Searching for Madre Matiana

Edward Wright-Rios

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• In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed tha... Lees meer

Andean Worlds

Kenneth J Andrien

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• This broadly gauged, synthetic study examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire (called Tawintinsuyu) in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversi... Lees meer

The Age of Dissent

Martín Bowen

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• The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable componen... Lees meer

Mexico City, 1808

John Tutino

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• In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon i... Lees meer

The Origins of Macho

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

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• With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype associating Mex... Lees meer

Women Drug Traffickers

Elaine Carey

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• In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confi... Lees meer

At the Heart of the Borderlands

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• At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people of A... Lees meer

A Woman, a Man, a Nation

Jeffrey M Shumway

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• In 1837 Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Lea... Lees meer

Africans Into Creoles

Russell Lohse

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• Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journ... Lees meer

Plaza of Sacrifices

Elaine Carey

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• The government-sanctioned killing of student protesters in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, continues to haunt the city and the nation. Elaine Carey's ... Lees meer

A History of Mining in Latin America

Kendall W Brown

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• For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. H... Lees meer

Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches

Joan Cameron Bristol

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• The decline of the native population following the Spanish conquest of New Spain in 1521, among other factors, led to an increased demand for African ... Lees meer

Tangled Destinies

Don M Coerver, Linda B Hall

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• An imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have long plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This book offers an i... Lees meer

Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire

Sarah E Owens

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• 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 e... Lees meer

Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans

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• This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship that... Lees meer

From Shipmates to Soldiers

Alex Borucki

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• Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but ... Lees meer

Gamboa's World

Christopher Albi

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• Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794... Lees meer

Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America

Thomas O'Brien

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• This book addresses two issues basic to understanding modern Latin America: the role of American-owned businesses in the region and, of equal importan... Lees meer

Gamboa's World

Christopher Albi

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• Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794... Lees meer

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821

Kelly Donahue-Wallace

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• Kelly Donahue-Wallace surveys the art and architecture created in the Spanish Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata from the tim... Lees meer

Murder in Mérida, 1792

Mark W Lentz

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• During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Mérida, Yucatan, and murdered the province's ... Lees meer

The War for Mexico's West

Ida Altman

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• The War for Mexico's West examines a dramatic, complex episode in the early history of New Spain that stands as an instructive counterpoint to the muc... Lees meer

Tides of Revolution

Cristina Soriano

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• Winner of the 2019 Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, an... Lees meer

Black Mexico

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• The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from "New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro... Lees meer