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The Labyrinth of Solitude 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Aztec World by Elizabeth Brumfiel Publisher Comments The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history,... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (93 Edition) by Louis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments A compelling and unprecedented look at life on the other side of the border. Despite the numbers of people crossing over to the U.S., hundreds more remain behind in abject poverty. Urrea worked closely with them and provides a compassionate and candid... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Devil's Highway : True Story (04 Edition) by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 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) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca: Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) by Robert Lloyd Williams Publisher Comments In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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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 $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico, Reader : History, Culture, Politics (02 Edition) by Gilbert M. Joseph Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [757]-762) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford History of Mexico by Michael C Meyer Publisher Comments Mexico is a country of fascinating contrasts--glorious history and tumultuous politics, extraordinary culture and desperate poverty, ancient traditions and rapid modernization. Yet despite the growing curiosity about Mexico due to increased trade and... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $24.95 Used - Hardcover
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Yucatan : Before and After the Conquest (78 Edition) by Diego De Landa Publisher Comments Only significant account done of Yucatan in post-Conquest era. Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest and its effects, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico: Volume 2, the Colonial Era by Alan Knight Publisher Comments This book is one in a three volume general history of Mexico, comprising (I) the PreConquest period to 1521, (II) the Colonial period from 1521 to 1821, and (III) the National period from 1821-present. These books give a comprehensive narrative and... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico: From Olmecs To Aztecs (6TH 09 Edition) by Michael D. Coe Publisher Comments "Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted."—Library Journal Michael D. Coe's Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region's ancient... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Things I Like about America: Personal Narratives by Poe Ballantine Publisher Comments In a style reminiscent of David Sedaris, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Scott Carrier, these true stories of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer chronicle Ballantine's search for America as he rides the Greyhound bus from small town... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas Publisher Comments THE UNPARALLELED HISTORY OF THE FALL OF OLD MEXICO Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Victors and the Vanquished : Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (00 Edition) by Stuart B. Schwartz Publisher Comments In 1519 Hernán Cortés and a small band of Spanish conquistadors overthrew the mighty Mexican empire of the Aztecs. Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz's 1632 account of the Spanish victory and testimonies many recently uncovered of... (read more) List Price $14.40 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Religion and Empire (84 Edition) by Geoffrey W. Conrad Publisher Comments A provocative, comparative study of the formation and expansion of the Aztec and Inca empires. Argues that prehistoric cultural development is largely determined by continual changes in traditional religion.... (read more) List Price $41.99 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx by Sam Quinones Publisher Comments Keen observation and astute interviews lead journalist Sam Quinones on the quest to find the authentic modern Mexico — both in Mexico and East L.A., and other parts of the U.S.... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Lords of Palenque by Victor Perera Synopsis The Last Lords of Lalenque is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Que Vivan Los Tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity (Dialogos) by Jeffrey M Pilcher Publisher Comments This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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