Nonfiction - Latinx Reads
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La Cristiada: The Mexican People's War for Religious Liberty
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a world filled with constant religious intolerance and strife, it is easy to overlook a little known twentieth-century religious war that was fo...
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Mexican Postcards / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Carlos Monsiváis is one of Latin America’s most prescient and prolific social commentators. In this, the first English translation of his work, h...
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Traición en Palacio: El negocio de la justicia en la 4T / Betrayal in the Palace . Justice As a Business in AMLOs 4T
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Antes de finalizar el tercer año de su gobierno, Andrés Manuel López Obrador apartó de su equipo disfrazando el hecho como una salida amistosa a ...
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Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Bernal Díaz del Castillo fue uno de los descubridores y conquistadores de la Nueva España, sus provincias y del cabo de Honduras. Ya viejo y reti...
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Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous polit...
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Luchadores: A History of Lucha Libre
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /What started in small venues around Mexico in the 1930s has become an industry that is now known all around the world. Millions of fans attend li...
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a...
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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign...
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Felipe, el oscuro
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Calderón es una mezcla de malas maneras y mala suerte. Como no creo en la mala o buena suerte, deposito énfasis en las malas maneras. Llegó en ci...
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History of Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will readers understand the lively and sometimes turbulent history of our neighbor to the south. Su...
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known...
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Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical sup...
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Ecos de Nueva España. Los siglos perdidos en la historia de México / Echoes of t he New Spain: The Lost Centuries in Mexican History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Casi 300 años de historia se asoman en este original y divertido libro ilustrado que recupera los viajes, lugares, oficios, costumbres y personaj...
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The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la c...
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The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social ...
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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico b...
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism By one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into...
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Fire And Blood: A History Of Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Mexico's history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and spectacular cultural achievements. A ...
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The Taken: True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug traffi...
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Fallen Guidon: The Saga of Confederate General Jo Shelby's March to Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Although Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, some Confederates refused to abandon their cause. Fallen Guidon, originally pu...
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Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Connections between what people eat and who they are—between cuisine and identity—reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...
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The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /"The Decolonial Imaginary is a smart, challenging book that disrupts a great deal of what we think we know . . . it will certainly be read seriou...
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Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 152...
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A Concise History of Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico's struggle to break out of the coloni...
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