Mexico category: 1477 books
A Narco History
How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from,...
by Susan J Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Real virgins say, "Yes!" (In Mexico, they say "Sí!") With that answer, Susan Cobb commits to remodeling a house on the coast of Mexico-and refurbishing her life along with it. Virgin Territory will transport you to the rural lushness of Mexico's Pacific Coast, a region bursting...
by Carlos Fuentes
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In the essays in A New Time for Mexico, Carlos Fuentes discusses the history, origins and nature of Mexico's political system and the unforeseen, tumultuous events that began in 1994 with the rebellion in Chiapas and continued with a rash of assassinations, the break between presidents Salinas and...
El Monstruo
Dread and Redemption in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated...
First World Dreams
Mexico since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Mexicans have long dreamt of the First World, and in recent times it has landed with a thud. Under the guise of globalization, Mexico opened its borders, reformed its political system, and transformed its economy. The impacts have been paradoxical. In First World Dreams Alexander Dawson explores the...
The Wind that Swept Mexico
The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs,...
For God and Revolution
Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
During the early 1880s, a wave of peasant unrest swept the mountainous Huasteca region of northeastern Mexico. The rebels demanded political autonomy for their pueblos, protection for their churches, and restoration of the land, water, and foraging rights that were a part of their heritage—issues...
Catholic Borderlands
Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Society’s duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, public school teachers, and...
Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico
Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile,...
The Illusion of Ignorance
Constructing the American Encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world. Detailed discussions of the logistics of conducting diplomacy, doing business, or traveling abroad in the era...
A Glorious Defeat
Mexico and Its War with the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a host of tensions that led to devastating civil...
Seeds of Empire
Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that...
Images at War
Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2001
“If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking...
by Benjamin T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith’s study begins with...