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  • On Strike and on Film

    Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America

    by Ellen R. Baker ...
    In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines — an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film, Ellen Baker examines the building of a leftist union that linked class ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • The Lady Matador's Hotel

    A Novel

    by Cristina Garcia ...
    National Book Award finalist Cristina García delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil.The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerrilla now ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Lone Star Lawmen : The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

    The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

    by Robert M. Utley ...
    Hailed as "a rip-snortin' six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same" Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now in the eagerly anticipated conclusion Lone Star Lawmen Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West. Based ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    by John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Great Aridness

    Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

    by William deBuys ...
    With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Quixote's Soldiers

    A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981

    by David Montejano ...
    Series Book 26 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    "Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas." – Journal of American HistoryIn the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Borderlands of Race

    Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town

    by Jennifer R. Nájera ...
    Throughout much of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans experienced segregation in many areas of public life, but the structure of Mexican segregation differed from the strict racial divides of the Jim Crow South. Factors such as higher socioeconomic status, lighter skin color, and Anglo cultural fluency allowed some Mexican Americans to gain limited access to the Anglo power structure. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • From South Texas to the Nation

    The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century

    by John Weber ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Storm over Texas

    The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War

    by Joel H. Silbey ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In the Spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union, a hard-fought and bitter controversy that profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, the battle over Texas marked the crucial moment when partisan differences were transformed into a North-vs-South antagonism, and the momentum towards ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • On the Border

    Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

    by Tom Miller ...
    Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays this bi-national culture, "unforgettable to every reader lucky enough to discover this gem of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Border Dilemmas

    Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912

    by Anthony P. Mora ...
    The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans living in the conquered territory a choice between staying there or returning to Mexico by moving south of the newly drawn borderline. In this fascinating history, Anthony Mora analyzes contrasting ... Read more

    $28.79 USD