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  • Abortion in Mexico

    A History

    by Nora E. Jaffary ...
    Series series Engendering Latin America
    Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.Nora E. Jaffary draws on courts’ and medical practitioners’ handling of birth termination to advance two central arguments. First, Jaffary ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico

    Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905

    by Nora E. Jaffary ...
    In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico’s transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about female sexuality and virtue, the development of modern Mexico, and the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mexican History

    A Primary Source Reader

    by Nora E. Jaffary ...
    Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. Chronologically organized chapters facilitate the book's assimilation into most course syllabi. Its selection of documents thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history (land and labor, indigenous people, religion, and state formation) while ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas

    Edited by Nora E. Jaffary ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded and participated in multiple ways. By adopting a comprehensive view of female agency, the essays in this collection reveal the varied implications of women's experiences in colonialism in North and South America. Although the Spanish ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Before Mestizaje

    The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico

    by Ben Vinson III ...
    Series Book 105 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestizaje (Latin America's modern ideology of racial mixture) and the colonial caste system is rendered. Before mestizaje emerged as a primary concept in Latin America, an earlier precursor existed that ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

    Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

    by Alcira Duenas ...
    Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Purchasing Whiteness

    Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies

    by Ann Twinam ...
    The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar—a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness. For more than a century, the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Women of Colonial Latin America

    by Susan Migden Socolow ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Race and Classification

    The Case of Mexican America

    Edited by Ilona Katzew, Susan Deans-Smith ...
    This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present. The distinguished contributors to the volume bring into dialogue sophisticated new ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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