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  • Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls

    The Battle for Puvungna

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
    A twenty-two acre strip of land—known as Puvungna—lies at the edge of California State University’s Long Beach campus. The land, indisputably owned by California, is also sacred to several Native American tribes. And these twenty-two acres have been the nexus for an acrimonious and costly conflict over control of the land. Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls tells the story of Puvungna, from the ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition

    The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

    by Miguel Leon-Portilla ...
    For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Ancient Maya and Their City of Tulum

    Uncovering the Mysteries of an Ancient Civilization and Their City of Grandeur

    by Bonnie Bley ...
    Discover the ancient Maya civilization and one of their most popular toured ancient ruined cities of Tulum, Mexico in this detailed guidebook. Th e Ancient Maya and Th eir City of Tulum: Uncovering the Mysteries of An Ancient Civilization and Th eir City of Grandeur, is an easy to read comprehensive guide to unlocking the secrets and mysteries of the ancient Maya civilization. It answers the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Gringo Guide to Mexican History

    by William J. Conaway ...
    Series series Gringo Guides
    A 354 page, complete History of Mexico with historic pictures. An easy read to learn the incredible history of the Republic from the Conquest until Today. The places, events, and the characters that played out their roles in one of the bloodiest histories ever recorded. Interspersed throughout are accounts of events taking place in the U.S. and the rest of the world simultaniously to give one a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • México libre

    by Francisco Ortega ...
    La obra teatral México libre es un reflejo de las tendencias políticas mexicanas durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Su autor, Francisco Ortega, identificado con el independentismo, fue uno de los primeros autores del romanticismo en México y América. Los autores mexicanos de entonces mezclaron sus filiaciones literarias con sus ideas políticas hasta el punto de que la mayoría de los liberales ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Mexico

    A Sociopolitical Critique

    by Jorge Guerrero Sanchez ...
    Find out how it is to live in Mexico. Learn why Mexico is so inefficient and expensive in doing business. Learn the systematic failures of our legal system. Understand why Mexican immigrants are the way they are; learn where they come from in an objective perspective of their culture and institutions. Analyze Mexico using a 2X2 Matrix and several game theory grids outlining possible scenarios ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Zapata of Mexico

    by Peter E. Newell ...
    Emiliano Zapata (born in the pueblo of Anenecuilco in the Mexican state of Morelos on 9 August 1879), possibly the ‘purest embodiment’ of the Mexican Revolution, was betrayed and murdered in the patio of the Hacienda de San Juan, in Chinameca on 10 April 1919. Who, and what, was Zapata? This book attempts to describe what Emiliano Zapata sought to achieve—and just how much he and his compañeros ... Read more

    $3.75 USD

  • The Lawyer of the Church

    Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma

    by Pablo Mijangos y Gonzalez ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Mexico’s Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy’s response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

    by Deborah Toner ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels, newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910. Examining the historical importance of drinking as both an important feature of Mexican ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Revolution at Querétaro

    The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917

    by E.V. Niemeyer Jr. ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917 came to grips with the basic problem of twentieth-century Mexico. They hammered out pragmatic solutions to establish the legal foundations of the Mexican Revolution, the definitive break between the old Mexico and the new, the constitutional bases for the socioeconomic changes from ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Forsaken Harvest

    Haciendas and Agrarian Reform in Jalisco, Mexico: 1915-1940

    by Luis G. Cueva ...
    This historical monograph examines the decline of the hacienda estates within Jalisco, Mexico during the early decades of the 20th century. The book also explores the impact of the land reform program of President Lazaro Cardenas in transforming the agrarian economic structure of the region. This study contributes to an ongoing lively debate about the hacienda system and the meaning of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD