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  • Masiosare, nuestro extraño enemigo

    Después del éxito rotundo de Los mitos que nos dieron traumas, llega la esperada segunda parte.México necesita una transformación. Sólo tú puedes hacerla.Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nuevamente nos quita la venda de los ojos para hacernos responsables del país y de sus circunstancias.Masiosare se esconde en el pasado, en la profundidad de nuestramente, y detrás de muchos de nuestros mitos. Está o... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Epic Mexico

    A History from Its Earliest Times

    Spanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engaging. The book’s story reaches from the days of the saber-tooth tiger to those of its perhaps more dangerous modern counterpart, the narco-trafficker; and from the time of the Olmec and the Aztec ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Fifth Sun

    A New History of the Aztecs

    In November 1519, Hernando Cort?s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $15.99 USD

  • Old Villita and La Villita Continues

    Old Villita is reissued by Wings Press in celebration of the Tricentennial of the founding of San Antonio, Texas on May 5, 1718. It was originally published in 1939 by the City of San Antonio as part of the American Guide Series (Federal Writers Project, under the Work Projects Administration). It was overseen and edited by the mayor of San Antonio, Maury Maverick, Sr. Earlier in the 1930s, U.S. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violence and Crime in Latin America

    Representations and Politics

    According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Written by ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Albores de la República en México

    Series Book 7 - Historia de los países latinoamericanos
    La rica pero convulsa historia de México es pródiga en episodios que mezclan culturales, fomentan nacionalismo y constituyen ejemplo para otros países del mundo. A manera de ejemplo estos son los temas que trata el libro:Don Agustín de Iturbide se embarcó en Veracruz el día 11 de mayo para el puerto de Liorna, juntamente con su familia, y la nación mexicana quedó entregada al combate de las ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

    Testimony and Social Movements

    by Lynn Stephen ...
    A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mexico: Democracy Interrupted

    In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the PAN victory were not consolidated. In this vivid account of Mexico's recent history, a journalist with ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • South to Freedom

    Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

    A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico.The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Oaxaca Resurgent

    Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico

    Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham traces the contested history of indigenous development and the trajectory of the Mexican government's Instituto Nacional Indigenista, the most ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Dying to Live

    A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid

    by Joseph Nevins ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Book will be published on May 1st, 2008, the third anniversary of “A Day Without A Mexican,” the major national immigrant protests. The complex topic of immigration becomes a visceral experience for the reader through the telling of one man’s story, and his ultimate death. Congress will likely still be debating legislation on immigration. This book informs that discussion. This book picks up where ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds

    Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

    An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural synthesis--mestizaje--that has defined the Mexican people since the Spanish conquest in the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Relación de las cosas de Yucatán

    Landa found similarities between Christianity and the Mayan religion with regard to human sacrifice and blood offerings. Associating these offerings with the sacrificial character of the figure of Christ, who gave his life for mankind. Landa devoted himself to the study of Mayan culture. This is a work of reference for understanding the Mayan world. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsettled Land

    From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

    by Sam W. Haynes ...
    A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regionsThe Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940

    This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social uprising of the twentieth century. In 1911, land-hungry peasants united with discontented political elites to overthrow General Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled Mexico for three decades. Gonzales offers a path breaking overview of the revolution from its ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Yesterday in Mexico

    A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936

    Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W. F. Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico’s emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told—by letting events speak for themselves, without any interpretations or appraisal.The resultant book offers an interesting paradox: it is ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Morir en el Intento

    La Peor Tragedia de Immigrantes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos

    by Jorge Ramos ...
    La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso... Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo y mejores oportunidades de vida. Pero para un grupo de inmigrantes que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente y se subió a un trailer la noche del 13 de mayo del 2003, este sueño se tornó en una tragedia. Al menos 73 personas ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

    by Sally Denton ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection“The Colony is one of the most gripping and disturbing true stories I’ve ever come across.” —Douglas PrestonAn investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico—an event that drew international attention—The Colony examines the strange, little-understood world of a polygamist Mormon outpost.**On the morning of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Heritage History of Mexico

    "Remarkably well balanced and sound . . . " - The New Republic. Here, from award-winning historian Henry Bamford Parkes and the editors of American Heritage, is the dramatic story of Mexico - from the Aztecs, Maya, and other ancient peoples who gave birth to a vast civilization to the Spanish Conquest, the Mexican-American War, the Mexican Revolution, and Mexico's role in World War II. Historian ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drug Wars

    The Mexican Cartels

    by Al Cimino ...
    With the suppression of the Colombian cartels, the Mexican crime syndicates took over the Latin American drug trade, controlling ninety per cent of the cocaine entering the US. This is their story. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • La última princesa mexica

    Series series Interés General Porrúa
    Mirando los viejos papeles del siglo XVI, en la soledad de los archivos históricos de mi país y de España, surge a través de sus letras un rostro triste, la figura de una niña indígena, abandonada a su suerte en manos de Hernán Cortés. Y veo al conquistador, un hombre que ya no es joven y posee el talante altivo, seco, de quien ama el poder y anhela la gloria, como premio a lo considerado por él ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Forget the Alamo

    The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

    **A New York Times bestseller!“Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review"Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal“Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston ChronicleThree noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $9.99 USD