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  • Tejano South Texas

    A Mexican American Cultural Province

    Series Book 5 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    On the plains between the San Antonio River and the Rio Grande lies the heartland of what is perhaps the largest ethnic region in the United States, Tejano South Texas. In this cultural geography, Daniel Arreola charts the many ways in which Texans of Mexican ancestry have established a cultural province in this Texas-Mexico borderland that is unlike any other Mexican American region.Arreola ... Read more

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  • The Undead Plague: A Knights Last Stand

    In a realm besieged by a relentless undead plague, Sir Aric of Darrowhold, a noble knight, embarks on a perilous quest to protect his world from an ancient darkness. The plague, which turns the infected into ravenous undead, has devastated his city and now threatens the very fabric of the realm.The story begins with Aric’s city under siege by the undead. Amid the chaos, he learns of a dark ... Read more

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  • Postcards from the Chihuahua Border

    Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s

    Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America.In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s ... Read more

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  • Postcards from the Baja California Border

    Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s–1950s

    Postcards have a magical pull. They allow us to see the past through charming relics that allow us to travel back in time. Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Baja California Border offers a window into the historical and geographical past of storied Mexican border communities. Once-popular tourist destinations from the 1900s through the 1950s, the border communities explored in Postcards from ... Read more

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  • Postcards from the Sonora Border

    Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s

    Young men ride horses on a dusty main road through town. Cars and gas stations gradually intrude on the land, and, years later, curiosity shops and cantinas change the face of Mexican border towns south of Arizona. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as centers of commerce and as tourist destinations. Postcards from the Sonora Border reveals how images—in this ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Postcards from the Río Bravo Border

    Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s–1950s

    A history in postcards of Mexican tourist towns in the first half of the twentieth century, with nearly two hundred illustrations.Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations—in some cases by luring Americans who wanted to escape Prohibition—and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, ... Read more

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  • Bridging Cultures

    Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In ... Read more

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  • Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places

    Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America

    Edited by Daniel D. Arreola ...
    Hispanics/Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the United States—but they are far from being a homogenous group. Mexican Americans in the Southwest have roots that extend back four centuries, while Dominicans and Salvadorans are very recent immigrants. Cuban Americans in South Florida have very different occupational achievements, employment levels, and income from immigrant Guatemalans who ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • On the Border

    Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico

    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.DMexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of mining and the rise of Tijuana, the book examines a number of aspects of the region's social and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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