During the twentieth century, many Americans expressed concerns about the security surrounding the U.S.-Mexican border due to the lack of progress in achieving meaningful and effective immigration regulation and an inability to control growing drug trafficking. Despite publicly and privately striving for cooperation on these issues, Mexican and ......
Tracing the historical development of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic period to the present, the Historical Dictionary of Mexico, Third Edition, is an excellent resource for students, teachers, researchers, and the general public. This reference work includes a detailed chronology, an introduction surveying the country's history, and an extensive ......
In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization. ......
New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage examines foreign immigration to Mexico as and the significance of Mexican transnationalism and pluriculturalism. Contributors explore the roles of entrepreneurs, consuls, doctors, railroad workers, cowboys, divas, puppeteers, missionaries, and women soccer players.
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In ......
In this engaging work, 2002 Bolton-Jonhson Prize Winner Eric Van Young captures the crucial hundred years of Mexico's remarkable transition from a Spanish colony to a modernized, independent nation.
Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
Caritina Pina Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernandez tells the story of how Pina and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor ......
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In ......
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to ......