Jürgen Buchenau
Jürgen Buchenau is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico’s Central America Policy, 1876-1930 and coeditor of Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952: Portraits in Conflict, Corruption, and Courage.
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
Mexico OtherWise
Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers
A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.
- Copyright year: 2005
Tools of Progress
A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present
This history of Casa Boker, one of the first department stores in Mexico City, and its German owners provides important insights into Mexican and immigration history since the late nineteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2004
In the Shadow of the Giant
The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876-1930
This book analyzes Mexico's initiatives in Central America during the Porfirian and Revolutionary periods and pays particular attention to Mexico's persistent challenge to U.S. influence in Central America.
- Copyright year: 1996