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  • Mexican Empire - The History of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico

    by H. Montgomery Hyde ...
    Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Charlotte of Belgium, known as Carlota were the only rulers of the second Mexican Empire. Installed by Napoleon III and a small group of Mexican Monarchists, the rule was short lived and even though Maximilian had a genuine love for Mexico and it's people and brought around liberal reforms the people of Mexico had no wish to be ruled by a foreign power and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burdock

    by Montgomery Hyde ...
    When Anna Craig’s lover disappears, she hires hard nosed private eye Matt Burdock to locate the dork. Burdock finds the corpse with a cord wrapped around its neck. The ensuing investigation draws Burdock and Craig into an international intrigue that takes them from the streets of Toronto to the northern wilderness and forces each to consider whether the greater threat is the other or the killer. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    G.F. Newman’s The Corrupted: Series 5 and 6

    A BBC Radio full-cast crime drama

    by G. F. Newman ...
    Narrated by Toby Jones, Joe Armstrong, Izabella Urbanowicz, Jasmine Hyde, Full Cast, Flora Montgomery ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - G.F. Newman’s The Corrupted

    Unabridged

    13 hours 4 min

    The fifth and sixth series of the East End family crime saga, starring Toby Jones as Joseph Olinska'G. F. Newman's powerful story of ambition and crooks' The TimesBritain and the US are waging war in Iraq, the Soviet Union is breaking up - and Brian Oldman is banged up in Parkhurst, his 30-year sentence restarted. Set on proving his innocence, he studies law from his cell in a bid to win justice ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Conquest of the Aztecs: The Lives and Legacies of Cortés, Montezuma, and the Aztec Empire

    by Charles River Editors ...
    From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered today for their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as being fierce conquerors of the Valley of Mexico ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution

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

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Jürgen Buchenau ...
    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

    $31.99 CAD

  • Chocolate and Corn Flour

    History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico

    by Laura A. Lewis ...
    Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however, call themselves morenos (black Indians). In Chocolate and Corn Flour, Laura A. Lewis explores the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Two Nations Indivisible

    Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

    by Shannon K. O'Neil ...
    Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Watering the Revolution

    An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

    by Mikael D. Wolfe ...
    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Dancing the New World

    Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest

    by Paul A. Scolieri ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014de la Torre Bueno® Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Intimate Enemies

    Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

    by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...
    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

    $39.99 CAD

  • Home Grown

    Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

    by Isaac Campos ...
    Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana’s remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial fiber and symbol of European empire. But, Campos demonstrates, as it gradually spread to ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Leaving Tabasco

    A Novel

    by Carmen Boullosa ...
    A young woman encounters strange events in her Mexican hometown in this novel by an author who "immerses us…in her wickedly funny and imaginative world" ( Latina).Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming of age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. In Agustini it is not unusual to see your grandmother float above the bed when she sleeps, or to ... Read more

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