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  • Day of the Dead

    The History of a Celebration

    A stunning bilingual, illustrated, and photographic account of a celebrated Mexican traditionThe lively Mexican holiday of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) brings together sorrow and laughter, drawing from indigenous traditions of celebrating one’s ancestors and loved ones who have been lost. It’s a day of serenity, family, and exuberant creativity, where sugar and skulls can exist side by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Pancho Villa

    The Definitive Biography

    Translated by Todd Chretien ...
    **A reevaluation of life the man who saved the Mexican Revolution, published on the 100th anniversary of his death.A wild ride and revealing portrait of the controversial Pancho Villa, one of Mexico’s most beloved (or loathed) heroes, that finally establishes the importance of his role in the triumph of the Mexican revolution by renowned crime writer Paco Ignacio Taibo tII.**The last biography of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Paradise of the Damned

    The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold

    by Keith Thomson ...
    The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city’s treasureAs early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border

    Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State

    by John Weber ...
    An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas.At the Texas-Mexico border in the 1910s and 1920s, William Hanson was a witness to, and an active agent of, history. As a Texas Ranger captain and then a top official in the Immigration Service, he ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Visible Ruins

    The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico's Revolution

    Series series Visualidades: Studies in Latin American Visual History
    An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records.The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists reconstructed pre-Hispanic monuments ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Dancing on the Sun Stone

    Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

    Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz’s signature ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Five Suns

    A Fire History of Mexico

    A climate defined by wet and dry seasons, a mostly mountainous terrain, a biota prone to disturbances, a human geography characterized by a diversity of peoples all of whom rely on burning in one form or another: Mexico has ideal circumstances for fire, and those fires provide a unique perspective on its complex history.Narrating Mexico’s evolution of fire through five eras, historian Stephen J. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Habsburgs on the Rio Grande

    The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire

    by Raymond Jonas ...
    The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep.The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected opportunity for political conservatives across continents. On one side were European monarchs. Mere decades after its founding, the United States had ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The End of Catholic Mexico

    Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855–1861)

    by David Gilbert ...
    In The End of Catholic Mexico, historian David Gilbert provides a new interpretation of one of the defining events of Mexican history: the Reforma. During this period, Mexico was transformed from a Catholic confessional state into a modern secular nation, sparking a three-year civil war in the process. While past accounts have portrayed the Reforma as a political contest, ending with a liberal ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Biocosmism

    Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico

    Series series Critical Mexican Studies
    Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution. In Biocosmism, Jorge Quintana Navarrete shifts the focus to examine how a group of scientists, artists, and philosophers conceived ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Californios

    The Heroic Deed Of The Sonoran Basques

    This historical novel is the work of Carlos Peralta Dávila, a lawyer from Hermosillo and a dear friend of over 40 years.The Californios tells the story of a character born in 1759 in Tubac, Arizona, who was part of colonial Sonora. Luis María Peralta Valenzuela was a decorated military man known for his loyalty, discipline, integrity, and bravery. He was part of the famous 'Spanish leather dragons ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico

    Rituals, Religion, and Revenue

    Series series Diálogos Series
    Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico: Rituals, Religion, and Revenue examines the career of Juan Francisco Güemes y Horcasitas, viceroy of New Spain from 1746 to 1755. It provides the best account yet of how the colonial reform process most commonly known as the Bourbon Reforms did not commence with the arrival of José de Gálvez, the visitador general to New Spain appointed in 1765. Rather, Güemes, ennobled as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Las Guerras Bananeras: Una guía fascinante sobre las intervenciones de los Estados Unidos en Centroamérica, México y el Caribe

    El Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos ha luchado por Dios, la patria y las bananasEste libro trata sobre las guerras bananeras que tuvieron lugar entre el final de la guerra hispano-estadounidense en 1898 y la Política de buena vecindad de Franklin Roosevelt en 1934. Podrá ver cómo y por qué los marines estadounidenses invadieron Panamá, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Haití, México y ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summary of Jeff Guinn's War on the Border

    Get the Summary of Jeff Guinn's War on the Border in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "War on the Border" by Jeff Guinn provides a detailed account of the complex and often tumultuous relationship between the United States and Mexico in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The narrative begins with the early interactions between the two nations following Mexico's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ebrios y laboriosos: dos aproximaciones a la sociedad capitalina hacia el final del siglo XVIII

