New Books in Mexican Studies
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David Tavárez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous D...
Tavárez guides his readers through four centuries of the Mexican Inquisition in the episcopal sees of México and Oaxaca...
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Maurice S. Crandall, "These People Have Always ...
Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power...
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Mark Santiago, "A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spa...
In August 1795, Apaches wiped out two Spanish patrols In the desert borderlands of the what is today the American Southwest and Mexican north....
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Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, "Vortex of Violence: Ly...
Kloppe-Santamaría examines the history of violence enacted by groups against alleged transgressors who claimed to bring justice while acting beyond the rule of law...
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Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and R...
Barragán-Goetz argues that through cultural negotiation, escuelitas (community schools) shaped Mexican American identity and civil rights activism in the late 19th and early 20th century...
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Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago Católico: Making Ca...
What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?
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José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sport...
Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...
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David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around:...
Tavarez and his colleagues tackle the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several indigenous languages...
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Benjamin T. Smith, "The Mexican Press and Civil...
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression...
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Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: Th...
Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...
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Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Think...
The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...
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David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep Hi...
Carballo provides a deep history of the encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain...
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Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethno...
Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...
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Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera"...
Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...
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Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers...
Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment...
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Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-V...
Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas...
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Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heav...
Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada...
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John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: Th...
Weber discusses migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed in South Texas during the early twentieth century...
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Salvador Salinas, "Land, Liberty, and Water: Mo...
Salinas fills an important gap in the history of the Zapatista Revolution in Morelos - namely, what happened after 1920...
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Matthew D. O'Hara, "The History of the Future i...
O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...
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C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
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S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making I...
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
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Kathleen M. McIntyre, "Protestantism and State ...
McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...
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Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
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Christina Jiménez, "Making an Urban Public: Pop...
"Making an Urban Public" is a social history of the city of Morelia, located in Western Mexico in the state of Michoacán...
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