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  • On the Border

    Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico

    by María S. Arbeláez, Daniel D. Arreola, Juan Cabeza de Baca, Vincent Cabeza de Baca, Travis Du Bry, Josiah McC. Hayman, Víctor Manuel Macías-González, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Eric Michael Schantz, Lawrence D. Taylor, Paul Vanderwood, Devra Weber ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.DMexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of mining and the rise of Tijuana, the book examines a number of aspects of the region's social and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Conquest of New Spain

    by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    Bernal Diaz was an eyewitness to one of history's most remarkable events - the conquest of the Empire of the Aztecs, and the defeat of their Emperor Montezuma.The indomitable Diaz delivers his chronicle first-hand, vividly describing the ruthless battles, the brilliant Machiavellian strategies of Cortes, and the superstitions vacillations of Montezuma that lead to the momentous overthrow of the ... Read more

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  • Santa

    A Novel of Mexico City

    by Federico Gamboa ...
    Translated by John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City’s most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success, including the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Maize

    Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

    by Elizabeth Fitting ...
    When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on the extent to which gene flow from transgenic to local varieties threatens maize biodiversity, anti-GM ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico

    Edited by John Gledhill, Patience A. Schell ...
    Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering the colonial period to the present day, the case studies in this collection suggest that, even if ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Standing on Common Ground

    The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland

    by Geraldo L. Cadava ...
    Under constant surveillance and policed by increasingly militarized means, Arizona's border is portrayed in the media as a site of sharp political and ethnic divisions. But this view obscures the region's deeper history. Bringing to light the shared cultural and commercial ties through which businessmen and politicians forged a transnational Sunbelt, Standing on Common Ground recovers the vibrant ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Delirio—The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel

    The Buried History of Nuevo León

    by Marie Theresa Hernández ...
    Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of an entire, secret city hidden under modern-day Monterrey. All these stories have no place or corroboration in the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Logic of Compromise in Mexico

    How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism

    by Gladys I. McCormick ...
    In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Braceros

    Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

    by Deborah Cohen ...
    At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Maximillian and Mexico, Illustrated

    by John Heard Jr ...
    An abbreviated history of Maximillian's ill fated Mexican Empire arranged by and abandoned by Napoleon. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940

    by John Mason Hart, Nicholas Villanueva Jr., Don M. Coerver, Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga, Linda B. Hall, Francisco E. Balderrama, Jürgen Buchenau, Lewis E. Stephen0, Assad Marti´nez Carlos1, Thomas Benjamin2 ...
    Series Book 44 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book.These essays, the result of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fifth Sun

    Aztec Gods, Aztec World

    by Burr Cartwright Brundage ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it—Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird. Burr Cartwright ... Read more

    $26.99 USD