    “Tenemos que reformar la sociedad”. Esta frase nos resulta familiar porque, desde hace dos siglos, estamos convencidos de que algo anda mal y de que por eso hay guerras, violencia, agravios y rencores permanentes. ¿Acaso antes todo era paz y armonía? Sabemos que no, que el desorden y la maldad han existido siempre, pero un cambio se produjo en la actitud de los individuos del mundo occidental ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Verdad, justicia y memoria: derechos humanos y justicia transicional en México

    México se encuentra inmerso en una espiral de violencias criminal, política y social sin precedentes. Sería un error reducir esta sombría realidad al lucrativo negocio de las drogas, pero sería igualmente equivocado ignorar el papel que las cadenas internacionales de éstas, y las políticas que han buscado sujetarlas, han desempeñado como motores y multiplicadores de tales violencias. Los capítulos ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Historia económica del peso mexicano: del mercado global a la gestión política de la moneda

    En este volumen, producto del trabajo colectivo del grupo de investigación H-Monetaria, se registra el itinerario de la moneda producida en Nueva España y en México a lo largo de varios siglos. No se pretende hacer una historia exhaustiva, sino explorar los nudos de esa historia monetaria, recurriendo a procesos y transiciones que reflejan el carácter global de la moneda novohispana/mexicana. En ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The History of Ancient America

    Anterior to the Time of Columbus; Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites

    by George Jones ...
    "Proved, to our satisfaction at least, that the Tyrians were the Aborigines of Ancient America." -Atlas."The discovery of the ruins of several extensive and once beautiful cities among the forests of Central America, has led to many conjectures as to their origin; and Mr. GEORGE JONES...has devoted the last fifteen years to study and research....the conclusion...will no doubt at first startle the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Landing Uphill

    Seven Years at San Luis

    Award-winning historian Eleanor Swent writes about going as a young bride in 1947 to a remote silver mine in Tayoltita, Mexico, landing in the mountains inland from Mazatlan, in a canyon with a tilted landing strip. Drawing primarily from letters to family and friends, she recounts the challenges and rich rewards of life in a Mexico unseen by most visitors — a Mexico of deep personal connections ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Biggest Invasions Of Mexican Drug Cartels

    by RYAN CHAVEZ ...
    Enter the fascinating world of Mexico's past, where tense power relationships, bold invasions, and complex power dynamics have formed the country's history. The exciting journey that "The Biggest Invasions of Mexico's Drug Cartels" takes readers on reveals the little-known histories of some of the most infamous drug cartels in Mexican history.Along with leaving a permanent imprint on Mexico's ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rob's Revolting

    A Compilation of Previously Published Writings, Which Prove Conclusively...

    by rob los ricos ...
    The first-ever compilation of a few of Rob los Ricos' published writings, from Anarchy!: a Journal of Desire Armed, Green Anarchy, and his websites Anarchy and Chaos, and We Are Not Afraid of Ruins, with a few others from different sources.Rob's takes on Anarchist Revolution, Civilization, Racism, and Alternative History are gathered for display for the first time, with revisions a... ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Justicia, infrajusticia y sociedad en México

    Siglos XVIII a XXI

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Collection de la Casa de Velázquez
    Este libro estudia la relación del sistema de justicia con la sociedad en México desde una mirada histórica. Se parte de la idea de que ha habido un deterioro, una separación cada vez más amplia, en esta relación, proceso que parece haberse acelerado durante los siglos xix y xx. Los autores de este libro se han interesado en seguir, en diferentes momentos y espacios, a los diferentes actores ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Untold Story of the Conquest of Tenochtitlan: From Hernán Cortés' Arrival to the Fall of the Aztecs – The Conquest of America

    This is the story behind the conquest of the great Tenochtitlán: from the clash of cultures to the fall of the Aztecs. Get ready to embark on a journey that unravels the complexities of the time, weaves the past with the present, and awakens the echoes of an era that changed the world forever. Told like never before, with historical details that few are acquainted with."In the 16th century, a bold ... Read more

    $3.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die unerzählte Geschichte der Eroberung von Tenochtitlan: Von der Ankunft von Hernán Cortés bis zum Untergang der Azteken - Die Eroberung von Amerika

    Dies ist die Geschichte hinter der Eroberung des großartigen Tenochtitlán: vom Zusammenprall der Kulturen bis zum Untergang der Azteken. Mach dich bereit für eine Reise, die die Komplexitäten der Zeit enthüllt, die Vergangenheit mit der Gegenwart verwebt und die Echos einer Ära erweckt, die die Welt für immer verändert hat.Erzählt wie nie zuvor, mit historischen Fakten, die nur wenige kennen."Im ... Read more

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