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  • Keen's Latin American Civilization, Volume 1

    A Primary Source Reader, Volume One: The Colonial Era

    by Robert M Buffington ...
    The tenth edition of Keen's Latin American Civilization inaugurates a new era in the history of this classic anthology by dividing it into two volumes. This first volume retains most of the colonial period sources from the ninth edition but with some significant additions including two new sets of images (representations of Brazilian cannibals and 'casta paintings' of mixed race families), an ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • A Global History of Sexuality

    The Modern Era

    Edited by Robert M. Buffington, Donna J. Guy, Eithne Luibhéid ...
    A Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the present day.Explores what sexuality has meant in the everyday lives of individuals over the last 200 yearsOrganized around four major themes: the formation of sexual identity, the regulation of sexuality by societal norms, the regulation of sexuality ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Keen's Latin American Civilization, Volume 2

    A Primary Source Reader, Volume Two: The Modern Era

    by Robert M Buffington ...
    The tenth edition of Keen's Latin American Civilization inaugurates a new era in the history of this classic anthology by dividing it into two volumes. This second volume retains most of the modern period sources from the ninth edition but with some significant additions including a new set of images and a wide range of new sources that reflect the latest events and trends in contemporary Latin ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Sentimental Education for the Working Man

    The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910

    by Robert M. Buffington ...
    In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers with alternative masculine scripts that were more realistic about their lives, more responsive to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Oxford History of Mexico

    by William Beezley; Michael Meyer ...
    The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of Mexican history, from religion to technology, ethnicity, ecology and mass media, are analyzed with ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Distant Neighbors

    A Portrait of the Mexicans

    by Alan Riding ...
    A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Brazil

    by Boris Fausto, Sergio Fausto ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Fausto, a prominent ... Read more

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  • Argentina

    A Modern History

    by Jill Hedges ...
    In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well below its regional neighbours such as Chile. At the same time, despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic divisions, Argentina has failed to create an over-arching post-independence national ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. Taking account of these divergent interpretations, this Very Short Introduction offers a succinct ... Read more

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  • Mexico in World History

    by William H. Beezley ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley highlights the penetrating effect of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Our America

    A Hispanic History of the United States

    by Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    “A rich and moving chronicle for our very present.” —Julio Ortega, New York Times Book ReviewThe United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the ... Read more

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