Mexico Books


Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla ValleyHere in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley
Best Price: $54.97
Indigenous breadsellers riot over a Spanish monopoly scheme; Spanish authorities plan to remove...
Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial MexicoEmpire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico
Best Price: $21.99
Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners...
Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New MexicoGhost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico
Best Price: $16.86
This is an excellent ghost town book and essential for anyone hunting ghosts in New Mexico....
An Analytical Dictionary of NahuatlAn Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl
Best Price: $32.40
Any English-speaking student learning "Classical" Nahuatl needs this book; there is...
Indian Women of Early MexicoIndian Women of Early Mexico
This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan...


The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society (Civilization of the American Indian Series)The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Best Price: $8.00
In this book, John Monaghan explores the culture of the Mixtecs, today one of the largest Native...
Introduction to Classical NahuatlIntroduction to Classical Nahuatl
Best Price: $35.00
For many years, J. Richard Andrews?s Introduction to Classical Nahuatl has been the standard...
The Broken Spears: Aztec Account of the Conquest of MexicoThe Broken Spears: Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Best Price: $18.50
Broken Spears, The: The Aztec Account Of The Conquest Of Mexico by Leon-Portilla, Miguel
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of MexicoThe Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Best Price: $33.63
There are two sides to every story, and in history you usually only hear the victor's side....
Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San AntonioBlessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio
Best Price: $3.50
More than a million tourists visit religious landmarks in San Antonio, Texas, each year,...


Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943 (Engendering Latin America)Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943 (Engendering Latin America)
Best Price: $24.66
When Porfirio Díaz extended his modernization initiative in Mexico to the administration of...
False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Engendering Latin America)False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Engendering Latin America)
Best Price: $24.84
False Mystics provides a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico...
Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico (Second Edition)Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico (Second Edition)
Best Price: $7.48
Profilo Diaz was the dictator in charge before the Mexican Revolution and the structure of...
A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui IndianA Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian
Best Price: $20.76
I gave 4/5 stars only because the book had underlines and highlighting and the book was marked...
Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer WarScarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer War

The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850
Best Price: $26.88
This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of...
The Burden of Time: Photographs from the Highlands of ChiapasThe Burden of Time: Photographs from the Highlands of Chiapas
Best Price: $198.48
This book is great. The pictures are magical. I highly recomend it to anyone who has been to and...
Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacan, 1920-1935Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacan, 1920-1935
Best Price: $24.39
Becoming Campesinos argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and...
Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial MexicoBrides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico
Best Price: $49.89
For all those interested in colonial Mexico, the history of women and the religious life of...
A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, MexicoA Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico
Best Price: $20.78
A Pueblo Divided tells the story of the violent privatization of communal land in Papantla, a...

Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish NounMadre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
Best Price: $3.75
I pinched a review from the highly regarded Economist site (see below) which highlights excerpts...
The Life and Times of MexicoThe Life and Times of Mexico
Best Price: $12.00
Shorris's life of Mexico is a huge 700-plus-page collective biography. It seems to grow...
Heinemann Our World: Topic Starter Pack - Aztecs Key Stage 2Heinemann Our World: Topic Starter Pack - Aztecs Key Stage 2
This starter pack contains a teacher's guide, six pupil books and a poster pack. It part of...
Daily Life of the Aztecs (Native American)Daily Life of the Aztecs (Native American)
Best Price: $22.95
Vivid account of a profoundly religious warrior society ? from its most primitive days to the...
The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places)The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Best Price: $17.00
i got this thinking it was have picture, i was goign to use it as a reference for my tattoos i...

Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, Fifth EditionMexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, Fifth Edition
Best Price: $5.00
This book makes it clear that the bulk of Mexican history (and Central America) has NOTHING at...
The Aztecs (Third Edition)  (Ancient Peoples and Places)The Aztecs (Third Edition) (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Best Price: $12.98
Now in a revised and updated third edition, The Aztecs is an in-depth history of this legendary...
Beyond the Codices: The Nahua View of Colonial Mexico (UCLA Latin American studies series)Beyond the Codices: The Nahua View of Colonial Mexico (UCLA Latin American studies series)A Courtship after Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational FamiliesA Courtship after Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families
Best Price: $18.99
From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about...
Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juárez since 1848Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juárez since 1848
Best Price: $25.00
Border Boom Town traces the social and economic evolution of Ciudad Juárez, the largest...

Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier ExpeditionsSoldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions
Best Price: $16.95
This is a history book with a bunch of rambling editorial from the author that made me sick. The...
The City of Mexico in the Age of DíazThe City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz
Best Price: $15.00
I prefer reading history books to novels and my favorite history books are often written in...
The Maya of Guatemala : Life and DressThe Maya of Guatemala : Life and Dress
Best Price: $319.30
As the curator of artemaya has pointed out this is the book to have. I concurr with everything...
Survivors in MexicoSurvivors in Mexico
Best Price: $2.00
Survivors is a delightful read full of incisive observations made by a brilliant woman. It is...
Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The Lamar Series in Western History)Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Best Price: $19.29
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies In the...

