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  • Home Grown

    Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

    by 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 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Mexico: Democracy Interrupted

    by Ms. Jo Tuckman ...
    In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the PAN victory were not consolidated. In this vivid account of Mexico's recent history, a journalist with ... Read more

    $25.19 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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  • Forgotten Dead

    Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

    by William D. Carrigan, Clive Webb ...
    Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Spirits and Visions

    by Noah Saint-Just ...
    Series Book 2 - Aztec, Maya, Inca and Toltec shamanism
    A specific shamanic initiation allowed governing elite or medicine men to communicate with nature deities.Banned by evangelic oppression as a satanic witchcraft, the shamanic ritual became a secret cult or disappeared.It was only briefly mentioned in indian chronicles, unwilling to draw attention of the powerful Inquisition.His predominance over pre-Columbian art is now gradually admitted, along ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Translated Christianities

    Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts

    by Mark Z. Christensen ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers with English translations of a variety of Nahuatl and Maya religious texts. It pulls Nahuatl and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • General Jo Shelby's March

    by Anthony Arthur ...
    Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness and respect in his own reunited land.General Jo Shelby had been a daring and ruthless ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fifth Sun

    Aztec Gods, Aztec World

    by Burr Cartwright Brundage ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it—Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird. Burr Cartwright ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Waking from the Dream

    Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968

    by Louise E. Walker ...
    When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party struggled to recover its legitimacy, but instead saw its support begin to erode. In the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Exports and Local Development

    Mexico's New Maquiladoras

    by Patricia A. Wilson ...
    Mexico's export assembly industry has been the object of an intensely polarized debate. While some observers laud the maquiladora industry as a source of much-needed employment and foreign exchange for Mexico, others berate it as a vehicle for exploitation and pollution. Exports and Local Development attempts to transcend the dichotomy by taking a practical look at how this export industry could ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán

    by Rajeshwari Dutt ...
    Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with his community’s interests as early national Yucatán underwent major political and social shifts. In Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán, Rajeshwari Dutt uses Canché’s story as a compelling ... Read more

    $19.49 USD