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  • Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing beliefs about the masculine foundations of citizenship. Piecing together material from national and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Power and Identity

    Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic

    Landscapes of Power and Identity is a groundbreaking comparative history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empire—the Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia’s lowlands—from the late colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth century. An innovative combination of environmental and cultural history, this book reflects Cynthia Radding ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Eagle and the Virgin

    Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940

    When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Visions of the Emerald City

    Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico

    Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone), Oaxaca City was not only the economic, political, and cultural capital of the state of Oaxaca but also a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Identidades eclesiales en disputa

    Aproximación "socioteológica" a los católicos de la ciudad de México

    La identidad de la Iglesia, que se mantuvo más o menos uniforme tal y como fue heredada de la Contrarreforma, ha entrado en crisis en el mundo contemporáneo, fragmentándose en múltiples identidades. De ello dan cuenta no sólo los estudios teológicos del periodo posconciliar, sino también, y de manera aún más evidente, la vida cotidiana de los católicos de México, Distrito Federal. El presente ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Adventures into Mexico

    American Tourism beyond the Border

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Moving beyond the tequila-soaked clichés of Mexican tourism, this multifaceted book explores the influence and experiences of Americans in Mexico since World War II. The authors trace Mexico's growing role as an important refuge for Americans seeking not only sun and fun but also an alternative cultural and social model. And on the other side of the border, Mexican citizens and politicians have ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Inherit the Dust from the Four Winds of Revilla

    A 250-Year Historical Perspective with Emphasis on Ancient Guerrero, Its People and Its Land Grants

    Rich in period analysis, here is fascinating historical perspective covering 250 years of existence primarily of a 1750 Spanish settlement originally called Villa del Seor San Ignacio de Loyola de Revilla and now known as "Guerrero Viejo." Although many books cover the genealogical aspects of families that originated in this city, the historical contributions of the early pioneers, their ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature

    Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950

    by Sam Lopez ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years as well as their contributions to the genres in which they wrote. The women -- Leonor Villegas de Magnón, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953

    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing goals were actively involved, first in military roles during the violent early phase of civil ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • 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

  • Religious Culture in Modern Mexico

    Edited by Martin Austin Nesvig ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways that religion and religious devotion have persisted and changed since Mexican independence. They explore such themes as the relationship ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Subcommander Marcos

    The Man and the Mask

    by Nick Henck ...
    Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion against the government; by sunset Marcos was on his way to becoming the most famous guerrilla leader ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Intimate Enemies

    Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

    Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state’s violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as “bad guys” with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change

    Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico

    This important collection explores how Mexico’s tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future. Cycles of crisis and reform, of conflict and change, have marked Mexico’s modern history. The final decades of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries each brought efforts to integrate Mexico into globalizing economies, pressures on the country’s diverse peoples, and attempts at ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Revolution of Hope

    The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President

    by Vicente Fox ...
    The charismatic former president of Mexico offers a candid and provocative perspective on the state of world affairs.As president of Mexico, Vicente Fox brought true democracy to the country after seven decades of one party rule. Elected as a political outsider with a message of honesty, change, and hope, he is truly a hero of democracy, and this vivid book interweaves his inspiring personal story ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Mexico's Most Wanted™

    by Boze Hadleigh ...
    Hispanics are now the largest minority in the United States. Of the more than forty million Hispanics, some two-thirds are Mexican or Mexican-American. Almost half of all babies in the nation are born of Hispanic parents, and Garcia is quickly becoming the most common surname in America. So theres no better time to feast on the interesting and entertaining trivia provided in Mexicos Most Wanted™ ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • The Return of the Native

    Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

    Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mexico

    In this concise thousand-year history, one of the worlds foremost scholars on Latin America explains how Mexicos present and future flow directly from its past. Going well beyond a comprehensive description of recent events and crises, Jaime Suchlicki provides an introduction to the countrys early native civilizations, its natural environment, the Spaniards harsh rule, independence and revolution, ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • A Social History of Mexico's Railroads

    Peons, Prisoners, and Priests

    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Largely absent from our history books is the social history of railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico, which promoted rapid economic growth that greatly benefited elites but also heavily impacted rural and provincial Mexican residents in communities traversed by the rails. In this beautifully written and original book, Teresa Van Hoy connects foreign investment in Mexico, largely in ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Revolution within the Revolution

    Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923

    by Jeffrey Bortz ...
    Mexico's revolution of 1910 ushered in a revolutionary era: during the twentieth century, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Iranian revolutions shaped local, regional, and world history. Because Mexico was at the time a rural and agrarian country, it is not surprising that historians have concentrated on the revolution in the countryside where the rural underclass fought for land. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Brides of Christ

    Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico

    Brides of Christ invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. Lavrin provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to enter a convent, profession, spiritual guidelines and devotional practices, governance, ceremonials, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Glorious Defeat

    Mexico and Its War with the United States

    Timothy J. Henderson's A Glorious Defeat provide a short, accessible account of the US-Mexican War.The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a host of tensions that led to devastating civil ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Imagining la Chica Moderna

    Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936

    In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country. Some of the images were addressed directly to women through advertisements, as illustrations accompanying articles in women’s magazines, and on the “women’s pages” in daily newspapers. Others illustrated domestic and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • First Stop in the New World

    by David Lida ...
    The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD