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Open Borders to a Revolution
Open Borders to a Revolution
Edited by Jaime Marroquin, Adela Pineda Franco and Magdalena Mieri
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781935623120
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Open Borders to a Revolution
Culture, Politics, and Migration
Edited by Jaime Marroquin, Adela Pineda Franco and Magdalena Mieri


Format: Hardcover, 270 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $39.95

Open Borders to a Revolution is a collective enterprise studying the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought. It marks both the bicentennial of Latin America’s independence from Spain and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, an... Read more >
Narcoleaks
Narcoleaks
Written by Wilbert Torre
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9786073113625
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Narcoleaks

Written by Wilbert Torre


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
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A partir de una exhaustiva clasificación de los cables mexicanos de Wikileaks, el análisis de archivos nacionales y documentos clasificados del departamento de Estado norteamericano, esta investigación aborda con gran rigor y detalle uno de los temas más controvertidos de los tiempos recientes: el papel de Estados Unidos en la guerra... Read more >
La Guerra De Los Zetas
La Guerra De Los Zetas
Written by Diego Osorno
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ISBN: 9786073110273
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La Guerra De Los Zetas

Written by Diego Osorno


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
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Sin duda, Los Zetas es uno de los grupos más poderosos y sanguinarios del narcotráfico en México. Este libro documenta puntualmente su historia y las complejas redes que lo conforman. Al investigar las particularidades de lo que se podría denominar el «enigma Z», Diego Osorno advierte los riesgos que corre el... Read more >
Los Mitos Que Nos Dieron Traumas
Los Mitos Que Nos Dieron Traumas
Written by Juan Miguel Zuzunegui
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ISBN: 9786073111072
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Los Mitos Que Nos Dieron Traumas

Written by Juan Miguel Zuzunegui


Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
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Vamos a mandar a México a unas cuantas sesiones de psicoterapia. Cinco serán suficientes para que, analizando algunos de sus mitos, supere los más perjudiciales de sus traumas; lo acostaremos en el diván y lo enfrentaremos contra sí mismo, para ver si la lógica y la razón logran imponerse contra los dogmas históricos ridículos que... Read more >
MEXICO: The Struggle for Peace and Bread
MEXICO: The Struggle for Peace and Bread
Written by Frank Tannenbaum
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ISBN: 9780307826480
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MEXICO: The Struggle for Peace and Bread

Written by Frank Tannenbaum


Format: eBook, 293 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
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Into this illuminating study of the meaning of Mexico’s recent history Frank Tannenbaum has put the distillation of more than three decades of the familiarity with that country. Having traveled Mexico from the Rio Grande to the Guatemalan border, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and having been friendly with peasants... Read more >
Narcomex
Narcomex
Written by Ricardo Ravelo
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ISBN: 9780307832634
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Narcomex

Written by Ricardo Ravelo


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99

El libro imprescindible para comprender el fenómeno del narcotráfico en México
 
En esta incisiva y apasionante investigación periodística, Ricardo Ravelo, uno de los mayores expertos en temas de narcotráfico, nos presenta todos los ángulos esenciales para entender  la guerra mas sangrienta que ha vivido México desde hace un siglo: las rutas de la... Read more >
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Mexico Rebelde
Mexico Rebelde
Written by John Gibler
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ISBN: 9786073105101
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Mexico Rebelde

Written by John Gibler


Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $14.95

Las crónicas que conforman este libro son el resultado de varios años de trabajo y compenetración del periodista independiente John Gibler con el México de abajo: con la pobreza y la desigualdad, con los presos políticos y las víctimas de la violencia estatal, con el movimiento popular de Oaxaca, con la lucha de los... Read more >
Aztec Warrior
AD 1325-1521
Written by John Pohl
Illustrated by Adam Hook


Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $14.95

According to one popular image, the Aztec army was a ruthless and efficient war machine, that established an empire by convincingly overwhelming its neighbors, sacrificing thousands to bloodthirsty gods along the way. From a contrasting perspective, its native warriors were no match for the modern warring methods of Cortés' greatly outnumbered... Read more >
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The Hunt for Pancho Villa - The Columbus Raid and Pershing's Punitive Expedition 1916-17
The Hunt for Pancho Villa - The Columbus Raid and Pershing's Punitive Expedition 1916-17
Written by Alejandro Quesada, Illustrated by Peter Dennis
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ISBN: 9781849085687
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The Hunt for Pancho Villa - The Columbus Raid and Pershing's Punitive Expedition 1916-17

