. Eiss ...
    The concept of “indigenous” has been entwined with notions of exoticism and alterity throughout Mexico’s history. In Beyond Alterity, authors from across disciplines question the persistent association between indigenous people and radical difference, and demonstrate that alterity is often the product of specific political contexts.Although previous studies have usually focused on the most visible ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • In the Name of El Pueblo

    Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Paul Eiss, PhD ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The term “el pueblo” is used throughout Latin America, referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to “the people” as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and historical analysis of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, Paul K. Eiss explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo and the power of the concept to unite the diverse claims made in its name. Eiss focuses on working-class ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Fernando Coronil Reader

    The Struggle for Life Is the Matter

    by Fernando Coronil ...
    In The Fernando Coronil Reader Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Mestizo Acts

    Edited by Paul K Eiss, Joanne Rapport ...
    The term "mestizaje" is generally translated as race mixture, with races typically understood as groups differentiated by skin color or other physical characteristics. Yet such understandings seem contradicted by contemporary understandings of race as a cultural construct, or idea, rather than as a biological entity. How might one then approach mestizaje in a way that is not definitionally ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • El Sicario

    The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin

    Edited by Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden ...
    In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI, and who for twenty years kidnapped, tortured and murdered people for the ... Read more

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  • 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

  • A Time to Stand

    The Epic of the Alamo

    by Walter Lord ...
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo."Probably the best of all Alamo accounts . . . a history which should last." — The New York Times Book ReviewLooking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oxford History of Mexico

    by William Beezley; Michael Meyer ...
    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

  • Tlacaelel Remembered

    Mastermind of the Aztec Empire

    by Susan Schroeder, Ph.D ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398–1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was “the beginning and origin” of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica. Brother of the first Moteuczoma, Tlacaelel would become “the most powerful, feared, and esteemed man of all that the world had seen up to that time.” But this outsize figure of Aztec history has also long been shrouded in mystery. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Oak Island Unearthed!

    a miner's investigation into the enigma of Oak Island, the Mesoamericans, and the treasures buried therein

    by John O. O'Brien ...
    Oak Island Unearthed! --book description- back cover.John O’Brien first learned about Oak Island in 1958 at the age of twelve, listening intently as his pharmacist father and a Saint Mary’s University professor debated, for an entire winter, the merits of existing theories of Oak Island and the mysterious lost treasures of the world.After fifty-five years of research and puzzling over this mystery ... Read more

    $5.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paisanos

    The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face of Latin America

    by Tim Fanning ...
    The epic story of the forgotten Irish men and women who changed the face of Latin America forever.In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the ... Read more

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