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  • The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953

    by Katherine Elaine Bliss, Sarah A. Buck, Stephanie E. Mitchell, Carmen Ramos Escandón, Martha Eva Rocha, Nichole Sanders, Stephanie Smith, Andrew G. Wood ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing goals were actively involved, first in military roles during the violent early phase of civil ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Madre

    Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

    by Liza Bakewell ...
    Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while ¡qué padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • 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

  • Santa

    A Novel of Mexico City

    by Federico Gamboa ...
    Translated by John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City’s most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success, including the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Struggle for Maize

    Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

    by Elizabeth Fitting ...
    When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on the extent to which gene flow from transgenic to local varieties threatens maize biodiversity, anti-GM ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception/Bombast, Blacklists and Blockades in the Postwar Art World

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism while erasing the social impulses of prior European Modernisms and the American Social ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migrating Faith

    Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century

    by Daniel Ramírez ...
    Daniel Ramírez’s history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azusa Street Revival. The Pentecostal phenomenon — characterized by ecstatic spiritual practices that included speaking in tongues, perceptions of miracles, interracial mingling, and new popular musical worship traditions from both sides of the border — ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960

    by Thomas Rath ...
    At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico’s large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico

    Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982

    Edited by Adela Cedillo, Fernando Calderon ...
    The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uraguay experienced a period of state-sponsored terrorism commonly ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Maximillian and Mexico, Illustrated

    by John Heard Jr ...
    An abbreviated history of Maximillian's ill fated Mexican Empire arranged by and abandoned by Napoleon. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • British Lions and Mexican Eagles

    Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889–1919

    by Paul Garner ...
    Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men. At the center of his global business empire were his interests in Mexico.While Pearson's extraordinary success in Mexico took place within the context of unprecedented levels of British trade with and investment ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Brides of Christ

    Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico

    by Asunción Lavrin ...
    Brides of Christ invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. Lavrin provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to enter a convent, profession, spiritual guidelines and devotional practices, governance, ceremonials, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD