Books by Timo Schaefer
Timo Schaefer is the author of Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico (Cambridge University Press 2017) and is currently working on a popular history book tentatively titled The Labyrinth: A History of Latin America. He teaches Latin American history at the University of Edinburgh.
Interviews with Timo Schaefer
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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 -
5
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.
