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True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico
. Ed(S): Buffington, Robert; Piccato, Pablo
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Description for True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico
Paperback. Crime has played a complicated role in the history of human social relations. This volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of social deviance from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Each essay centers on a different crime story and explores the documentary record of each case. Editor(s): Buffington, Robert; Piccato, Pablo. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 social deviance from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each essay centers on ... Read more
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 social deviance from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each essay centers on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Dialogos
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826345295
SKU
V9780826345295
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About . Ed(S): Buffington, Robert; Piccato, Pablo
Robert Buffington is associate professor of women and gender studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico. Pablo Piccato is associate professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931.
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