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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gladys mccormick”
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  • The Last Door

    A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives

    by Gladys I. McCormick ...
    Series Book 9 - Violence in Latin American History
    As guerrilla groups sprouted up across Mexico in the early 1970s, the military and police routinely resorted to extreme acts of violence, including the systematic use of torture. In The Last Door, Gladys McCormick provides the most thorough account of how torture became a crucial and routine practice of the Mexican government’s war against subversives. Drawing from extensive oral history ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Logic of Compromise in Mexico

    How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism

    by Gladys I. McCormick ...
    In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Decolonizing Native Histories

    Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas

    Translated by Gladys McCormick ...
    by Florencia E. Mallon ...
    Series series Narrating native histories
    Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the rights of Native peoples to decide how their ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

    Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

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    Translated by William Savinar ...
    Series series Critical Mexican Studies
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  • A Lexicon of Terror

    Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

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    by Lillian Guerra ...
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  • Cruel Modernity

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  • A Lexicon of Terror

    Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue

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