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  • Epic Mexico

    A History from Its Earliest Times

    by Terry L. Rugeley ...
    Spanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engaging. The book’s story reaches from the days of the saber-tooth tiger to those of its perhaps more dangerous modern counterpart, the narco-trafficker; and from the time of the Olmec and the Aztec ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The River People in Flood Time

    The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires

    by Terry Rugeley ...
    The River People in Flood Time tells the astonishing story of how the people of nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico, overcame impossible odds to expel foreign interventions. Tabascans resisted control by Mexico City, overcame the grip of a Cuban adventurer who seized the region for two years, turned back the United States Navy, and defeated the French Intervention of the early 1860s, thus remaining ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • 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

    $90.99 CAD

  • Yucatán's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War

    by Terry Rugeley ...
    Conflicts between native Maya peoples and European-derived governments have punctuated Mexican history from the Conquest in the sixteenth century to the current Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. In this deeply researched study, Terry Rugeley delves into the 1800-1847 origins of the Caste War, the largest and most successful of these peasant rebellions.Rugeley refutes earlier studies that seek to ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Of Wonders and Wise Men

    Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876

    by Terry Rugeley ...
    2004 – Harvey L. Johnson Award – Southwest Council of Latin American StudiesIn the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Awakening Coast

    An Anthology of Moravian Writings from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899

    Edited by Karl Offen, Terry Rugeley ...
    The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua to this day remains one of the world’s strongest Moravian enclaves.The Awakening Coast offers the ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico

    Four Short Works of Fiction by José López Portillo y Rojas

    by José López Portillo y Rojas ...
    Translated by Terry Rugeley ...
    This captivating collection of translated short works by José López Portillo y Rojas, one of Mexico’s most significant literary figures, explores themes of social frustration, loss, and heartache in late-nineteenth-century Mexico.Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico is the first English-language collection of selected fiction by the influential Mexican author and political figure José López ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Maya Lords and Lordship

    The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600

    by Sergio Quezada ...
    Translated by Terry L. Rugeley ...
    When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship, Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines Yucatec Maya political and social power, arguing that it operated not over territory, as previous ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Alone in Mexico

    The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845–1848

    by Karl Bartolomeus Heller ...
    Translated by Terry Rugeley ...
    The first-ever English translation of the memoirs of botanist and naturalist Karl HellerThis volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens. He passed through the Caribbean, lived for a time in the mountains of Veracruz, and journeyed to Mexico City through the cities of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Peripheral Visions

    Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan

    by Eric N. Baklanoff, Othon Banos Ramirez, Eugene M. Wilson, Marie Lapointe, Paul K. Eiss, Lynda S. Morrison0, Stephanie J. Smith1, Dr. Terry Rugeley3 ...
    The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicitedYucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Secession as an International Phenomenon

    From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

    by Alan M. Wachman, Aleksandar Pavkovic, Andrés Reséndez, Bruno Coppieters, Charles B. Dew, Christopher Wellman, David Armitage, Frank Towers, Margaret Moore, Paul Kubicek, Paul Quigley, Peter Radan, Peter Sluglett, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Robert Bonner, Stefan Zahlmann, Susan-Mary Grant, Terry Rugeley ...
    About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Memories of Conquest

    Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala

    by Laura E. Matthew ...
    Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain’s New World empire? Laura Matthew’s study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala — the first study to focus on a single allied colony over the entire colonial period — places the Nahua, Zapotec, and Mixtec ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD