UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: In the shadow of the eagles: Sonora and the transformation of the border during the Porfiriato Author: Tinker Salas, Miguel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latin American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: In the Shadow of the Eagles considers the historical roots of Mexican border society. The Mexican northwest, and Sonora in particular, has often captured the public's imagination; it has been portrayed as a region of untold mineral wealth, insurgent Apaches and Yaquis, self-reliant cowboys, miners, . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Zapata lives!: histories and cultural politics in southern Mexico Author: Stephen, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Anthropology \| Sociology \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen doc . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexico's mandarins: crafting a power elite for the twenty-first century Author: Camp, Roderic Ai Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This 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 over . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Translating property: the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 Author: Montoya, María E 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Law \| Latino Studies \| California and the West \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Author: Hart, John M. (John Mason) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| United States History \| American Studies \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Spanish redemption: heritage, power, and loss on New Mexico's upper Rio Grande Author: Montgomery, Charles H 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentie . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The romance of democracy: compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico Author: Gutmann, Matthew C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latino Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book pro . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexico at the world's fairs: crafting a modern nation Author: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair - whe . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico/ Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture \| Architectural History Publisher's Description: Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico - made of earth, of stone, of wood - are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men: living in urban Mexico Author: Napolitano, Valentina Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Sociology \| Medical Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Valentina 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 neighborho . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Building the fourth estate: democratization and the rise of a free press in Mexico Author: Lawson, Chappell H 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Latin American Studies \| Media Studies Publisher's Description: Based 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 polit . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasant and nation: the making of postcolonial Mexico and Peru Author: Mallon, Florencia E 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Anthropology \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political histo . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The children of NAFTA: labor wars on the U.S./Mexico border Author: Bacon, David 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Labor Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Immigration \| Politics \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Fr . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Oil and revolution in Mexico Author: Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Anyone contemplating the consequences of foreign investment in Latin America will profit from reading this book. As Jonathan Brown shows, the dynamic growth of the Mexican oil industry resulted from both the domination of foreign capital and Mexico's own economic restructuring, conditions similar to . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national space Author: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Refried Elvis: the rise of the Mexican counterculture Author: Zolov, Eric Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Popular Culture \| Chicano Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Contemporary Music Publisher's Description: This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Geography \| Ecology \| Botany Publisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Buñuel and Mexico: the crisis of national cinema Author: Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this boo . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Setting the Virgin on fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution Author: Becker, Marjorie 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History \| Anthropology \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America Author: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more] Similar Items