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European Studies July 3, 2020

Collision of Worlds

A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain

David M. Carballo

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Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens …
Latino Studies June 17, 2020

Marriage after Migration

An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico

Nora Haenn

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Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2019) tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky …
American Studies June 21, 2019

Liminal Sovereignty

Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture

Rebecca Janzen

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Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites …
Latin American Studies February 21, 2019

The Crossroads of Globalization

A Latin American View

Alfredo Toro Hardy

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The Crossroads of Globalization: A Latin American View (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2019) explores the complex interaction of several forces shaping the current world economic situation. Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes …
European Studies February 1, 2019

Sins Against Nature

Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

Zeb Tortorici

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In Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (Duke University Press, 2018), Zeb Tortorici analyzes a vast corpus of documents in order to understand how sex acts …
Latin American Studies January 10, 2019

Strength through Peace

How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World Can Learn from a Tiny Tropical Nation

Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash

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Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department …
Latin American Studies June 19, 2018

The Darkening Nation

Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina

Ignacio Aguiló

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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 …
Latin American Studies June 7, 2018

Profit and Passion

Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico

Nicole Von Germeten

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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 …
Literary Studies April 27, 2018

A History of Infamy

Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico

Pablo Piccato

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A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico (University of California Press, 2017) explores the definitive changes that the justice system as well as criminal ideas and practices …
Literary Studies March 9, 2018

Mexico's Nobodies

The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women

Christine Arce

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In Mexico's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women (SUNY Press, 2017), Christine Arce rightfully stresses that these two figures have greatly influenced Mexico's national identity, arts …
Latino Studies January 22, 2018

Death in the City

Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico

Kathryn A. Sloan

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In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explores ideas and discourses surrounding the …
Literary Studies January 10, 2018

The National Body in Mexican Literature

Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control

Rebecca Janzen

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In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of …