Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The last narco	Malcolm Beith	A courageous young journalist takes his readers deep inside the hunt for the most powerful, feared, and charismatic drug lord in the world---Mexico's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman---and tells the full st…	OL16177062W
El Narco	Ioan Grillo	"The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bom…	OL16495247W
Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border	Kathleen A. Staudt,Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso	"At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global ma…	OL16596078W
Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz	Steven B. Bunker	"This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewel…	OL16715234W
Codex Chimalpahin	Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin	"Essential two-volume translations of recently discovered examples of Chimalpahin's work held by the Bible Society Library at Cambridge Univ., given in parallel with transcriptions of Nahuatl texts. …	OL1737594W
Every woman is a world	Gayle Walker,Kiki Suárez	Compelling interviews with 28 women between the ages of 60 and 108, who describe the changes they've witnessed in the lifeways of Chiapas on the Mexico-Guatemala border.	OL18716092W
La distancia entre nosotros	Reyna Grande	"Cuando el padre de Reyna Grande deja a su esposa y sus tres hijos atrás en un pueblo de México para hacer el peligroso viaje a través de la frontera a los Estados Unidos, promete que pronto regresar…	OL19966866W
Historia del narcotráfico en México	Guillermo Valdés Castellanos	"El problema del narcotráfico en México ha alcanzado niveles insospechados debido a los acuerdos siniestros entre los líderes de los cárteles y los cuerpos policiacos, por la complicidad con algunos …	OL19975791W
Con una granada en la boca	Javier Valdez	"Implacable, profundamente humano, sin reparos en la indagación periodística, Javier Valdez Cárdenas es uno de los periodistas sobre narcotráfico más respetados en México. En Con una granada en la bo…	OL20003313W
Defiant braceros	Mireya Loza	"In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the history of the Bracero Program (1942-1964), the binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of male …	OL20039972W
Liberalismo social y reforma del Estado	René Villarreal	"Builds ideal model of social liberalism by removing excesses of socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, and merging their market and social aspects. Theory combines Locke's idea of limitations of po…	OL2121827W
Neoliberalism, transnationalization, and rural poverty	John Gledhill	"An analysis of agrarian reform policies and their impact on the rural poor during the Salinas administration (1988-94). Argues that neoliberal policies must be analyzed through the lens of class-bas…	OL2919653W
Good intentions, bad outcomes	Santiago Levy	"Argues that incoherent social programs significantly contribute to poverty and little growth. Proposes converting the existing social security system into universal social entitlements. Advocates el…	OL3832622W
Marobavi	Roger C. Owen	ix, 53p. 27cm	OL7244102W
Saltillo, 1770-1810	Leslie Scott Offutt	"At the end of the eighteenth century, the community of Saltillo in north-eastern Mexico was a thriving hub of commerce. Over the previous hundred years its population had doubled to 11,000, and the …	OL8530591W
Revolution in the Street	Andrew Grant Wood	"This new book examines the social protests of popular groups in urban Mexico during and after the revolution and also shows how the revolution inspired women to become activists in these movements."…	OL8626562W