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  • The Political Evolution of the Mexican People

    by Justo Sierra ...
    Translated by Charles William Ramsdell ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of Cortés? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, "The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races … to this we owe our soul."Because Sierra recognized the dual parentage, he was able to view his country's history as an evolutionary process. Formed in both the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers

    Translated by Iain Bruce, Lorna Scott Fox ...
    by Anabel Hernández ...
    This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times).“A riveting story . . . [from] an incredibly brave journalist.” —NPRThe “war on drugs” has so far cost more than 60,000 lives. Hernández explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels ... Read more

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  • To Die in Mexico

    Dispatches from Inside the Drug War

    by John Gibler ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Mexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single largest source of income. Corruption and graft infiltrate all levels of government. Entire towns have become ungovernable, and of every ... Read more

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  • The Beast

    Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

    by Oscar Martinez ...
    Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...
    An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year”“Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times)One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local ... Read more

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  • Revolution of Hope

    The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President

    by Vicente Fox ...
    The charismatic former president of Mexico offers a candid and provocative perspective on the state of world affairs.As president of Mexico, Vicente Fox brought true democracy to the country after seven decades of one party rule. Elected as a political outsider with a message of honesty, change, and hope, he is truly a hero of democracy, and this vivid book interweaves his inspiring personal story ... Read more

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  • Los Zetas Inc.

    Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico

    by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera ...
    The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government’s response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas ... Read more

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  • The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

    Life and Death in Juárez

    by Sandra Nieto ...
    Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...
    The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalistSixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable triple murder, Sandra Rodríguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of the most violent ... Read more

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  • Radio in Revolution

    Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938

    by Joseph Justin Castro ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Long before the Arab Spring and its use of social media demonstrated the potent intersection between technology and revolution, the Mexican Revolution employed wireless technology in the form of radiotelegraphy and radio broadcasting to alter the course of the revolution and influence how political leaders reconstituted the government.Radio in Revolution, an innovative study of early radio ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Junípero Serra

    California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary

    by Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz ...
    Series series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series
    Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz bring this complex figure to life and illuminate the Spanish period of ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934

    by Roderic Ai Camp ...
    Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks not only to provide accurate biographical information about each entry but also, where possible and ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Social Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500-2000

    by Hugo G. Nutini, Barry L. Isaac ...
    In Aztec and colonial Central Mexico, every individual was destined for lifelong placement in a legally defined social stratum or estate. Social mobility became possible after independence from Spain in 1821 and increased after the 1910–1920 Revolution. By 2000, the landed aristocracy that was for long Mexico's ruling class had been replaced by a plutocracy whose wealth derives from manufacturing, ... Read more

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