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History of Mexico
Use this guide to find primary and secondary sources for the study of all periods of Mexican history.
Background Information
- Enciclopedia de MéxicoCall Number: F1204 .E5 200514-volume reference encyclopedia about Mexico. In Spanish.
- Enciclopedia Oceano de MéxicoCall Number: F1204 .E52 20024-volume encyclopedia of Mexican history, geography and culture. In Spanish.
- Diccionario Porrua de Historia, Biografía y Geografía de México byCall Number: F1204 .D56 1995Includes numerous short biographies of notable Mexican figures from all fields. Also includes entries for Mexican locations, historical events, and other terms. In Spanish. 4 volumes.
Selected Books
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The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the Western World, 16th-18th Centuries by Call Number: F1219.3 .C85 G7813 1993
Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico by Call Number: F1392.A1 M37 2008
Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America by Call Number: F1392.A1 R33 2009Available as an e-book and in print.
The Mexican Wars for Independence by Call Number: F1232 .H45 2009- National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, 1820-1847 byCall Number: HN120.Z9 S624 1996
The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City by Call Number: HV6815.M4 G37 2007
The Mexican Revolution by Call Number: F1234 .K65 1986The two volume definitive work on the Mexican Revolution.
U.S. - Mexico Border
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Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. Mexico Border by Call Number: F786 .S767 2011
Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897-1931 by Call Number: JV6798 .M6C37Publication Date: c1980
Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930 by Call Number: JV6453 .E88 2009
Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History by Call Number: F786 .C67 2004
Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600--1933 by Call Number: HD8081.M6 A63 2007
U.S.-Mexico Border Health: Issues for Regional and Migrant Populations by Call Number: RA446.5.M49 U8 1998
Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings by Call Number: KF4819 .B46 2012Also available as an e-book
Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: The Gangs and Cartels Wage War by Call Number: HV5840.M4 .C75 2013Downtown Library, Stacks
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the US-Mexico Borderlands by Call Number: HV5825 .M77 2013
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