Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico explores elite notions of crime and criminality from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In Mexico these notions represented contested areas of the social terrain, places where generalized ideas about criminality transcended the individual criminal act to intersect with larger issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality. It was at this intersection that modern Mexican society bared its soul. Attitudes toward race amalgamation and indios, lower-class lifestyles and leperos, women and sexual deviance, all influenced perceptions of...
Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico explores elite notions of crime and criminality from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In Mexi...
Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. Chronologically organized chapters facilitate the book s assimilation into most course syllabi. Its selection of documents thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history land and labor, indigenous people, religion, and state formation while also incorporating recent advances in scholarly research on the frontier, urban life, popular culture, race and ethnicity, and gender. Student-friendly pedagogical features include contextual...
Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal presen...
Robert Buffington Carlos A. Aguirre Colin M. MacLachlan
The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, "Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America" reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory.
The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the divine rights of absolutist monarchs, liberal rights of man, positivism, and social Darwinism received a sympathetic, even enthusiastic, endorsement from policy...
The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, "Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America" reconstructs the way in which diffe...
Crime has played a complicated role in the history of human social relations. Public narratives about murders, insanity, kidnappings, assassinations, and infanticide attempt to make sense of the social, economic, and cultural realities of ordinary people at different periods in history. Such stories also shape the ways historians write about society and offer valuable insight into aspects of life that more conventional accounts have neglected, misunderstood, or ignored altogether.
This edited volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of...
Crime has played a complicated role in the history of human social relations. Public narratives about murders, insanity, kidnappings, assassination...
