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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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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Staff Pick The heyday of whaling examined through the plight of the Whaleship Essex. This is the best sort of popular history writing.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aztec Warrior by John Pohl Publisher Comments According to one popular image, the Aztec army was a ruthless and efficient war machine, that established an empire by convincingly overwhelming its neighbors, sacrificing thousands to bloodthirsty gods along the way. From a contrasting perspective, its... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535-1550 by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano Publisher Comments Originally published in Mexico as Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study Reshaping New Spain is now available in an updated English edition. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - 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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Mexican Mosaic: a Brief History of Mexico (08 Edition) by Jurgen Buchenau Publisher Comments Our new brief text highlights Mexico's stunning geographical, ethnic, and social diversity. In the sixteenth century, diseases brought by the Spanish conquerors wiped out almost 90 per cent of the indigenous population. Since then, Mexico - first as a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico: From Olmecs To Aztecs (6TH 09 Edition) by Michael D. Coe Publisher Comments Michael D. Coe's Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region's ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been completely revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz. The... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor Staff Pick Rain of Gold is an engrossing read that's full of tales both tall and true. Villaseñor has a way of getting to one's heart through the stories of his ancestors and the journey that leads to his parents meeting. The sequel, Thirteen Senses, is... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya by David Stuart Publisher Comments Sunday, June 15, 1952. Having spent four years clearing a secret passage inside Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions, Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz gazed into a vaulted chamber. There, beneath a gigantic carved stone block, he would make a... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Aztec Empire (True Books: Ancient Civilizations) by Sunita Apte Synopsis - Clean new design for easy readability and comprehension - Updated text presented in a lively, continuous narrative - New center-spread sidebar feature presenting material in a fun, creative way - Excellent age-appropriate introduction to curriculum... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain by Susan Schroeder Publisher Comments Ethnic rebellions continually disrupted the Pax Colonial, Spains three-hundred-year rule over the Native peoples of Mexico. Although these uprisings varied considerably in cause, duration, consequences, and scale, they collectively served as a constant... (read more) Your price: $29.25 New - 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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The History of Mexico (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations the Greenwood Hist) by J. Burton Kirkwood Publisher Comments The History of Mexico: Second Edition provides a timely introduction to the United States' complex and fascinating neighbor, tracing Mexico's history from the arrival of the first humans through the first decade of the 21st century. This second edition... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Zapata and the Mexican Revolution by John Womack Publisher Comments A biography of the Mexican patriot who organized and led his rural community in resistance to the central... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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History of Mexico (05 Edition) by Burton Kirkwood Publisher Comments This narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will readers understand the lively and sometimes turbulent history of our neighbor to the south. Surveying Mexico from the arrival of the first humans in the Western Hemisphere to current issues at the turn... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conquest of New Spain by B Diaz Del Castillo Publisher Comments Fifty years after the startling defeat of the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a magnificent account on his experience as a soldier in CortésÆs army.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People's History of Mexican Revolution (05 Edition) by Adolfo Gilly Publisher Comments An account of the twentieth century's first revolution documents the conflict between the first peasant uprisings against the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz and lvaro Obregn's inauguration as president in 1920, describing key events and the contributions... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (Dialogos) by Camilla Townsend Publisher Comments The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Emiliano Zapata: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Albert Rolls Publisher Comments Emiliano Zapata is regarded as among the most important figures of the Mexican Revolution. This book provides more than just a biography of a great leader; it enables readers to understand who Zapata was and the interests and ideologies he supported... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.45 New - Hardcover
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