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The Rural State
How rural political organization intersects with the environment in Peru over the course of nearly a full century.
Egypt, Old and New
A work of history, culture, politics, economics, packed with period photographs and period insights.
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing
This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.
Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913
This volume traces the rich social, cultural, economic and political history of the Greeks during National Period up till the military coup of 1909.
To Rise in Darkness
To Rise in Darkness offers a new perspective on a defining moment in modern Central American history. In January 1932 thousands of indigenous and ladino (non-Indian) rural laborers, provoked by electoral fraud and the repression of strikes, rose up and took control of several municipalities in central and western El Salvador. Within days the military and civilian militias retook the towns and executed thousands of people, most of whom were indigenous. This event, known as la Matanza (the massacre), has received relatively little scholarly attention. In To Rise in Darkness, Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago investigate memories of the massacre and its long-term cultural and politic...
Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783–1914
The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and trade. Using specific case studies, de Goey demonstrates the key role played by consuls in the rise of the global economy.
Death Is All Around Us
Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of fifty-two (London), one out of forty-four (Paris), and one out of thirty-five (Madrid). It is not an exaggeration to maintain that each day dozens of bodies could be found scattered throughout the streets of Mexico City, making the capital city one of the most unsanitary places in the Western Hemisphere. In light of such startling scenes, in Death Is All around Us Jonathan M. Weber examines how Mexican...
A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico
This bibliography is a guide to the literature on Mexican flowering plants, beginning with the days of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.
