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  • Testaments of Toluca

    Edited by Caterina Pizzigoni ...
    Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. Those published to date have largely been from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Testaments of Toluca presents a large body of Nahuatl wills (98) from 1652 to 1783 from an important valley not much studied, thus ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Violence and Naming

    On Mexico and the Promise of Literature

    Series series Border Hispanisms
    Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array of literary artifacts, from works by journalists such as Elena Poniatowska and Sergio González ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A Revolution Unfinished

    The Chegomista Rebellion and the Limits of Revolutionary Democracy in Juchitán, Oaxaca

    by Colby Ristow ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    In October 1911 the governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, ordered a detachment of approximately 250 soldiers to take control of the town of Juchitán from Jose F. “Che” Gomez and a movement defending the principle of popular sovereignty. The standoff between federal soldiers and the Chegomistas continued until federal reinforcements arrived and violently repressed the movement in the name of democracy.In A ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Chimalpahin's Conquest

    A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico

    Edited by Susan Schroeder ...
    This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian.Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, La conquista fell into the hands of the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Vida Indígena en la Colonia

    La corriente historiográfica moderna en torno a los pueblos de indios ha cuestionado las tácitas reminiscencias prehispánicas como herencia en los pueblos. Con ello se propone advertir una historia de los naturales, cambiante y dinámica, como respuesta a la adaptación colonial, como era natural, con todo lo que esto implicó en los diferentes ámbitos de la vida cotidiana. Es a partir de esta ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • México para los mexicanos. La revolución y sus adversarios

    by Lorenzo Meyer ...
    Series series Antologías
    Esta serie de Antologías busca ofrecer una muestra reducida pero representativa de los principales trabajos de algunos de los colegas de El Colegio dedicados, preferentemente, a los estudios sobre la Independencia o la Revolución. Los trabajos reimpresos en estas antologías en ocasiones fueron seleccionados por otros especialistas y en otras por ellos mismos. A los setenta años de su fundación El ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Looking Like the Enemy

    Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897–1945

    by Jerry García ...
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese citizens sought new opportunities abroad. By 1910, nearly ten thousand had settled in Mexico. Over time, they found work, put down roots, and raised families. But until now, very little has been written about their lives. Looking Like the Enemy is the first English-language history of the Japanese experience in Mexico.Japanese ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • La regulación imposible:

    (i)legalidad e (i)legitimidad en los mercados de tierra en México al inicio del siglo XXI

    ''En México, en 1992 fue reformado el artículo 27 constitucional. A la par, fueron emitidas leyes secundarias, entre éstas la Ley Agraria, con la innovación de permitir la entrada de actores privados en la explotación y aprovechamiento de tierras, aguas, bosques y minerales. Sin embargo, el sustancial cambio legal que supuso la apertura de las tierras ejidales a un mercado formal no generó las ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Mexico

    by Arthur Knoll ...
    Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Mexico is a concise overview of modern Mexican history. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La dama se suelta el chongo

    Preparación, ahínco y coraje para la vida son las cualidades de una mujer valiente que habla sin temor de esas emociones que todos experimentamos, pero casi nadie se atreve a exteriorizar. En La dama se suelta el chongo desfilan, con humor y entrañable sentimiento, las memorias de Laura Fernández MacGregor Maza: esposa, madre, hermana y amiga que por medio de una narración ágil, apasionada, franca ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orbe indiano

    De la monarquía católica a la república criolla, 1492-1867

    Translated by Juan José Utrilla ...
    Series series Historia
    Mural en el que se detallan con vigor y penetrante erudición las circunstancias que enmarcan y destacan una actitud presente en diversos momentos decisivos de nuestra historia. La independencia de las colonias españolas ilustra el patriotismo de los criollos y su actitud nacionalista, inspiradora en valores propios apartados de los europeos. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreaming of Dry Land

    Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City

    Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and protracted drainage project in the early modern America—the Desagüe de Huehuetoca. Hundreds of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • La Patria Que No Rumbo Al 2012

