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Nicholas Villanueva Jr., “The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands” (U New Mexico Press, 2017) 
Nicholas Villanueva Jr.
The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands

University of New Mexico Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network June 22, 2018 Stephen Hausmann

More than just a civil war, the Mexican Revolution in 1910 triggered hostilities along the border between Mexico and the United States. In particular, the decade following the revolution saw a dramatic rise in the lynching of ethnic Mexicans in… Read More
Ignacio Aguiló, “The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina” (U Wales Press, 2018)
Ignacio Aguiló
The Darkening Nation
Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina
University of Wales Press, 2018

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World Affairs June 19, 2018 Pamela Fuentes

In The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina (University of Wales Press, 2018), Ignacio Aguiló studies the sociocultural impact caused by the failure of the IMF economic measures in Argentina of 2001-2002. Through the lens of cultural production… Read More
Nicole Von Germeten, “Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico” (U California Press, 2018)
Nicole Von Germeten
Profit and Passion
Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 7, 2018 Pamela Fuentes

In Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico (University of California Press, 2018), Nicole Von Germeten explains the most important changes, in both ideas and practices, over three centuries of commercial sex in New Spain. By using literature and… Read More
Steven Hackel, “Junípero Serra: California’s Founding Father” (Hill and Wang, 2014)
Steven Hackel
Junípero Serra
California’s Founding Father
Hill and Wang, 2014

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network June 4, 2018 Krzysztof Odyniec

When Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015, he canonized the eighteenth-century Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra, rekindling the smoldering controversy that surrounds this historical figure—both a holy man with zeal for the Gospel and an imperial agent with little… Read More
Eden Medina, “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile” (MIT Press, 2011)
Eden Medina
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
MIT Press, 2011

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Systems and CyberneticsNew Books Network June 1, 2018 Tom Scholte

It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the history of cybernetics.  In the early 70’s, at the invitation of leftist president, Salvador Allende, the “father of management cybernetics”… Read More

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