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  • Fifth Sun

    A New History of the Aztecs

    In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Maya Mythology: Myths and Folklore of the Mayan Civilization

    The Mayan people were natural storytellers, and their imagination knew no bounds. They took the traditional Mesoamerican versions of creation and the gods of the universe and molded them into their own, adding and shaping their unique version of mythology and folktales. This left us with a significant pantheon of gods and goddesses, each with a memorable and captivating story. The Mayans had an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old Villita and La Villita Continues

    Old Villita is reissued by Wings Press in celebration of the Tricentennial of the founding of San Antonio, Texas on May 5, 1718. It was originally published in 1939 by the City of San Antonio as part of the American Guide Series (Federal Writers Project, under the Work Projects Administration). It was overseen and edited by the mayor of San Antonio, Maury Maverick, Sr. Earlier in the 1930s, U.S. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

    **Winner of the Bancroft Prize • Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize • Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 • A Kirkus Reviews Best World History ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Albores de la República en México

    Series Book 7 - Historia de los países latinoamericanos
    La rica pero convulsa historia de México es pródiga en episodios que mezclan culturales, fomentan nacionalismo y constituyen ejemplo para otros países del mundo. A manera de ejemplo estos son los temas que trata el libro:Don Agustín de Iturbide se embarcó en Veracruz el día 11 de mayo para el puerto de Liorna, juntamente con su familia, y la nación mexicana quedó entregada al combate de las ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

    Testimony and Social Movements

    by Lynn Stephen ...
    A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • La consumación de la Independencia

    Series series Fondo 2000
    Lorenzo de Zavala fue uno de los participantes más enigmáticos en la configuración del México independiente y una de las figuras más polémicas del siglo XIX mexicano. Defendió la independencia de México pero acabó como vicepresidente de la efímera República de Texas, renunciando a su nacionalidad. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of the Pain of Others

    Chronicle of a Small Genocide

    A brilliant work of historical excavation with profound echoes in an age redolent with violence and xenophobiaEarly in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico’s ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants—close to half of the Cantonese residents of the newly founded city of Torreón—were massacred over the course of three days. It is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Oaxaca Resurgent

    Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico

    Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham traces the contested history of indigenous development and the trajectory of the Mexican government's Instituto Nacional Indigenista, the most ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • North America

    An Introduction

    Historians have traditionally approached North America through the lens of the nation-state rather than from a continental perspective. While acknowledging that the geographic vastness and historical complexity of North America make it difficult to study as a whole, authors Michael Brescia and John Super build on the premise that the experiences of each country can be better understood when ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo

    Complete Edition

    In "The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal D√≠az del Castillo," the author presents a compelling first-hand account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, blending vivid narrative with keen observations that reflect both the brutality and wonder of the New World. Written in an accessible yet richly descriptive prose style, D√≠az del Castillo'Äôs memoirs serve as both a historical document and a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds

    Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

    An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural synthesis--mestizaje--that has defined the Mexican people since the Spanish conquest in the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • El Porfiriato y la Revolución en la historia de México

    El origen de este libro es una conversación en la que el eminente historiador Friedrich Katz y su amigo y colega de muchos años, el antropólogo Claudio Lomnitz, dialogan detenidamente sobre el Porfiriato y la Revolución. La plática fue grabada para una serie de programas que transmitió el IMER con motivo del centenario de la Revolución mexicana. En esta amenísima e inteligente charla, Katz y ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsettled Land

    From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

    by Sam W. Haynes ...
    A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regionsThe Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940

    This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social uprising of the twentieth century. In 1911, land-hungry peasants united with discontented political elites to overthrow General Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled Mexico for three decades. Gonzales offers a path breaking overview of the revolution from its ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Yesterday in Mexico

    A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936

    Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W. F. Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico’s emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told—by letting events speak for themselves, without any interpretations or appraisal.The resultant book offers an interesting paradox: it is ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Mexico: Democracy Interrupted

    In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the PAN victory were not consolidated. In this vivid account of Mexico's recent history, a journalist with ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Los indios en la historia de México

    Edited by Margarita Menegus ...
    Series series Historia. Serie Herramientas para la Historia
    Esta obra hace un balance historiográfico de los temas más importantes que acogen al mundo indígena desde el siglo XVI al XIX. Dentro de la amplitud de temas existentes en este largo periodo la autora ha dado preferencia a los aspectos socioeconómicos del mundo rural en su devenir a lo largo de cuatro siglos. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morir en el Intento

    La Peor Tragedia de Immigrantes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos

    by Jorge Ramos ...
    La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso... Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo y mejores oportunidades de vida. Pero para un grupo de inmigrantes que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente y se subió a un trailer la noche del 13 de mayo del 2003, este sueño se tornó en una tragedia. Al menos 73 personas ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Homelands

    Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration

    From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today.Homelands is the story of Mexican immigration to the United States over the last three decades. Written by Alfredo Corchado, one of the most prominent Mexican American journalists, it's told from the perspective of four friends who first meet in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Seeds of Empire

    Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    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 cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Diario de las operaciones militares del Sitio de Puebla en 1863 escrito por el teniente coronel Francisco P. Troncoso durante el asedio de la plaza

    Series Book 4 - Selección Sitio de Puebla
    Un libro que arroja nuevas interpretaciones y posibilidades de abordaje de un episodio histórico muy estudiado: el Sitio de Puebla. Los protagonistas de la historia se renuevan y nuevos hechos se nos presentan. Una publicación conmemorativa del 150 aniversario del Sitio de Puebla. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venganza de la colonia

    Dificultades políticas durante los primeros años de la República Mexicana

    Series Book 12 - Historia de los países latinoamericanos
    Venganza de la Colonia es un trabajo de Lorenzo de Zavala que en realidad es un extracto del segundo tomo de su obra magna, Ensayo crítico de las revoluciones de México desde 1808 hasta 1830. Incluye desde el capítulo sexto hasta el décimotercero, la conclusión, y el apéndice de la referida segunda parte.Lorenzo de Zavala aborda la realidad político-militar del México independiente, entre 1829 y ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire & Blood

    A History of Mexico

    Mexican history comes to life in this “fascinating” work by the author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (The Christian Science Monitor).Fire & Blood brilliantly depicts the succession of tribes and societies that have variously called Mexico their home, their battleground, and their legacy. This is the tale of the indigenous people who forged from this rugged terrain a wide-ranging ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus