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  • The Mexican Heartland

    How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000

    by John Tutino ...
    A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the ... Read more

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  • Mexico City, 1808

    Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution

    by John Tutino ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, desperate to gain New Spain’s silver. He broke Spain’s monarchy, setting off a summer of ferment in Mexico City. People took to the streets, dreaming of an absent king, seeking popular sovereignty, and imagining that the wealth ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Bajío Revolution

    Remaking Capitalism, Community, and Patriarchy in Mexico, North America, and the World

    In The Bajío Revolution, John Tutino examines how popular insurgents reshaped Mexico, the United States, and global capitalism during the nineteenth century. After detailing New Spain’s silver-driven wealth, Tutino shows how the Bajío insurgency of 1810–20 broke silver flows and Asian trades, opening markets to industrial cloth made in England from cotton made by enslaved hands in the US South ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Making a New World

    Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America

    Making a New World is a major rethinking of the role of the Americas in early world trade, the rise of capitalism, and the conflicts that reconfigured global power around 1800. At its center is the Bajío, a fertile basin extending across the modern-day Mexican states of Guanajuato and Querétaro, northwest of Mexico City. The Bajío became part of a new world in the 1530s, when Mesoamerican Otomís ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • New World Cities

    Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas

    Edited by John Tutino, Martin V. Melosi ...
    For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation — inextricably tied to rising globalization — changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars look at the similar ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • 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

    $45.99 CAD

  • Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States

    Edited by John Tutino ...
    Series series CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series
    Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history, this volume elucidates how economic, social, and cultural legacies grounded in colonial New Spain ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    An All-Consuming History of Energy

    The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.We have long been taught that humanity’s relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear—until at some future point everything will be replaced by “green” energy. But the long-held ... Read more

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  • Catan

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    by Klaus Teuber ...
    Series Book 1 - The Catan Series
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    Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

    by Mariah Blake ...
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  • Fascism Comes to America

    A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture

    by Bruce Kuklick ...
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