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The Zimmermann Telegram

Conquistador Voices (vol I)

The Dead March

Zapata of Mexico

My Life

The Adventurer's Son

Hernán Cortés

Witches

The Last Emperor of Mexico

Señorita Telefonista

The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

Black Market Capital

O Mistério Do Manto

They Called It Pearson

Espacios, climas y aventuras: El Galeón de Filipinas y la fragata de las Marianas en el Pacífico occidental (1680-1700)

Miscelánea palafoxiana y poblana

Die heilige Kultur der Maya

Oil, Banks, and Politics

The Inevitable Bandstand

The Conquest of New Spain

Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009

La golosina del oro

El juicio de la historia: Maximiliano

La democracia en México