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Intoxicated Identities
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 32.95With methods and concepts derived from an extraordinary range of disciplines, Mitchell explains how Mexican culture reinforces heavy drinking. more...
Don't Disturb the Neighbors
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 50.95Don't Disturb the Neighbors provides a comprehensive review and analysis of US Mexican relations over the past two decades - from the days of the Central American crisis of the Reagan administration to the 1995 Mexican Peso Crisis. more...
The King's Living Image in Colonial Mexico
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 39.95To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of viceregal power and its relation to ideas of kingship. Examining... more...
Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95The Quest for Tejano Identity was written as a study of Mexican American consciousness, and a history of the assumptions and intellectual responses of Mexican Americans in south Texas. The work uses history to inquire why different ethnic groups think, act and speak as they do as they encounter American society. more...
Deference and Defiance in Monterrey
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 29.00Deference and Defiance explores how both workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution. Snodgrass's narrative covers a sixty-year period that begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin-America's preeminent industrial cities and home to Mexico's most powerful business group. more...
Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. more...
Building the Fourth Estate
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media over the last twenty-five years, this book is the most richly detailed account available of the role of the media in democratization, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between changes in the press and changes in the political system. more...
Mexico?s Mandarins
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite?their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often overlooked role mentoring plays in their rise to the top.... more...
A Courtship after Marriage
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in rural Mexico and among Mexicans in Atlanta. more...









