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  • Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution

    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This biography of the Mexican revolutionary examines his rise from soldier to president to his continued influence as Jefe Maximo.Hailing from the border state of Sonora, Plutarco Elías Calles found his calling in the early years of the revolution, quickly rising to national prominence. As president from 1924 to 1928, Calles undertook an ambitious reform program, modernized the financial system, ... Read more

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  • Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution

    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The only substantive study of Plutarco El'as Calles and the Mexican Revolution, this book traces the remarkable life story of a complex and little-understood, yet key figure in Mexico's history. JYrgen Buchenau draws on a rich array of archival evidence from Mexico, the United States, and Europe to explore Calles's origins and political trajectory. He hailed from Sonora, a border state marked by ... Read more

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  • Distant Neighbors

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  • Mexico

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    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties, or illegal drugs. It is less a neighbor than a sibling; no matter what our differences, it is intricately a part ... Read more

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  • Watering the Revolution

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    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... Read more

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  • The Return of the Native

    Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

    Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the ... Read more

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  • Dancing the New World

    Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest

    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
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  • Intimate Enemies

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  • The Tyranny of Opinion

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  • Arredondo

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    In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served ... Read more

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  • Mexico Behind the Mask

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    In light of current events related to immigration issues, the drug war along the border, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Beldon Butterfield's insightful and informative history of the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States is both timely and useful.Butterfield went to Mexico with Time Inc. in 1962 and has lived there ever since, enabling him to provide a unique ... Read more

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