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“andrew paxman”

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  • Mexican Watchdogs

    The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s

    by Andrew Paxman ...
    In the first narrative history of Mexico’s contemporary press, Andrew Paxman recounts the evolution of print and online media between the 1980s and the present. From showing widespread subservience toward authority to playing a watchdog role as the country democratized, journalism both reflected and propelled changes in Mexican society.Paxman also traces how the media responded to outright state ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Jenkins of Mexico

    How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate

    by Andrew Paxman ...
    In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country energized by industrialization and revolutionary change. In Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman presents the first ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

    by John Womack ...
    This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. ... Read more

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  • 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

    $25.19 USD

  • The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development

    Rights, Culture, Strategy

    by Karen Engle ...
    Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development. Karen Engle traces the history of these claims, considering the prevalence of particular legal frameworks and their costs and benefits for indigenous groups. Her vivid account highlights the dilemmas that accompany each legal strategy, as well as the persistent elusiveness ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Photopoetics at Tlatelolco

    Afterimages of Mexico, 1968

    by Samuel Steinberg ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary forces opened fire on the gathering. The death toll from the massacre remains a ... Read more

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  • They Never Come Back

    A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico

    by Frans J. Schryer ...
    For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience has changed significantly over the past two decades. In They Never Come Back, Frans J. Schryer draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation on the lives of migrants. When handicraft production was able to provide a viable alternative to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Indigenous Citizens

    Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatán

    by Karen D. Caplan ...
    Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply entrenched in Mexico's regions, but only on locally acceptable terms.Faced with the common challenge ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Alone Before God

    The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico

    by Pamela Voekel ...
    Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Epics of Empire and Frontier

    Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers

    by Celia López-Chávez ...
    First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia de la Nueva México, a historical epic about the Spanish subjugation of the indigenous peoples of New ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Seen and Heard in Mexico

    Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism

    by Elena Jackson Albarran ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget.While most historical accounts ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000

    by Dolores Trevizo ...
    When the PRI fell from power in the elections of 2000, scholars looked for an explanation. Some focused on international pressures, while others pointed to recent electoral reforms. In contrast, Dolores Trevizo argues that a more complete explanation takes much earlier democratizing changes in civil society into account. Her book explores how largely rural protest movements laid the groundwork for ... Read more

    $29.69 USD