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Recommended Reading: Celebrating a Failure of Regime Change and Nation Building

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

When I started cross-posting on Blog For Arizona, Mike Bryan suggested that, at some point, I plug the book that I am working on. I am not going to do that, except to say that this post arises from someone else’s good book on the subject that actually cites my work.

El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition by David E. Hayes-Bautista, which was published by the University of California Press last year, traces the origins of May 5th celebrations in the United States to 19th century California...

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