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Price: $7.95
Publisher: Northland Pub: June 1979
Seller ID: 345493
ISBN: 0873584430
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Edwin Williamson
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1993
Seller ID: 310890
ISBN: 0140125590
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Enrique Krauze
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Harper Perennial: July 1998
Seller ID: 355528
ISBN: 0060929170
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Acceptable
The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940,...
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By: Grillo, Ioan
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Press: November 2012
Seller ID: 395446
ISBN: 1608194019
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.
"Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com
The world has watched, stunned, 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 bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it part of a worldw...
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By: Hernan Cortes
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Grossman Publishers: January 1971
Seller ID: 333311
ISBN: B000J3IRQ2
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Hogan, Andrew,Century, Douglas
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: February 2019
Seller ID: 395450
ISBN: 0062663100
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Acceptable
Every generation has a larger-than-life criminal: Jesse James, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Al Capone, John Gotti, Pablo Escobar. But each of these notorious lawbreakers had a "white hat" in pursuit: Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett, Eliot Ness, Steve Murphy. For notorious drug lord Joaqu n Archivaldo Guzm n-Loera--El Chapo--that lawman is former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Andrew Hogan.
In 2006, fresh out of the D.E.A. Academy, Hogan heads west to Arizona where he immediately plunges into a series of gripping undercover adventures, all unknowingly placing him on the trail...
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By: James A Wood
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: February 2009
Seller ID: 272398
ISBN: 074255645X
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: James A Wood
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: February 2009
Seller ID: 349768
ISBN: 074255645X
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Jean De Lery
Price: $5.95
Publisher: University of California Press: March 1993
Seller ID: 349771
ISBN: 0520082745
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Acceptable
Price: $5.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2011
Seller ID: 315873
ISBN: 0393935582
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Acceptable
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr: June 2006
Seller ID: 146159
ISBN: 1592287603
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - VeryGood
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1978
Seller ID: 396952
ISBN: 0671244094
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Moritz Thomsen
Price: $8.95
Publisher: Graywolf Press: February 1990
Seller ID: 375104
ISBN: 1555971245
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
By: Oscar Martinez
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Verso: April 2017
Seller ID: 319595
ISBN: 1784781711
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Acceptable
By: Peter H. Smith
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: December 2007
Seller ID: 315883
ISBN: 0195320484
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Peter Winn
Price: $7.95
Publisher: University of California Press: January 2006
Seller ID: 230549
ISBN: 0520245016
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
By: Pierre Clastres
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Zone Books: December 2000
Seller ID: 297047
ISBN: 0942299787
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - LikeNew
The late French anthropologist Pierre Clastres describes in novelistic detail his encounter with a now vanished Paraguayan tribe.
Pierre Clastres (1934-1979) was one of the most respected political anthropologists of our time. Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of his first fieldwork in the early 1960s--an encounter with a small, unique, and now vanished Paraguayan tribe. From "Birth" to "The End," Clastres follows the Guayakis in their everyday lives, determined to record every detail of their history, ritual, myths, and culture in order to answer the many q...
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By: Rebecca West, Bernard Schweizer
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Yale University Press: April 2003
Seller ID: 158973
ISBN: 0300098863
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - VeryGood
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Five Flower Pr: July 1993
Seller ID: 307329
ISBN: 096326611X
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Robert L. Muckley,Adela Martinez-Santiago
Price: $5.95
Publisher: McGraw-Hill: June 1999
Seller ID: 380981
ISBN: 0844204021
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Acceptable