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  • So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico

    Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico

    Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. In So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp presents the fascinating findings of her extensive fieldwork in Mexico as well as in Lebanon and Syria, which included comprehensive data collection from more than 8,000 original immigration cards as well as studies of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Mexicans

    A Personal Portrait of a People

    by Patrick Oster ...
    The Mexicans is a multifaceted portrait of the complex, increasingly turbulent neighbor to our south. It is the story of a country in crisis -- poverty, class tensions, political corruption -- as told through stories of individuals.From Augustín, an honest cop, we learn that many in the Mexican police force use torture as their number-one-crime-solving technique; from Julio Scherer Garcia, a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chicle

    The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley

    Although Juicy Fruit® gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade “biographies” have been devoted to salt, spices, chocolate, coffee, and other staples of modern life, until now there has never been a full history of chewing gum.Chicle is a history in four acts, all of them focused on ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • El Grito De Dolores

    Viva Mexico

    Cuando el cura Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla exalto a sus parroquianos a levantarse sobre la corona espaola en bsqueda de conseguir la Independencia Mexicana con un emotivo llamado, engendro El Grito de Dolores, y se convirti en Padre de la Patria. Este es un evento de gigantescas proporciones que demuestra valenta y honor bajo fuego y sangre. Pocos son los libros que iluminan las fuerzas que tienen ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Rebellion Now and Forever

    Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatan, 1800–1880

    by Terry Rugeley ...
    This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico. Rather than recounting the well-worn narrative of the Caste War, it focuses instead on how four decades of violence helped shape social and political institutions of the Mexican southeast. Rebellion Now and Forever looks at Yucatán's famous Caste War from the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Yucatan in an Era of Globalization

    This work describes the profound changes to Yucatán’s society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico’s economy. The editors have assembled contributions from seasoned “Yucatecologists”—historians, geographers, cultural students, and an economist—to chart the accelerated change in Yucatán from a monocrop economy to a full beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • On Mexican Time

    A New Life in San Miguel

    by Tony Cohan ...
    An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Maya and Teotihuacan

    Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction

    Edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    **The contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan.Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2005**Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great empire of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Race and Classification

    The Case of Mexican America

    This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present. The distinguished contributors to the volume bring into dialogue sophisticated new ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555

    While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought encomiendas—"a grant of the Indians of a prescribed indigenous polity, who were to provide the grantee (the encomendero) ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Traveling with Che Guevara

    The Making of a Revolutionary

    Translated by Lucía Álvarez de Toledo ...
    Published for the first time in the U.S.—one of the two diaries on which the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based—the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado's eight-month tour of South America in 1952.In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family, decided to explore ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Conquest of Mexico (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

    Series series Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
    Mexicos rich culture has long fascinated scholars, with stories of ancient civilizations and great conquerors. History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) expounds upon the virtues of Mexico while seeking to explain the tragedy of the countrys defeat in terms of its neighboring civilizations. The arrival of the Spaniards forever altered and in many ways curtailed indigenous cultural development in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palace Politics

    How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico

    Bringing rare interviews and meticulous research to the cloaked world of Mexican politics in the mid-twentieth century, Palace Politics provides a captivating look at the authoritarian Mexican state—one of the longest-lived regimes of its kind in recent history—as well as the origins of political instability itself, with revelations that can be applied to a variety of contemporary political ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Tira de Tepechpan

    Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule

    Created in Tepechpan, a relatively minor Aztec city in Central Mexico, the Tira de Tepechpan records important events in the city's history from 1298 through 1596. Most of the history is presented pictographically. A line of indigenous year signs runs the length of the Tira, with images above the line depicting events in Tepechpan and images below the line recording events at Tenochtitlan, capital ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The A to Z of the United States-Mexican War

    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    The first reference work of its kind, this volume on the United States-Mexican War encompasses the decade of the 1840s, focusing on the war years of 1846-1848. More than a dozen maps were drawn for this book, some of which depict major regions and localities over which armies of both nations moved great distances to position for battle, and others that depict major battlefields from the first ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • An Empire of Wealth

    The Epic History of American Economic Power

    Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Álvaro Obregón

    Fuego y cenizas de la Revolución Mexicana

    by Pedro Castro ...
    Centrada sobre todo en la gestión de Obregón como líder triunfante, como presidente y como caudillo, esta biografía profundiza en temas como los conflictos políticos internos y externos que él tuvo que enfrentar. Inteligencia, astucia, voluntad de mando y momento histórico decisivo se juntan en la figura de Álvaro Obregón para construir una biografía apasionante que hacía mucha falta. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution

    Fighting Words

    Series series Fighting Words
    A unique compilation of diverse sources, many in English translation for the first time, this book documents the Mexican Revolution, explains its popular and agrarian nature, and helps to clarify its often perplexing conflicts, alliances, and issues.Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution: Fighting Words lets readers see this watershed moment in Mexican history in a new light, through the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan

    A Modern Paleodemographic Synthesis

    Cities arose independently in both the Old World and in the pre-Columbian New World. Lacking written records, many of these New World cities can be studied only through archaeology, including the earliest pre-Columbian city, Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of the largest cities of its time (150 B.C. to A.D. 750). Thus, an important question is how similar New World cities are to their Old World ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Flock Divided

    Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857

    Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped to create a broad and remarkably inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Matthew D. O’Hara describes how religious thought and practice shaped Mexico’s popular politics. As he shows, religion facilitated the emergence of new ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • El Monstruo

    Dread and Redemption in Mexico City

    by John Ross ...
    John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated urban stain in the western world are doomed, and the monster he has grown to know and love ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The History of Mexico

    Series series The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
    This sweeping introduction unveils the fascinating, complex, and evolving history of Mexico—from its earliest settlement to the first decade of the 21st century.The History of Mexico: Second Edition provides a timely introduction to the United States' complex and fascinating neighbor, tracing Mexico's history from the arrival of the first humans through the first decade of the 21st century. This ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Cinco De Mayo

    In the 1860s a turbulent and battered Mexico fought for its survival against a French invasion. For a moment in time, the world order as we know it today was in question. The nascent United States, an independent Mexico, Europe the worlds balance of power hung in the balance in a chaotic swirl of plots and intrigues.Yet from this struggle was born a deep national pride and sense of confidence as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Indigenous Citizens

    Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatán

    Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply entrenched in Mexico's regions, but only on locally acceptable terms. Faced with the common challenge ... Read more

    $28.99 USD