| Dictablanda: Politics, work, and culture in Mexico, 1938–1968 P Gillingham, BT Smith Duke University Press, 2014 | 153 | 2014 |
| Pistoleros and popular movements: the politics of state formation in postrevolutionary Oaxaca BT Smith U of Nebraska Press, 2009 | 110 | 2009 |
| The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962 BT Smith UNM Press, 2012 | 75 | 2012 |
| The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940–1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street BT Smith UNC Press Books, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| The rise and fall of narcopopulism: Drugs, politics, and society in Sinaloa, 1930–1980 BT Smith Journal for the Study of Radicalism 7 (2), 125-165, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| The last harvest? From the US fentanyl boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis RL Grandmaison, N Morris, B Smith Journal of Illicit Economies and Development 1 (3), 312-329, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| Introduction: The Paradoxes of Revolution PJ Gillingham, BT Smith Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968, 1-43, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| The dope: The real history of the Mexican drug trade BT Smith Random House, 2021 | 23 | 2021 |
| Building a state on the cheap: Taxation, social movements, and politics BT Smith Duke University Press, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Strongmen and State weakness R Hernández Rodríguez Gillingham, P. y Smith, BT, coords., Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and …, 1938 | 19 | 1938 |
| The End of the Mexican Revolution? From Cárdenas to Avila Camacho, 1937–1941 A Knight Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968, 47-64, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Anticlericalism, politics, and freemasonry in Mexico, 1920–1940 B Smith The Americas 65 (4), 559-588, 2009 | 16 | 2009 |
| Public drug policy and grey zone pacts in Mexico, 1920–1980 BT Smith Drug policies and the politics of drugs in the Americas, 33-51, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Dictablanda: Politics P Gillingham, BT Smith Work, and Culture in Mexico 1968, 1938 | 15 | 1938 |
| Anticlericalism and Resistance: The Diocese of Huajuapam de Leon, 1930–1940 BT Smith Journal of Latin American Studies 37 (3), 469-505, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico P Gillingham, M Lettieri, BT Smith University of New Mexico Press, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Who Governed? Grassroots Politics in Mexico Under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, 1958–1970 BT Smith Past & Present 225 (1), 227-271, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| Heliodoro Charis Castro and the soldiers of Juchitán: indigenous militarism, local rule, and the Mexican state BT Smith Forced Marches: Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico, 110-35, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Inventing Tradition at Gunpoint: Culture, Caciquismo and State Formation in the Región Mixe, Oaxaca (1930–1959) B Smith Bulletin of Latin American Research 27 (2), 215-234, 2008 | 10 | 2008 |
| The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism BT Smith Society, and Politics in, 1750 | 10 | 1750 |
