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Mexico

16 posts

When Documents are More than Just Words

  • Corinna Zeltsman
  • 5 minute read
Opening the worn, soft-bound leather cover of a hefty volume of notarial documents produced in nineteenth-century Mexico City, I hoped…
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Mexico’s Black Market, 1692-1903

  • Eric Frith
  • 11 shares
  • 17 minute read
A review of Black Market City: The Baratillo Marketplace and the Challenge of Governance in Mexico City, 1692-1903, by Andrew…
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Urban Slavery in Colonial Puebla (Mexico)

  • Norah Linda Andrews
  • 6 minute read
A review of Urban Slavery in Colonial Puebla de los Ángeles, 1536-1708, by Pablo Sierra. This dissertation is an excellent…
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Comics, Telenovelas, and Mexican History

  • Vanessa Freije
  • 20 shares
  • 5 minute read
A review of Entertaining Education: Teaching National History in Mexican State-Sponsored Comic Books and Telenovelas, 1963-1996, by Melanie Huska. “Entertaining…
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Radio, Revolution & the Mexican State

  • Luis E. Coronado Guel
  • 9 shares
  • 5 minute read
A review of Wireless: Radio, Revolution, and the Mexican State, 1897-1938, by J. Justin Castro. In Mexican history, the transitional…
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Chinese Immigrants in Mexico 1931-71

  • Andre Deckrow
  • 7 minute read
A review of We Won’t Be Bullied Anymore: Chinese-Mexican Relations and the Chinese Community in Mexico, 1931-1971, by Fredy González.…
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Mexico-US Migration 1965-86

  • Julio Capó
  • 10 minute read
A review of Undocumented Lives: A History of Mexico-U.S. Migration from 1965 to 1986, by Ana Raquel Minian Andjel.  Simply…
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Culture of Mental Health in Oaxaca

  • Jethro Hernandez-Berrones
  • 2 shares
  • 6 minute read
A review of The Culture of Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca, by Whitney L. Duncan. The globalization of a…
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Our Lady of Remedios: Devotion, Aesthetics, Society

  • Cristina Cruz Gonzalez
  • 10 shares
  • 7 minute read
A review of Fervent Faith. Devotion, Aesthetics, and Society in the Cult of Our Lady of Remedios (Mexico, 1520-1811), by…
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Assisted Reproduction in Mexico

  • Elizabeth Reddy
  • 4 minute read
A review of The Sociocultural Aspects of Assisted Reproduction in Mexico by Sandra P. González-Santos. Reproduction is just as political…
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