About the Author

Jurgen Buchenau is professor and chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City and editor of Mexico OtherWise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers, 1865 - Present (both UNMP). He is coeditor of Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952: Portraits in Conflict, Corruption, and Courage. Lyman L. Johnson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is coauthor of The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America and editor of Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America (both UNMP). Johnson is general editor for Dialogos, a series of University of New Mexico Press titles about Latin American History, culture, and politics.