Written by Alejandro Quesada
Illustrated by Peter Dennis


Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $18.95

On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing led an expeditionary force... Read more >
The Hunt for Pancho Villa - The Columbus Raid and Pershing#s Punitive Expedition 1916-17

Written by Alejandro Quesada
Illustrated by Peter Dennis


Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $9.95

On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing led an expeditionary force... Read more >
Narcomex
Narcomex
Written by Ricardo Ravelo
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ISBN: 9780307947741
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Narcomex

Written by Ricardo Ravelo


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.95

El libro imprescindible para comprender el fenómeno del narcotráfico en México
 
En esta incisiva y apasionante investigación periodística, Ricardo Ravelo, uno de los mayores expertos en temas de narcotráfico, nos presenta todos los ángulos esenciales para entender  la guerra mas sangrienta que ha vivido México desde hace un siglo: las rutas de la... Read more >
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Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
Written by John Womack
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ISBN: 9780307803320
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Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

Written by John Womack


Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $14.99

Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
John Womack, Jr.

". . . It is certainly the definitive study of Emiliano Zapata, and it places him in his proper context."
—Frank Jellinek, The New York Times Book Review

"A feat of historical writing . . . Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely complex strains of...

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Distant Neighbors
Distant Neighbors
Written by Alan Riding
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ISBN: 9780307793805
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Distant Neighbors
A Portrait of the Mexicans
Written by Alan Riding


Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $14.99

A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.


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Tenochtitlán
Tenochtitlán
Written by Jose de Leon Sanchez
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ISBN: 9780307882677
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Tenochtitlán

Written by Jose de Leon Sanchez


Format: Trade Paperback, 412 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $20.00

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'68

Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith


Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95

On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse... Read more >
General Jo Shelby's March
General Jo Shelby's March
Written by Anthony Arthur
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ISBN: 9780679603955
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General Jo Shelby's March

Written by Anthony Arthur


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $14.99

Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness... Read more >
Conquistador
Conquistador
Written by Buddy Levy
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ISBN: 9780553384710
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Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy


Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $18.00

In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.

It was a moment unique in human history... Read more >
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101 preguntas de historia de México
101 preguntas de historia de México
Written by Carlos Silva
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ISBN: 9780307392749
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101 preguntas de historia de México

Written by Carlos Silva


Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
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Conquistador
Conquistador
Written by Buddy Levy
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ISBN: 9780553905267
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Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy


Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.99

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.

“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured... Read more >
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The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition
The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition
Written by Miguel Leon-Portilla
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ISBN: 9780807055007
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The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition
The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Written by Miguel Leon-Portilla


Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $19.00

For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated... Read more >
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Flesh Life
Flesh Life
Text by Trisha Ziff, Afterword by Pedro Meyer, Photographed by Joseph Rodriguez, Introduction by Ruben Martinez
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781576873106
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Flesh Life
Sex in Mexico City
Text by Trisha Ziff
Afterword by Pedro Meyer
Photographed by Joseph Rodriguez
Introduction by Ruben Martinez


Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $35.00

“Spirit, flesh: in the end the same quest, born of a crumbling economy and identity. The single most apparent sign is the proliferation in prostitution, an ‘outing’ of what has always existed, but furtively. The government has officially admitted that it is impossible to rein in the sex trade; Mexico City... Read more >
CARTEL, EL
CARTEL, EL
Written by Jesus Blancornelas
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ISBN: 9780307274182
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CARTEL, EL

Written by Jesus Blancornelas


Format: Paperback, 372 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2005
Price: $9.95

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68
68
Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781583226087
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68

Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith


Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $12.95

On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse... Read more >
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68
68
Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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ISBN: 9781583226001
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68

Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II


Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $12.95

68 es una agarradora narración en primera persona hecha por uno de los más distinguidos y prolíficos escritores mexicanos de todos los tiempos, acerca de la masacre estudiantil de Tlatelolco llevada a cabo en Ciudad de México en 1968. El propósito de Paco Ignacio Taibo II es el de recuperar, a... Read more >
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