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  • Eating Puerto Rico

    A History of Food, Culture, and Identity

    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra’s magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortíz shows how their production and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Investigative Brigade

    Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile

    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. In 1991, a year after the brutal military regime ended, the new civilian government tasked the nation’s detective force to investigate these crimes. Chilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy tells the dramatic story of the detectives who hunted down and attempted to bring ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cuban Connection

    Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution

    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution. Eduardo Sáenz Rovner argues that Cuba’s historically well ... Leer más

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  • Negotiation within Domination

    New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State

    Series series Mesoamerican Worlds
    Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the consequences of colonial rule. This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but also the survival and continuation of traditional cultures.Bringing together work by Mexican and ... Leer más

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  • Myth of Quetzalcoatl

    Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World

    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin’s 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this work has not been available in English until now.The importance of Hombre-Dios and its status as a classic arise from ... Leer más

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  • Joaquín Ortega

    Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico

    de Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Contextos Series
    In this important work Russ Davidson presents the first biography of Joaquín Ortega, introducing readers to Ortega’s life and work at the University of New Mexico as well as his close relationship with then UNM president James Zimmerman and other major figures. More than biography, Davidson’s study closely examines the complex relationship UNM has had with Latin America as well as with the ... Leer más

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  • Mexico's Indigenous Communities

    Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010

    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Mesoamerican Worlds
    A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past. Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories, ... Leer más

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  • A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902

    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902 — a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War — Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban nationalism.Drawing on archival and published sources, Iglesias illustrates the process by which ... Leer más

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  • They Should Stay There

    The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression

    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Here, for the first time in English—and from the Mexican perspective—is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican ... Leer más

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    They Should Stay There

    The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression

    Narrado por Rudy Sanda ...

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    10 hora 24 minutos

    While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth century's most massive movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and controversial the immigration and ... Leer más

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  • Shaky Colonialism

    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Leer más

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  • Memories of Conquest

    Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala

    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 ... Leer más

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