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Double play: Mobile & Latin America
This past week has seen a little progress on the ol’ TBR front, as I knocked out three books from the list, including The Network and those below. First up was E.O. Wilson’s Why We Are Here: Mobile and the … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, World Affairs
Tagged Alabama, history, Latino, Mexico, South America
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How to Run a Drug Cartel
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel © 2016 Tom Wainright 288 pages I only know of one rule for the drug business, and that via Scarface: never get high on your own supply. And as Manny could tell you, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged business, Central America, crime, drug war on America, gangs tribes and parties, goods/services, Mexico
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The Beast
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail © 2014 224 pages This is the third of three reviews I needed to publish before the English material can roll. And now, Rule Britannia! The news cycle … Continue reading
American Dirt
American Dirt © 2020 Jeanine Cummins 387 pages It was the garden party from hell. One moment, Lydia Pérez was enjoying her niece’s quinceañera; the next, she and her son Luca were huddling in the shower, listening as their family … Continue reading
Flying high in rockets and opiods
Well, folks, Christmas is over, and so is 2018 — almost. Below are the final comments or reviews for 2018: Dreamland and Rocket Girls, two very different histories. One is inspiring, the other….so very not. First up, Rocket Girls! Call to … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged crime, drug war on America, history, human spaceflight, Mexico
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Fire and Blood
Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico © 1973 T.R. Fehrenbach675 pages Fire and Blood is an epic history of Mexico, one that begins at the dawn of time and takes its time moving on. Case in point: the 20th century is … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 2018 Peoples of the Americas, Central America, Hispanic, history, Mexico, Spain
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House of Rain
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest© 2007 Craig Childs482 pages Throughout the southwest United States and northern Mexico there are ruins from a people long gone, people remembered as the Anasazi. The name is not … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 2018 Peoples of the Americas, American Southwest, archaeology, history, Mexico, New Mexico, travel
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The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
The Irish Soldiers of Mexico© 1997 Michael Hogan298 pages And it was there in the pueblos and the hillsidesThat I saw the mistake I had madePart of a conquering army, with the morals of a bayonet brigadeAnd amidst all these … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, Catholicism, history, Ireland, Mexico, military
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The Mexican Frontier
The Mexican Frontier 1821 – 1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico© 1982 David Weber (University of New Mexico Press)440 pages In 1821, the people of Mexico declared their independence from Spain, recognizing that its Napoleonic straits meant that the mother … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American Frontier, American Southwest, American West, California, history, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, Texas
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