Joseph, Gilbert M.

Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North and a coeditor of The Mexico Reader; Fragments of a Golden Age; Crime and Punishment in Latin America; Close Encounters of Empire; and Everyday Forms of State Formation, all also published by Duke University Press. Daniela Spenser is Senior Research Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social in Mexico City. She is the author of The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Sov...