Peter Guardino: 2 books
The Time of Liberty
Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this...
The Dead March
A History of the Mexican-American War
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Focusing on ordinary Mexicans and Americans, Peter Guardino offers a clearer picture than we have ever had of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America. He shows how dramatically U.S. forces underestimated Mexicans’ patriotism, fierce resistance, and bitter resentment of American claims to national and racial superiority.