New Books in Mexican Studies

Interviews with scholars of Mexico about their new book

History
Social Sciences
Books
201
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...
86 min
202
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...
48 min
203
Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: Th...
Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...
59 min
204
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...
42 min
205
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...
60 min
206
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...
50 min
207
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...
37 min
208
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...
64 min
209
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...
61 min
210
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...
58 min
211
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...
37 min
212
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...
41 min
213
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...
32 min
214
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...
57 min
215
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making I...
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
47 min
216
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...
52 min
217
Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
54 min
218
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...
48 min
219
Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles...
Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...
49 min
220
Elena Albarrán, "Seen and Heard in Mexico: Chil...
Albarran explores the changing politics of childhood during the period 1920-1940, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution...
48 min
221
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents...
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
67 min
222
Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Lett...
"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...
53 min
223
Bernardo Ramirez Rios, "Transnational Sport in ...
The game of basketball is not necessarily associated with Mexicans or Mexican Americans...
55 min
224
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordi...
Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...
68 min
225
Joseph U. Lenti, "Redeeming the Revolution: The...
Lenti focuses on state-labor relations in the decade directly following the massacre of peacefully protesting students in 1968...
49 min