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  • Rural Revolt in Mexico

    U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, William C. Roseberry, Alan Knight ...
    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

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Hernan Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquistador and the Conquered

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. Hernán Cortés"Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Short History, 1910-1920

    by Stuart Easterling ...
    "An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!" (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959).The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Portrait of a Young Painter

    Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation

    by Mary Kay Vaughan ...
    In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico

    From the Aztecs to Independence

    by Enrique Florescano, Kathryn R. Bork ...
    Translated by Albert G. Bork ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    In Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano’s Memoria mexicana becomes available for the first time in English. A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history. Original in perspective ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Mex-Ciné

    Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century

    by Frederick Luis Aldama ...
    Mex-Cinéoffers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Cinéaims to make visible the twenty-first century Mexican film industry, its blueprints, and the cognitive and emotive faculties involved in making and consuming its ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion

    Modernist Visions and the Invisible Indian

    by Nicholas P. Higgins ...
    To many observers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mexico appeared to be a modern nation-state at last assuming an international role through its participation in NAFTA and the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development). Then came the Zapatista revolt on New Year's Day 1994. Wearing ski masks and demanding not power but a new understanding of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas

    by Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, Andrés Brizuela Casimir ...
    The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover clear continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient counterparts.With evocative and thoughtful essays by leading scholars of Maya ... Read more

    $45.99 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

  • Containing the Poor

    The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871

    by Silvia Marina Arrom ...
    In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House—the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, showing how the asylum functioned primarily to educate white ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Annals of Native America

    How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive

    by Camilla Townsend ...
    For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. Between them, they ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Attack and Counterattack

    The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842

    by Joseph Milton Nance ...
    It is 1842—a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches on Texas soil; once more the frontier settlers strengthen their strongholds for defense or gather ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD