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Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library Journal Michael D. Coe’s Mex...
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Aztec and Maya: An Illustrated History: The Definitive Chronicle of the Ancient Peoples of Central America and Mexico - Including the Aztec, Maya, Olm
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An enthralling reference to the architecture, art, religion, myths and everyday life of the Aztec and Maya civilizations, in a new edition with 100...
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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That ...
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The Last Days of the Incas
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent di...
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Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670-1810
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abu...
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The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade....
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The Formation of Latin American Nations: From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /This pioneering work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columb...
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Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Winner, Premio Flora Tristán Al Mejor Libro, Peru Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2019 After the Spanish victories over the Inca cla...
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Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the ...
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Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be u...
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Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1522-1540
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lop...
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped t...
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Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully prese...
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Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the Frenc...
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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last ...
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico--and faced bloody consequences. In ...
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Modern Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Now thoroughly updated in its ninth edition, Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and a leading interdisciplinary text in the field...
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Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. ...
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Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. ...
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Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890-1965
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The first decades of the twentieth century were crucial for the development of Mexican circular family migration, a process shaped by family and co...
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Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890-1965
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The first decades of the twentieth century were crucial for the development of Mexican circular family migration, a process shaped by family and co...
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The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938): A Struggle Between Art and Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /The world-renowned Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life ...
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Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in th...
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Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in th...
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