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
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
A History of Mining in Latin America
From the Colonial Era to the Present
- Copyright year: 2012
Modernizing Minds in El Salvador
Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960–1980
- Copyright year: 2012
Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico
- Copyright year: 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina
Letters to Juan and Eva Perón
Focusing on the first era of Peronism, from 1946 to 1955, this work shows how President Perón and the First Lady created charismatic ways to link themselves to Argentine supporters through letter writing.
- Copyright year: 2016
Sons of the Mexican Revolution
Miguel Alemán and His Generation
Using a wide array of new archival sources, Alexander demonstrates that the transformative political decisions made by civilian government officials, after the 1946 election, represented both their collective values as a generation and their effort to adapt those values to the realities of the Cold War.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Pursuit of Ruins
Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico
The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains in Mexico took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio DÃaz.
- Copyright year: 2016
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.
- Copyright year: 2017
Murder in Mérida, 1792
Violence, Factions, and the Law
This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries' imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid.
- Copyright year: 2018
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.
- Copyright year: 2018
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses.
- Copyright year: 2018