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Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
by Julia Preston  Publisher Comments The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and...
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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....
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A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture
by Larissa Adl Lomnitz Publisher Comments "This is a rare glimpse into the family in the Mexican elite, and it provides us with an unusual depth of understanding. In a sense, the authors do for the upper sector what Oscar Lewis did for the lower sector."--Richard N. Adams, University of...
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The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
by Jeffrey H Cohen Publisher Comments Migration is a way of life for many individuals and even families in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some who leave their rural communities go only as far as the state capital, while others migrate to other parts of Mexico and to the United States. Most...
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Golden and Blue Like My Heart: Masculinity, Youth, and Power Among Soccer Fans in Mexico City
by Roger Magazine Publisher Comments For fans of pro soccer in Mexico City, the four most popular teams represent distinct identities that embody such attributes as political power, nationalism, and working-class values. One of these teams, the Pumas, is associated with youthfulness, and...
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Mexico Otherwise : Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers (05 Edition)
by Jurgen Buchenau Publisher Comments A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico by non-Mexican authors....
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A Brief History of Mexico, Updated Edition (Brief History)
by Lynn V. 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...
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Maximilian & Juarez
by Jasper Ridley Publisher Comments A strange episode that is at once a central part of American history and a tragic tale of human ambition and cultural misunderstanding. In an ill-starred undertaking, Napoleon III attempted to install Archduke Maximilian of Austria as the Emperor of...
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Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico (Latin America Otherwise)
by Laura A Lewis Publisher Comments "Here is a fine example of well-researched, 'thick' ethnographic description at the service of a fuller understanding of 'caste as a system of values, practices, and meanings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico.' "Hall of Mirrors "offers...
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Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and What It Means for Radical Politics
by Mihalis Mentinis Publisher Comments The Zapatista Army for National Liberation burst onto the world stage on January 1, 1994. Zapatista commander Subcomandante Marcos announced a revolution and declared war on the Mexican government and global capitalism. Since then, the Zapatistas have...
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Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader
by Ricardo Flore Magon Publisher Comments Along with Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magon (b. 1874) is regarded as one of the most important figures of the Mexican revolution. Through his newspaper "Regeneracion," he boldly criticized the injustices of the country's military dictatorship and...
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Discarded Pages: Araceli Cab Cumi, Maya Poet and Politician
by Araceli Cab Cumi Publisher Comments Araceli Cab Cum??? is a contemporary Maya writer, grassroots leader, and political party activist from Mexico. She is also the only indigenous woman to have been elected to the State Congress of Yucatan, serving two terms of office. Discarded Pages is...
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Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics
by Victoria Rodriguez Publisher Comments Since the mid-1980s, a dramatic opening in Mexico's political and electoral processes, combined with the growth of a new civic culture, has created unprecedented opportunities for women and other previously repressed or ignored groups to participate in...
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Volume 2
by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 2 of two-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements--all of which makes this...
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Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas
by Aaron Bobrow Strain Publisher Comments "Aaron Bobrow-Strain has made an invaluable, important contribution to our understanding of political conflict in Chiapas. This is the first book-length analysis in English that closely documents the landowners' perspectives on the Zapatista uprising and...
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Villa: Soldier of the Mexican Revolution (Brassey's Military Profiles)
by Robert L. Scheina Publisher Comments Starting with twenty-eight followers, Francisco Pancho Villa rose out of banditry to become a dynamic strategist who mastered the tactical use of a diverse array of weapons, including modern railroads and cavalry, to contest control of Mexico. In his...
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Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca
by Michael Jam Higgins Publisher Comments Together they also wrote "Oigame! Oigame!: Struggle and Social Change in a Nicaraguan Urban Community"....
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Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture #14: Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas
by Shannon Speed Publisher Comments Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas presents a diverse collection of voices exploring the human rights and gender issues that gained international attention after...
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Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border
by Miriam Davidson Publisher Comments Straddling an international border, the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are in many ways one community. For years the border was less distinct, with Mexicans crossing one way to visit family and friends and tourists crossing the...
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Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution
by Max Parra Publisher Comments The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco Pancho Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst...
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