    Viva Mxico! Vivan los hroes que nos dieron patria! Muchos nos preguntamos A qu Mxico se refiere el presidente? A qu hroes? Hidalgo, Morelos? populistas disparadores de debacles. Iturbide dnde est? Jurez con su soberbia y arrogancia, vende patria en aras de una dictadura con todo y su mesianismo fue realmente un hroe? Maximiliano, Conchita Lombardo, Miramn y Meja traidores? Y qu de Don Porfirio? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • In the Lands of Fire and Sun

    Resistance and Accommodation in the Huichol Sierra, 1723–1930

    The Huichols (or Wixárika) of western Mexico are among the most resilient and iconic indigenous groups in Mexico today. In the Lands of Fire and Sun examines the Huichol Indians as they have struggled to maintain their independence over two centuries. From the days of the Aztec Empire, the history of west-central Mesoamerica has been one of isolation and a fiercely independent spirit, and one ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Mexican Exodus

    Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War

    In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government. Bearing aloft the banners of Christ the King and the Virgin of Guadalupe, they equipped themselves not only with guns, but also with scapulars, rosaries, prayers, and religious visions. These soldiers were called cristeros, and the war they fought, which would continue until the mid-1930s, is known as la ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Life Within

    Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800

    The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period—as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out, focusing first on the household—buildings, lots, household saints—and expanding outward toward the householders and the greater community. The internal focus of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Historia mínima del constitucionalismo en América latina

    Este libro es una introducción a la cultura política generada por el constitucionalismo en América Latina. La construcción de sociedades democráticas en buena medida depende de cumplir deberes y gozar de derechos que fijan las Constituciones. Entender su génesis y desenvolvimiento es el objetivo central de esta obra. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Quetzalcóatl y Guadalupe

    La formación de la conciencia nacional en México. Abismo de conceptos. Identidad, nación, mexicano

    Ensayo de historia cultural en el que se plantea el papel de los factores espirituales en la formación de la conciencia nacional de México de los siglos XVI al XIX. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apuntes para servir a la historia de los defensores de Puebla que fueron conducidos prisioneros a Francia; enriquecidos con documentos auténticos por el general Epitacio Huerta

    La batalla del 5 de Mayo y el Sitio de Puebla representan a la vez un triunfo y una derrota militares, son dos caras de una prolongada lucha que libró el país para consolidar su soberanía, su independencia y su identidad. Esta es una publicación que recopila testimonios, ensayos, interpretaciones. Es un homenaje a los hombres y mujeres que defendieron a México. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Mexico's Unrule of Law

    Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization

    Mexico's crisis of security is unrelenting. Why is it so hard to establish the rule of law, and why does the country's justice system continue to struggle to deliver both security and adherence to democratic values and human rights? To answer these questions, Mexico Unrule of Law: Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Border Towns and Border Crossings

    A History of the U.S.-Mexico Divide

    by Roger Bruns ...
    This is a compelling and revealing look at the history of the U.S.-Mexico border as a place, a symbol of cross-cultural melding, and a source of growing anxiety over immigration and national security.The U.S.-Mexico border is far more than a line that separates two countries. A winding path of nearly 2,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, it is history, commerce, and culture. In ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Working Women into the Borderlands

    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mexico City, 1808

    Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution

    by John Tutino ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, desperate to gain New Spain’s silver. He broke Spain’s monarchy, setting off a summer of ferment in Mexico City. People took to the streets, dreaming of an absent king, seeking popular sovereignty, and imagining that the wealth ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • En route vers le désert

    Recueil danecdotes dun archéologue dans le Sonora daujourdhui

    Series Book 2 - Archéologie Extrême
    Dans ce voyage de la Sierra Madre occidentale à la mer auquel il nous convie, Júpiter Martínez nous promène, entre anecdotes et scènes de la vie quotidienne, dans lincroyable et parfois dangereuse géographie du Sonora. Ce deuxième ouvrage de la série Archéologie Extrême est un récit personnel qui nous révèle la face cachée du métier darchéologue. Cest avec beaucoup desprit, daudace et dhumour que ... Read more

    $10.99 USD