Ranked #1
Alex Hidalgo, "Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Alex Hidalgo, "Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2019)
There is far more to a map than meets the eye. Such is the case in historian Alex Hidalgo’s Trail of Footprints: A Histo... Read more
4 Mar 2020
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49mins
Ranked #2
Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia.... Read more
9 Jul 2019
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #3
Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade" (U Penn Press, 2019)
Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade" (U Penn Press, 2019)
In Benjamin Breen's The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), ... Read more
26 Dec 2019
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1hr 1min
Ranked #4
Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)
Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)
A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico (University of California Press, 2017) explores the definitive ... Read more
27 Apr 2018
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #5
Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
When former Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas traveled to Havana in 1959 to celebrate the triumph of the Cuban Revolutio... Read more
7 Feb 2016
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56mins
Ranked #6
Christina Proenza-Coles, "American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
Christina Proenza-Coles, "American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
Christina Proenza-Coles' new book American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World ... Read more
11 Jun 2019
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54mins
Ranked #7
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, “Mexico’s Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010” (University of Colorado Press, 2010)
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, “Mexico’s Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010” (University of Colorado Press, 2010)
In my work with pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexican pictorial texts, I often wish I could talk with the people who authore... Read more
17 Oct 2011
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #8
Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs" (U California Press, 2018)
Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs" (U California Press, 2018)
Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico: though prohibited by law, its use remains permissible i... Read more
17 Jan 2019
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59mins
Ranked #9
Julie M. Weise, “Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910” (UNC Press, 2015)
Julie M. Weise, “Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910” (UNC Press, 2015)
Julie M. Weise‘s new book Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910 (UNC Press, 2015) is the first book t... Read more
17 Dec 2015
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #10
Charles F. Walker, “The Tupac Amaru Rebellion” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Charles F. Walker, “The Tupac Amaru Rebellion” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Charles F. Walker‘s book The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (Harvard University Press, 2014) charts the rise, fall, and legacy of... Read more
23 Dec 2014
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39mins
Ranked #11
Lilian Calles Barger, “The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Lilian Calles Barger, “The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology” (Oxford UP, 2018)
A searching and richly textured history of the affinities and common origins of Latin American and North American libera... Read more
7 Nov 2018
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56mins
Ranked #12
Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globalization. A Latin American View" (World Scientific Publishing. 2019)
Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globalization. A Latin American View" (World Scientific Publishing. 2019)
The Crossroads of Globalization. A Latin American View (World Scientific Publishing Co. 2019) explores the complex inter... Read more
21 Feb 2019
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #13
Mireya Loza, “Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom” (UNC Press, 2016)
Mireya Loza, “Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom” (UNC Press, 2016)
Mireya Loza’s Defiant Braceros How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom (University of North... Read more
12 Sep 2016
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1hr
Ranked #14
Alexander Avina, “Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Alexander Avina, “Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Since September 2014, much of Mexico has been gripped by the story of the Ayotzinapa kidnappings – the mass abduction of... Read more
12 May 2015
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58mins
Ranked #15
Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)
Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)
Over the past quarter-century, scientists have been mapping and exploring the human genome to locate the genetic basis o... Read more
2 Aug 2016
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #16
Karina O. Alvarado et al, “U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance” (U of Arizona Press, 2017)
Karina O. Alvarado et al, “U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance” (U of Arizona Press, 2017)
In U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (University of Arizona Pres... Read more
16 Mar 2018
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58mins
Ranked #17
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015)
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015)
What are the alternatives to the current neo-liberal cultural settlement prevailing in much of the global north? In To D... Read more
1 Dec 2015
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41mins
Ranked #18
Gregory Weeks, “Understanding Latin American Politics” (Pearson, 2014)
Gregory Weeks, “Understanding Latin American Politics” (Pearson, 2014)
What factors compel Central American residents to flee their home countries and head to the United States? What do natio... Read more
8 Oct 2014
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49mins
Ranked #19
Angelique V. Nixon, “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture” (U Press of Mississippi, 2015)
Angelique V. Nixon, “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture” (U Press of Mississippi, 2015)
It’s easy to conjure images of paradise when thinking of the Caribbean. The region is know for its lovely beaches, tempe... Read more
2 Dec 2015
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46mins
Ranked #20
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Bianca Premo’s award-winning book The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire, ... Read more
2 Sep 2019
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1hr 11mins