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  • A Land Between Waters

    Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico

    Modifié par Christopher R. Boyer ...
    Collections series Latin American Landscapes
    Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent’s largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people’s use of the land, extraction of its resources, and attempts to conserve it have shaped both the landscape and its inhabitants.A Land Between Waters ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Political Landscapes

    Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico

    par Christopher R. Boyer ...
    Following the 1917 Mexican Revolution inhabitants of the states of Chihuahua and Michoacán received vast tracts of prime timberland as part of Mexico's land redistribution program. Although locals gained possession of the forests, the federal government retained management rights, which created conflict over subsequent decades among rural, often indigenous villages; government; and private timber ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

    Testimony and Social Movements

    par Lynn Stephen ...
    A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution

    Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

    par Gilbert M. Joseph, Jürgen Buchenau ...
    In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Dead March

    A History of the Mexican-American War

    par Peter Guardino ...
    Winner of the Bolton-Johnson PrizeWinner of the Utley PrizeWinner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History“The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians…in a story that involves far more than military strategy, diplomatic maneuvering, and American political intrigue…Studded with arresting insights and convincing observations.”—James Oakes, New York Review of Books ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Struggle for Maize

    Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Subcommander Marcos

    The Man and the Mask

    par Nick Henck ...
    Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion against the government; by sunset Marcos was on his way to becoming the most famous guerrilla leader ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Cortés and Montezuma

    par Maurice Collis ...
    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Watering the Revolution

    An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

    par Mikael D. Wolfe ...
    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Return of the Native

    Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

    par Rebecca A. Earle ...
    Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Gringo Guide to the Cristero Rebellion

    par William J. Conaway ...
    Collections series Gringo Guides
    A twenty-eight page book with the complete forgotten history of the Rebellion against the Calles Administration 1926-1930 in which the Pope closed the Mexican churches, and the government waged modern warfare against their own people over religious differences. hundreds of thousands of people died and a half million people migrated to the U.S. ... En savoir plus

    $9.61 CAD

  • Deco Body, Deco City

    Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

    par Ageeth Sluis ...
    Collections series The Mexican Experience
    In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival, the revolution, in the absence of men, also prompted women to take up traditionally male roles, ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD