Books by Ruth Behar
“Ruth Behar is an anthropologist and this book belongs to a genre of ethnographic writing that is very illuminating about what Mexican society was like in the 20th century, which consists of interviewing what we might call ordinary people, many of them very poor people, and then editing and reordering the answers of those people into narratives of their lives.” Read more...
The best books on Mexican history
Timo Schaefer, Historian
Interviews where books by Ruth Behar were recommended
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Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico
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Los Conspiradores
by Jorge Ibarüengoitia -
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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
by Friedrich Katz -
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Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story
by Ruth Behar -
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The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
by Benjamin Smith
The best books on Mexican history, recommended by Timo Schaefer
The best books on Mexican history, recommended by Timo Schaefer
In Mexican history, power developed in marginal locations away from the center has often played a major role in critical historical events, says award-winning historian Timo Schaefer. He recommends some of the best books on Mexican history, from a biography of the extraordinary Malintzin (c1500-1529) to a myth-busting history of the drug trade.
