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Oh Mexico!
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2011; US$ 16.95After graduating college, Lucy Neville struggled to decide whether to get a job or elude the realities of life after graduation. She chose the latter: packing up and moving to Mexico City. Lucy quickly found a job teaching English as a second language and set about finding a place to live. Enter Octavio, a handsome local with a room to rent. Complications... more...
Daily Life in Colonial Latin America
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 50.00This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America?the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, and the Africans brought over as slaves. more...
The Rough Guide to Central America On A Budget
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 26.99The definitive handbook for budget travellers to the region, the Rough Guide covers all seven Central American countries in depth. Whether you want to go scuba-diving in crystal-clear marine reserves, kick back in unspoilt colonial hill towns, trek through the jungle to discover incredible Mayan ruins, or laze on picture-postcard Caribbean beaches,... more...
The Penguin History of Latin America
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableTraces 500 years of history from the time of Columbus and the Spanish Conquest to the present day. Shows how the turbulent modernization which started in the eighteenth century continued into the twentieth century. more...
The Rough Guide to Cancun and the Yucatan
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 19.99The Rough Guide to Cancun & the Yucatán is the ultimate guide to Mexico's premier tourist destination, including detailed coverage of Cancún, Cozumel, Tulum, the Riviera Maya and Costa Maya, as well as in-depth descriptions of all the accessible Maya sites, from world-famous Chichén Itzá and Palenque to fabulous, barely known destinations like Calakmul... more...
The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform
NYU Press 1994; US$ 75.00Tracing the evolution of Atlantic City from a miserable hamlet of fishermen's huts in 1854 to the nation's premier seaside resort in 1910, The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform chronicles a bizarre political conflict that reaches to the very heart of Progressivism. Operating outside of the traditional constraints of family, church, and... more...
The New Black Politician
NYU Press 2012; US$ 35.00In the past five years, a vanguard of young, affluent black leadership has emerged, often clashing with older generations of black leadership for power. The 2002 Newark mayoral race, which featured a contentious battle between the young black challenger Cory Booker and the more established black incumbent Sharpe James, was one of a series of contests... more...
Culture Works
NYU Press 2012; US$ 70.00Culture Works addresses and critiques an important dimension of the "work of culture", an argument made by enthusiasts of creative economies that culture contributes to the GDP, employment, social cohesion, and other forms of neoliberal development. While culture does make important contributions to national and urban economies, the incentives... more...
Chinese Mexicans
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 39.95At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties--and families--these Mexicans and Chinese created led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican. During the tumult of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, however, anti-Chinese sentiment... more...
Journals of Sieges Carried On by The Army under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, during the Years 1811 to 1814 - Volume II
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 23.49The classic, immensely detailed description of the many sieges of the long drawn-out war that was Britains major land contribution to the defeat of Napoleon. Sir John Jones was an officer of the Royal Engineers with Wellington in Portugal and Spain and intimately connected with the operations he describes so exactly. Sir John originally wrote... more...









