Mexico category: 1477 books
Mexico's Unrule of Law
Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Mexico's crisis of security is unrelenting. Why is it so hard to establish the rule of law, and why does the country's justice system continue to struggle to deliver both security and adherence to democratic values and human rights? To answer these questions, Mexico Unrule of Law: Implementing Human...
Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North
Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico—the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes,...
by David M. Carballo
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic period. The major societal transformations of this interval occurred...
Pioneer Printer
Samuel Bangs in Mexico and Texas
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Samuel Bangs, the first printer in the territory that is now Texas, once owed his life to his printing press. One of the few survivors of the Mina Expedition to Mexico in 1817, Bangs wrote to Servando de Mier, "I had the good fortune, through the will of God, to have my life saved, as I was a printer."...
by Richard Hauser
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Are you visiting Tijuana and would like to find out about sightseeing opportunities, Tijuana nightlife or simply want to know where to find the best tacos in Tijuana. Whether you are planning to go on a culinary journey and explore the new Baja Med cuisine, go shopping at Avenida Revolucion or one...
by Andrew Delaplaine
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in MEXICO CITY, a fascinating city of over 21 million people. It’s not as dangerous as a lot of other places in Mexico, and a visit here will be very rewarding.
Updated throughout the year, this concise...
Yesterday's Train
A Rail Odyssey Through Mexican History
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Since 1988, Terry Pindell has been exploring North America, seeking integration of past and present, history and headlines. The result has been three highly acclaimed book spinning a beautiful web of culture, people, travel, and sociology. Now, in his fourth quest for the soul of the continent, Pindell...
Searching for Golden Empires
Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This lively book recounts the explorations of the first generations of Spanish conquistadors and their Native allies. Author William K. Hartmann brings readers along as the explorers probe from Cuba to the Aztec capital of Mexico City, and then northward through the borderlands to New Mexico, the...
Enlightened Immunity
Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued....
Looking Like the Enemy
Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897–1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese citizens sought new opportunities abroad. By 1910, nearly ten thousand had settled in Mexico. Over time, they found work, put down roots, and raised families. But until now, very little has been written about their lives. Looking Like...
The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders...
The Blood Contingent
The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals...
Collapse of Dignity
The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
New York Times bestseller: This story of a disaster that killed dozens of workers is “a damning account of how misused power can cost lives and wreak havoc” (Publishers Weekly).
In the early morning hours of February 19, 2006, a sudden blast shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, trapping...
by George Upton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Maximilian in Mexico is the story of Maximilian I of Mexico.