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  • Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution

    Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

    In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Haunted by Empire

    Geographies of Intimacy in North American History

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the intimate” in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the categories of difference ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • From Silver to Cocaine

    Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Quest La Eterna Serĉo

    English and Esperanto bilingual edition

    The Eternal Quest is a science fiction story written by Joseph Gilbert and first published in 1942. This book presents the original English text together with the Esperanto translation. Reading parallel texts in Esperanto and in their native language is ideal for Esperanto learners who want to acquire vocabulary, expressions and grammatical constructions. Parallel texts in two languages eliminate ... Read more

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  • Banana Wars

    Power, Production, and History in the Americas

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Tropical Zion

    General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sosúa settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those ... Read more

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  • September 11 in History

    A Watershed Moment?

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, September 11 in ... Read more

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  • The Unpredictability of the Past

    Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived to encompass not only governments but also nongovernmental groups and organizations that ... Read more

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  • Aloha Betrayed

    Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of ... Read more

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  • Juan Soldado

    Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican folk saint. In his mortal incarnation, Juan Soldado was Juan Castillo Morales, a twenty-four-year-old soldier convicted of and quickly executed for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Olga Camacho in Tijuana in 1938. Immediately after Morales’s ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Rediscovering The Past at Mexico's Periphery

    Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan

    Surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level researchIncreasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Rural Revolt in Mexico

    U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico to the past century of U.S. intervention—from the rural rebellions of the 1840s through the 1910 ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD