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Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities (Objects/Histories)
Laura E. Pérez
Duke University Press
Duke University Press
In Alma Lopez’s digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two iconsâthe Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cardsâembrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire...
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The Border: Exploring the U.S.-Mexican Divide
David J. Danelo
Stackpole Books
Stackpole Books
- Thoughtful investigative report about a central issue of the 2008 presidential race - Asks and answers the core questions: Should we close the border? Is a fence or wall the answer? Is the U.S. government capable of fully securing the border? ...
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Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico (Second Edition)
William H. Beezley
Bison Books
Bison Books
This brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time Mexico underwent modernization, which produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the...
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Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
Luis Alberto Urrea
Anchor
Anchor
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...
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Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas
George A. Collier, Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello
Food First
Food First
¡Hoy decimos basta! Today we say, enough! On January 1, 1994, in the impoverished state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Zapatista rebellion shot into the international spotlight. In this fully revised third edition of their classic study of the...
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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
Martin Dugard
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company
Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox , they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and...
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The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720
R. Douglas Cope
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Wisconsin Press
In this distinguished contribution to Latin American colonial history, Douglas Cope draws upon a wide variety of sourcesâincluding Inquisition and court cases, notarial records and parish registersâto challenge the traditional view of...
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Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (The American Presidents)
John S. D. Eisenhower, Arthur M. Schlesinger
Times Books
Times Books
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier’s soldier, a man who lived up to his...
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Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
University of Texas Press
University of Texas Press
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the...
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