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  • Stormy Passage

    Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850

    by Eric Van Young ...
    In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization. Featuring primary sources from figures of the period, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Life Together

    Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853

    by Eric Van Young ...
    An eminent historian’s biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writersLucas Alamán (1792–1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth†‘century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national government on three occasions, founded the Conservative Party in the wake of the Mexican†‘American War, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Empire to Nation

    Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World

    by Eric Van Young, Karen Barkey, Uradyn E. Bulag, Ellen Comisso, Joseph W. Esherick, Carlos A. Forment, Cynthia S. Kaplan, Resat Kasaba0, Victor M. Uribe-Uran1, Edward W. Walker2 ...
    Series series World Social Change
    The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of large-scale political organization, had disappeared by the end of the twentieth century. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Other Rebellion

    Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821

    by Eric Van Young ...
    Mexico’s movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, the struggle was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Writing Mexican History

    by Eric Van Young ...
    This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways in which separate historical literatures have developed over time. They cover a wide range of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Nationalism in the New World

    by Barbara Weinstein, Craig Calhoun, Eric Van Young, Gary Gerstle, Hayley Froysland, Heather Thiessen-Reily, Jack P. Greene, Jeane DeLaney, Jorge Myers, Phillip Buckner, Susan-Mary Grant, T. H. Breen, Wilma Peres Costa ...
    Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we? How do we imagine ourselves as a nation? Debates over the origins and meanings of nationalism have emerged at the forefront of the humanities and social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

    The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675-1820

    by Eric Van Young ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    Stormy Passage

    Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750–1850

    by Eric Van Young ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 7 min

    In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization. Featuring primary sources from figures of the period, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Yucatán's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War

    by Terry Rugeley ...
    Conflicts between native Maya peoples and European-derived governments have punctuated Mexican history from the Conquest in the sixteenth century to the current Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. In this deeply researched study, Terry Rugeley delves into the 1800-1847 origins of the Caste War, the largest and most successful of these peasant rebellions.Rugeley refutes earlier studies that seek to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

    The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850

    by Gabriel Paquette ...
    As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America

    Edited by William H. Beezley, Judith Ewell ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    SR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history have been combined into one exciting new volume. The most compelling chapters from these books are now presented in The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America. This collection offers powerful, fascinating biographies of ordinary people caught in the sometimes devastating historical ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Art of Being In-between

    Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca

    by Yanna Yannakakis ...
    In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her rich social and cultural history tells the story of the making of colonialism at the edge of empire ... Read more

    $25.19 USD