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“chris hesketh”

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  • Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance

    Mexico and the Global Political Economy

    de Chris Hesketh ...
    Series series
    Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh’s discussion of state formation in Mexico takes us beyond the national level to explore the interplay between global, regional, national, and sub ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

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  • Murder City

    Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

    de Charles Bowden ...
    Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad.In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • To Die in Mexico

    Dispatches from Inside the Drug War

    de John Gibler ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Mexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single largest source of income. Corruption and graft infiltrate all levels of government. Entire towns have become ungovernable, and of every ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    de Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz ...
    “Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library JournalMichael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz.The seventh edition incorporates new ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    de Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Evil Axis of Finance: The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future

    The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future

    de Richard, Westra ...
    Why, despite the existence of raft of potential international investment outlets, is a major share of global wealth and savings mpelled toward a United States (US) Wall Street centered casino ? Why has an increasingly gapping chasm crystallized between ever bloating global financial activities and the real world economy of production and trade? How is it that wealthy governmentsinjecting ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • San Miguel de Allende

    Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

    de Lisa Pinley Covert ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico—worked to demonstrate that it ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Tyranny of Opinion

    Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere

    de Pablo Piccato ...
    In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, as Mexico emerged out of decades of civil war and foreign invasion, a modern notion of honor—of one’s reputation and self-worth—became the keystone in the construction of public culture. Mexicans gave great symbolic, social, and material value to honor. Only honorable men could speak in the name of the public. Honor earned these men, and a few women, support ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Viva la historieta

    Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

    de Bruce Campbell ...
    ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of La Calsada

    A Rockshelter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico

    de C. Roger Nance ...
    Series series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
    On a remote mountainside 2,000 meters above sea level in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental, the rockshelter at La Calsada has yielded basic archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. This comprehensive site report, with detailed information on artifacts and stratigraphy, provides baseline data for further ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Global Governance

    Why? What? Whither?

    de Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government?This probing yet accessible book examines "global governance" or the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help states, intergovernmental ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • Home Grown

    Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD