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MS/EM's early career article award, which has been renamed in honor of its most recent emeritus editor, is now accepting self-nominations.

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos incoming editor is interested in continuing the journal's foundational mission, while finding new ways to increase MSEM’s visibility throughout Mexico and to intensify interdisciplinary dialogue within the pages of MSEM.

by Lynn Stephen and Laura Velasco-Ortiz, guest editors of the special issueIn a special issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, called "Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States," we look at how Indigenous people from Mesoamerica move in modern times. We study h

Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos’s current issue includes the article “Valle Imperial/valle de Mexicali, 1910–28: su impacto en la cuenca del río Colorado y la disputa por los usos sociales” by Marco Antonio Samaniego López, which examines the controversial negotiations between Mexico and the Uni

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos's current issue features a thematic section on the bicentennial of Mexican independence, which highlights the contribution of political actors generally ignored in official tributes to heroic figures. Specifically, the issue includes articles that examine the parti

Before 1810, silver capitalism made New Spain the richest kingdom in the Americas. Then in 1808, the judicial regime pivotal to stabilizing its inequities fell to militarized powers. Two years later, insurgents took arms to claim sustenance and then land, breaking commercial cultivation, mining, and

Edison phonograph and Gold Moulded records, from a 1909 advertisementAt the turn of the previous century, during the Porfiriato, Mexico lived through a time of technological revolutions that modified ways of perceiving time, distance, and sounds. Consider the phonograph, created by Thomas Alva E

Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos joins in the celebration and critical reflection of Mexico’s bicentennial of independence. Hence we are glad to announce the forthcoming Thematic Section “Bicentennial Mexican Independence: New Critical Insights” to be published in our 37.3 issue in November. Thi

We're marking the 2021 virtual conference of the Latin American Studies Association by offering a selection of free content from UC Press journals. Current History, the oldest publication devoted exclusively to international affairs published in the United States, devotes its February is

Mexican fiscal history is characterized by a constant: poor tax collection. Despite several attempts to reform the tax system, no change has resulted in a level of tax collection that would place Mexico close to that of countries at similar income levels. In "The Superfluous Congress: Executive Domi