The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.s.-mexico DivideThe Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.s.-mexico Divide
The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as...
The Evolution of Urban SocietyThe Evolution of Urban Society
Best Price: $24.69
The Evolution of Urban Society is concerned with the presentation and analysis of regularities...
The Olmecs: The Oldest Civilization in MexicoThe Olmecs: The Oldest Civilization in Mexico
Best Price: $51.98
In the past few years I have concentrated my studies on ancient civilizations of the Old World,...
A Brief History of New MexicoA Brief History of New Mexico
Best Price: $4.00
In the pages of this book is the bare bones history of New Mexico. If you only read one New...
Household and Community in the Mesoamerican PastHousehold and Community in the Mesoamerican Past
Best Price: $36.10

Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940
Best Price: $6.78
I recently took a look at this book hoping it would contain some useful information for a...
Red White Blue and God Bless You: A Portrait of Northern New MexicoRed White Blue and God Bless You: A Portrait of Northern New Mexico
Best Price: $179.74
Anyone who has spent time in these mountain communities and has seen his work, knows that Alex...
The Centuries of Santa FeThe Centuries of Santa Fe
Best Price: $14.95
Tata: A Voice from the Rio PuercoTata: A Voice from the Rio Puerco
Best Price: $5.95
Here is a another in Nasario Garcia's series of books that capture the last verbal remnants...
Unknown Island: Seri Indians, Europeans, and San Esteban Island in the Gulf of CaliforniaUnknown Island: Seri Indians, Europeans, and San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California
This ethnohistory asks how and why a reclusive band of Seri Indians inhabiting San Esteban...

The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Diálogos Series)The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Diálogos Series)
This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in...
Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological PerspectiveYaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective
Best Price: $34.99
The "caste war" that took place in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico from 1847...
Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-PresentTools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present
Best Price: $25.00
The history of Casa Boker, one of the first department stores in Mexico City, and its German...
A History of ChileA History of Chile
Best Price: $50.00
Chile, one of the smallest, is at the same time one of the most progressive of the South...
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from...

Soldiers of the Virgin: The Moral Economy of a Colonial Maya RebellionSoldiers of the Virgin: The Moral Economy of a Colonial Maya Rebellion
Best Price: $14.00
In the early summer of 1712, a young Maya woman from the village of Cancuc in southern Mexico...
Breaking Into the Current: Boatwomen of the Grand CanyonBreaking Into the Current: Boatwomen of the Grand Canyon
Best Price: $12.69
In 1973, Marilyn Sayre gave up her job as a computer programmer and became the first woman in...
Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico BorderLives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Straddling an international border, the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora,...
Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial MexicoDangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico
Best Price: $21.21
Dangerous Speech is the first systematic treatment of blasphemous speech in colonial Mexico....
Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821 (Southwest Center Series)Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821 (Southwest Center Series)
Best Price: $60.18
I bought this for my artist husband. He loves to find older pictures of missions before they...

Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Best Price: $45.00
Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María Magdalena, an indigenous noblewoman living in one of only...
Mexican Masculinities (Cultural Studies of the Americas)Mexican Masculinities (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
Best Price: $59.97
The first of its kind and a powerful challenge to customary views of gender and sexuality in the...
Mexican Masculinities (Cultural Studies of the Americas)Mexican Masculinities (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
Best Price: $15.00
Who says the academic discipline known as "queer theory" can't be applied to...
Her Kind of ManHer Kind of Man
Best Price: $2.56
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in MexicoBad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
Best Price: $19.93
Cultural studies have opened new horizons to researchers in the Humanities, but not every person...

The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and DemocracyThe Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy
Best Price: $65.66
In 1994 the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of...
Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border (American Encounters/Global Interactions)Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Best Price: $21.06
Catarino Garza?s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the...
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, MexicoVisions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
Best Price: $15.58
Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in...
The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920?1940The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920?1940
Best Price: $94.95
When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the...
The Search for the Codex CardonaThe Search for the Codex Cardona
Best Price: $14.87
Professor Bauer's book is one of the most fascinating historical works I've read...

The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico (American Encounters/Global Interactions)The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Best Price: $21.05
In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of...
The Aztecs: Life in Tenochtitlan (Life in Ancient Civilizations)The Aztecs: Life in Tenochtitlan (Life in Ancient Civilizations)
Best Price: $25.13
If you were an Aztec child living in ancient Tenochtitlan, you would be expected to be...
Cuban Studies 39 (Pittsburgh Cuban Studies) (v. 39)Cuban Studies 39 (Pittsburgh Cuban Studies) (v. 39)
Best Price: $22.78
Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes...
American Catholics And the Mexican Revolution, 1924-1936American Catholics And the Mexican Revolution, 1924-1936
Best Price: $43.45
"Matthew Redinger makes a significant contribution to our understanding of U.S.?Mexican...
The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income MexicoThe Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico
Best Price: $55.00
Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps...

