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. ......
Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, and Class Identities in EarlyTwentieth-Century Mexico City
In Senorita Telefonista Susie S. Porter recounts the dynamic role of telephone operators in labor organizing in early twentieth-century Mexico City, taking us from switchboards to union halls and into the streets as working women fought for better wages and against sexual discrimination and harassment. The telephone operators' struggles reveal how ......
Mexican Necropolitics, Animal Deaths, and Blood Sports, 1870-1920
A deep dive into the history of bullfighting, hunting, and animal control in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexico. In Perilous Beasts Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepted animal death as a part of daily human life. Whether with casual indifference or with roaring cheers, the death of animals became a feature ......
The story of the iconic Fonda San Miguel from owner Tom Gilliland. Celebrate 50 years of Austin institution Fonda San Miguel with The Soul of Fonda San Miguel. Owner Tom Gilliland tells the story of this iconic restaurant from its start in 1975 through the decades, highlighting its dedication to the traditional regional foods of the cuisine, ......
The history of the Mexican Army's activity in the Texas Revolution is well documented but often hidden away. Many important primary sources have been lost or destroyed, but an impressive amount of period documentation has survived. And yet many of these handwritten, Spanish documents have been shelved in the back rooms of museums and libraries ......
Warfare and Military Culture in the Texas-Northeastern Mexico Borderlands,1686-1845
Armed Frontier is a deeply researched and yet accessible history of border skirmishes from mid-colonial times to the first Texas secession. The history of warfare and armed organization during the colonial period and early nineteenth century in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico remains largely untold. Previous studies either cover the ......
Warfare and Military Culture in the Texas-Northeastern Mexico Borderlands,1686-1845
Armed Frontier is a deeply researched and yet accessible history of border skirmishes from mid-colonial times to the first Texas secession. The history of warfare and armed organization during the colonial period and early nineteenth century in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico remains largely untold. Previous studies either cover the ......
In the mid-twentieth century, Mexico became a hub for global experiments in public health and social science. Best known as the birthplace of the Green Revolution, Mexico also pioneered the first large-scale effort to train community health workers to combine Western medical practices with Indigenous healing traditions. The Power to Harm and Heal ......
