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Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings ((Rev)85 Edition) by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1940 by Friedrich E Schuler Publisher Comments Mexico's relationship with the world during the 1930s is revealed as a fascinating series of calculated responses to domestic political changes and international economic shifts.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo Publisher Comments The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Emiliano Zapata Revolution & Betrayal In by Samuel Brunk Publisher Comments This clearly written and carefully argued narrative presents a less mythical and more human Zapata against the dramatic and chaotic background of the Mexican Revolution.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Mexico (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Brian R Hamnett Publisher Comments The 2006 second edition of this accessible study of Mexico includes two new features, an examination of cultural developments since Independence from Spain in 1821 and a discussion of contemporary issues up to the time of publication. Several new plates... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $6.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans (Vintage) by Jorge G. Castaneda Publisher Comments In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of politics and culture of modern Mexico. Here’s a nation of 110 million that has an... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Basta!: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas by George Collier Publisher Comments Basta! is an investigation of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, and the social tensions, land struggles, ethnic conflict, and cruel government that created the rebellion. With a new afterword by the author about Chiapas today and its successes and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Language, Naked Ladies -PB by Anne Rubenstein Publisher Comments In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books—which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico—played an important role in the development of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico, Reader : History, Culture, Politics (02 Edition) by Gilbert M. Joseph Publisher Comments The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Course of Mexican History by Michael C Meyer Publisher Comments Still the leading survey text on Mexican history from the pre-Columbian period to the present, this thoroughly updated edition of The Course of Mexican History introduces a new co-author, Susan Deeds. This sixth edition offers a fresh understanding of... (read more) List Price $57.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Narcocorrido: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas by Elijah Wald Publisher Comments In the first full-length exploration of the contemporary and controversial Mexican corrido, award-winning author Elijah Wald blends a travel narrative with his search for the roots of this genre -- a modern outlaw music that fuses the sensibilities of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility by Alex Khasnabish Publisher Comments On January 1, 1994 in the far southeast of Mexico, a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants calling itself the Zapatista Army of National Liberation rose up in rebellion against 500 years of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, racism, and neoliberal... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Mexico, Updated Edition (Brief History) by Lynn Foster Publisher Comments From the rise of the first civilizations of North America and continuing through the cataclysm of the Spanish conquest and the explosive revolution of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa to the intensely contested presidential election of 2006, Mexico has... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bordering on Chaos: Mexico's Roller-Coaster Journey Toward Prosperity by Andres Oppenheimer Publisher Comments Hailed for its gripping narrative, its insightful analysis, and its informed historical perspective, this book offers a "revealing look at the secret and powerful political society of Mexico, its breakup, and the fallout that we are witnessing today... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Juan the Chamula Juan Perez Jolote: Biografia de Un Tzotzil by Ricardo Pozas Publisher Comments This book concerns an indigenous group of Tzotzil-speaking Indians living in the mountain highlands in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. It has been recognized as one of the most skillful handlings of Indian themes in Mexican literature.... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Zapatista Reader by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments The electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year's Day, 1994, has provided inspiration for activists all over the world. A... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt by John Gibler Publisher Comments Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Mexico Unconquered probes the overwhelming divisions in contemporary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico Faces the 21st Century by Donald E Schulz Publisher Comments As Mexico approaches the 21st century, its problems seem to be rapidly overwhelming its prospects. Only a short time ago, with the passage of NAFTA, it appeared ready to catapult out of underdevelopment into the ranks of the industrialized countries... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America (10TH 08 Edition) by Vicki L. Ruiz Publisher Comments For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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