The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mis
Against a backdrop of European unrest, immigration to America flourished in the nineteenth century, for European Jews as for other groups. Two waves of immigration brought Jews to New Mexico, the firs
This book examines the construction of modern Mexico through the lens of public health and disease. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexicans endured crushing epidemics, especially in tropical
In the 19th century artists flocked to Colorado, drawn to the world-renowned styles such as realism and impressionism, but their successors in the early 20th century were resistant to another Old Wor