Mexican Politics: The Containment of ConflictMexican Politics: The Containment of Conflict
Best Price: $106.95
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Needler's well-known text brings his...
Skywatchers : A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of  Ancient MexicoSkywatchers : A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
Best Price: $25.52
This is one of my favorite books. I am a writer and happened to stumble onto this amazing book...
Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a CivilizationMexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
Best Price: $19.00
México Profundo is a must-read for anyone attempting to understand the complexities...
Texas and Northeastern Mexico,1630-1690Texas and Northeastern Mexico,1630-1690
Best Price: $17.10
For anyone interested on Northeast Mexico and Texas history, this book is a must read!! Great...
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Texas Pan American Series)Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Texas Pan American Series)
Best Price: $38.79
When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort...

Dreamland: The Way Out of JuarezDreamland: The Way Out of Juarez
Best Price: $13.36
This book is a GREAT read. The art work is MY kind of drawing. I was mesmerized .... UNTIL the...
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence (Translations from Latin America)Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence (Translations from Latin America)
In Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano's Memoria...
Timeless Mexico: The Photographs of Hugo Brehme (Southwestern & Mexican Photography Series)Timeless Mexico: The Photographs of Hugo Brehme (Southwestern & Mexican Photography Series)
Best Price: $38.76
Hugo Brehme created an idyllic vision of Mexico that influenced photography, film, and...
A Brief History of New MexicoA Brief History of New Mexico
Best Price: $4.00
In the pages of this book is the bare bones history of New Mexico. If you only read one New...
Household and Community in the Mesoamerican PastHousehold and Community in the Mesoamerican Past
Best Price: $36.10

Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940
Best Price: $6.78
I recently took a look at this book hoping it would contain some useful information for a...
Red White Blue and God Bless You: A Portrait of Northern New MexicoRed White Blue and God Bless You: A Portrait of Northern New Mexico
Best Price: $179.74
Anyone who has spent time in these mountain communities and has seen his work, knows that Alex...
The Centuries of Santa FeThe Centuries of Santa Fe
Best Price: $14.95
Tata: A Voice from the Rio PuercoTata: A Voice from the Rio Puerco
Best Price: $5.95
Here is a another in Nasario Garcia's series of books that capture the last verbal remnants...
Unknown Island: Seri Indians, Europeans, and San Esteban Island in the Gulf of CaliforniaUnknown Island: Seri Indians, Europeans, and San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California
This ethnohistory asks how and why a reclusive band of Seri Indians inhabiting San Esteban...

The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Diálogos Series)The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Diálogos Series)
This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in...
Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological PerspectiveYaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective
Best Price: $34.99
The "caste war" that took place in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico from 1847...
Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-PresentTools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present
Best Price: $25.00
The history of Casa Boker, one of the first department stores in Mexico City, and its German...
Cuestion entre México y GuatemalaCuestion entre México y Guatemala
Best Price: $14.41
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...
Cinco de Mayo: What Is Everybody Celebrating?Cinco de Mayo: What Is Everybody Celebrating?
Best Price: $29.14

Awesome Ancient Ancestors!: Mound Builders, Maya, and More (America's Horrible Histories)Awesome Ancient Ancestors!: Mound Builders, Maya, and More (America's Horrible Histories)
The second volume in this zany history series explores the ancient peoples and civilizations...
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost CivilizationMaya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
Best Price: $2.20
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...
A Vagabond in MexicoA Vagabond in Mexico
Best Price: $20.99
First of all, a comment to the reviewer who wrote a "book report" -- A Vagabond In...
The Divine Charter: Constitutionalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)The Divine Charter: Constitutionalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
Best Price: $30.95
Although Mexico began its national life in the 1821 as one of the most liberal democracies in...
All the Men in the Sea: The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in HistoryAll the Men in the Sea: The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in History
Best Price: $6.24
This book takes place in 1995 in the gulf of mexico on the DLB-269 which derrick lay barge which...

Mexico: An Illustrated History (Illustrated Histories (Hippocrene))Mexico: An Illustrated History (Illustrated Histories (Hippocrene))
Best Price: $7.29
I really liked reading this book because it's a quick read, and I'd recommend it to...
Mexican Rebel: Pascual Orozco & the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915Mexican Rebel: Pascual Orozco & the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Hispanics of Achievement)Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Hispanics of Achievement)
Best Price: $47.99
This book is just what you need to find useful imformation on Santa Anna. When I did my project...
  
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