Honorable Mention, Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American HistoryA government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in the later half of the eighteenth century were second only to the silver tithe as the most valuable source of government income. This comprehensive study of the tobacco monopoly illuminates many of the most important th...

Books make great gifts.Treat yourself this holiday season to 10 entertaining Christmas stories for every occasion.Written by master storytellers and upcoming new voices these stories span various worlds. From women’s fiction to fantasy, crime to hot romance and mystery, you will find a Christmas story for everyone to enjoy.Whether you want to shiver, laugh, cry or sigh, give yourself, or someone you know, the gift of stories this holiday season and all year through....

Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts!Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy,science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will find a Christmas tale for all occasions.Give yourself the gift of reading these Christmas stories and have a Very Merry Christmas!Table of Contents"North Pole Panic" by Re...

A child redefines identity and belonging in post-Soviet Hungary. A girl blossoming to adult awareness exchanges life for death in rural Canada. A college student chooses between the magic of ancient spirits and the magic of daily happiness in modern Japan. In futuristic India, a mother finds joy in the balance between family and career. Under the Andalusian sun, a mathematician consults his older self in affairs of love. In alternate Tanzania, a husband and wife discover wisdom in memory l...

Sometimes Sky Tate, with the help of two great ghost friends, solves a problem very quickly. Minutes. A superhero detective like her can do that.Not often that in solving a case you get to see a little more than you bargained for.

Sometimes Sky Tate, with the help of two great ghost friends, solves a problem very quickly. Minutes. A superhero detective like her can do that.Not often that in solving a case you get to see a little more than you bargained for.

This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present. The distinguished contributors to the volume bring into dialogue sophisticated new scholarship from an impressive range of disciplines, including social and cultural history, art h...

One Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution of One Health collaborations to real-world issues such as sanitation, economics, food security and vaccination programmes. It includes more non-infectious disease issues and climate change discus...

This is a book about objects. Stones, ruins, bones, mummies, mannequins, statues, photographs, fakes, instruments, and natural history specimens all formed part of Mexico’s National Museum complex at different moments across two centuries of collecting and display.Museum Matters traces the emergence, consolidation, and dispersal of this national museum complex by telling the stories of its objects. Objects that have been separated over time are brought back together in thi...