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  • A Perfect Gibraltar

    The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846

    by Christopher D. Dishman ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, graduates of the U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly protected by ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • First Stop in the New World

    by David Lida ...
    The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dead March

    A History of the Mexican-American War

    by Peter Guardino ...
    Winner of the Bolton-Johnson PrizeWinner of the Utley PrizeWinner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History“The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians…in a story that involves far more than military strategy, diplomatic maneuvering, and American political intrigue…Studded with arresting insights and convincing observations.”—James Oakes, New York Review of Books ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Alamo

    by John Myers Myers ...
    John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Visions of the Emerald City

    Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico

    by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez ...
    Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone), Oaxaca City was not only the economic, political, and cultural capital of the state of Oaxaca but also a ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico

    Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982

    Edited by Adela Cedillo, Fernando Calderon ...
    The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uraguay experienced a period of state-sponsored terrorism commonly ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Romance of History, Mexico(1909)

    (Colour Illustrations)

    by Margaret Duncan Coxhead ...
    Series series Unsecretbooks publication
    Romance of History, Mexico(1909) is the timeless historical story written by Margaret Duncan Coxhead and illustrated in colour by J. H. Robinson, published by New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers ( 1909 ).…..All ages have their pervading spirit. In the fifteenth century it was, in Western Europe, a spirit of unrest, of curiosity, of adventure. Twice before in the history of the world ... Read more

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  • Five Years in Texas

    by Thomas North ...
    To conceive the idea, and execute the purpose of making a book, is, to a modest man, not a little monstrous; and yet, modest or immodest, monstrous or not, the author makes his best bow to the reader, and holds himself subject to criticism for not making it better. But many are running to and fro in the earth, and knowledge is being increased; for the runners, are they not making books for the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico

    by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
    In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic particularism and functionalism through indigenismo, cultural ecology, Marxism and the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Learned Ones

    Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico

    by Kelly S. McDonough ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the “wise ones” of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some from linking the words “indigenous” and “intellectual” together.Not so, according to author Kelly S. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Moctezuma's Children

    Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520–1700

    by Donald E. Chipman ...
    Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish law and customs to maintain and enhance their status ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • OBAMA IN HIS SECOND TERM

    BUILDING A LEGACY

    by John T. Feral ...
    In the 2012 US Presidential Election, Barack Obama was reelected to an historic second term.  Through his victory, Obama became the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected twice with a majority of the nation's popular vote.  Obama's reelection was a watershed moment elsewhere in American politics.  Major voter referendums demonstrated a decisive political shift to the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD