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Gendered Crossings

Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire

University of New Mexico Press

Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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From Shipmates to Soldiers

Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata

University of New Mexico Press

This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Searching for Madre Matiana

Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Edward Wright-Rios examines the much-maligned--and sometimes celebrated--character of Madre Matiana and her position in the development of Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Women Drug Traffickers

Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime

University of New Mexico Press

"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Africans into Creoles

Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica

University of New Mexico Press

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Native Brazil

Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900

Edited by Hal Langfur
University of New Mexico Press

This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Course of Andean History

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Modernizing Minds in El Salvador

Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960–1980

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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A History of Mining in Latin America

From the Colonial Era to the Present

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World

University of New Mexico Press

Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Cuauhtémoc's Bones

Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhte?moc's tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the set of ideas, beliefs, and dreams that bind societies to the nation-state.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Irresistible Forces

Latin American Migration to the United States and its Effects on the South

University of New Mexico Press

This study examines the phenomenon of the impact of Latin American migration on the southeastern United States, a region that now has the nation's fastest growing immigrant population.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Damned Notions of Liberty

Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640-1769

University of New Mexico Press

This study explores the lived experience of slavery from the perspective of slaves themselves to reveal how the enslaved may have conceptualized and contested their subordinated social positions in New Spain's middle colonial period (roughly 1630-1760s).

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The War for Mexico's West

Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550

University of New Mexico Press

Altman has undertaken the challenging task of examining the Spaniards' attempt to conquer and settle the western region of Mexico (New Galicia).

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Black Mexico

Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

University of New Mexico Press

This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Aftershocks

Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

In using natural disasters as a way to study societal and especially political change, the essays in this volume illustrate the immediate as well as the long term consequences of destruction.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This edited volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of social deviance from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans

University of New Mexico Press

These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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