Criminal Trials, Notorious Homicides, and Public Opinion in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Mexico is a country beset by violence and insecurity, with 98 percent of violent crimes unsolved and 94 percent of crimes unpunished. These staggering statistics illustrate the critical need to understand the history of Mexico's penal law and justice system, from its evolution and development to its public image and effects on Mexican society. ......
Criminal Trials, Notorious Homicides, and Public Opinion in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Mexico is a country beset by violence and insecurity, with 98 percent of violent crimes unsolved and 94 percent of crimes unpunished. These staggering statistics illustrate the critical need to understand the history of Mexico's penal law and justice system, from its evolution and development to its public image and effects on Mexican society. ......
In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics, Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women. A financial manager, businesswoman, and reformer, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was one of the wealthiest and most influential women of the era and a philanthropist, almost without rival, ......
Essays on Ethnohistory, Ethnology, and Native American Studies
Raymond D. Fogelson was a luminary theoretician in the interdisciplinary field of ethnohistory who advocated for Indigenous-centered theory and ethnographic writing in the field of Cherokee studies and ethnohistory. Fogelson's unique methodology was to look for institutions that Cherokees and Native peoples themselves considered traditional and to ......
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in 2020 reignited a passionate nationwide debate over Confederate memorials and flags as symbols of white supremacy in our public landscape. Controversies about Confederate monuments, however, have overshadowed more consequential battles over Civil War memory taking place in ......
Born to Explore chronicles the multifaceted adventures of NASA’s John Casani, who took us to the ends of the solar system but was largely overshadowed by astronauts and space shuttles. Casani discusses his pivotal career, private life, and the stories which made him a legend.
Belonging and Urban Community in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1939-1947
In the decades following the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Guadalajara faced immense demographic and economic transformation, stunning both longtime residents and new arrivals. The city's population nearly tripled from 1920 to 1950, and the resultant population boom strained government resources and challenged living standards for all. In Conflict ......
Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Peru sought to advance its national progress through the development of infrastructure, especially through the economic and social potential of hydroelectricity. However, decades of modernization efforts by the Peruvian state failed to deliver national social integration or political stability. In High ......
An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, explorers, and settlers from 1804, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their voyage of discovery, to 1864, when the U.S. Army attacked ......
