Gendered Crossings
Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
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
From Shipmates to Soldiers
Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
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
Searching for Madre Matiana
Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
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
Women Drug Traffickers
Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime
"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
Africans into Creoles
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica
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
Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico
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
Native Brazil
Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.
- Copyright year: 2014
Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico
- Copyright year: 2012
Modernizing Minds in El Salvador
Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960–1980
- Copyright year: 2012
A History of Mining in Latin America
From the Colonial Era to the Present
- Copyright year: 2012
Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World
Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.
- Copyright year: 2011
Cuauhtémoc's Bones
Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico
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
Irresistible Forces
Latin American Migration to the United States and its Effects on the South
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
Damned Notions of Liberty
Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640-1769
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
The War for Mexico's West
Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550
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
Black Mexico
Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
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
Aftershocks
Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America
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
True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico
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
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
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