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500 Years of Chicana Women's History/ Anos de Historia de las Chicanans
Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of...
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The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
Linda Schele, Peter Mathews, Macduff Everton
Scribner
Scribner
This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings...
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Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico : Men, Women, and War
Mark Wasserman
University of New Mexico Press
University of New Mexico Press
In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women-preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter-and the elites' desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy. The...
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Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Laura Gomez
NYU Press
NYU Press
View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction We Know We’re Not White: Author Interview on San Diego Weekly Reader Gómez sets out to write an antidote to historical amnesia about the key nineteenth-century events that produced the...
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Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement, Revised and Expanded Edition
Carlos Munoz
Verso
Verso
Youth, Identity, Power is a unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America. Carlos Muñoz, Jr, himself a leader of the Chicano movement of the 1960s, places the movement in the wider context of the political...
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Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Frances Berdan
Wadsworth Publishing
Wadsworth Publishing
Who were the Aztecs, really? AZTECS OF CENTRAL MEXICO: AN IMPERIAL SOCIETY answers that question by covering the compelling story of a complex, imperial society in Central Mexico during the 15th and 16th centuries. It uses pre- and post-Spanish...
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Vintage
Vintage
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan...
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True Tales from Another Mexico
Sam Quinones
University of New Mexico Press
University of New Mexico Press
As journalist Sam Quinones convincingly demonstrates, much of Mexico was already changing before the July 2000 presidential elections which ousted the PRI and presented the world with President-elect Vincente Fox. Fox's victory marked the triumph...
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