Mexico category: 1477 books
The Invisible War
Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native...
by Jeffrey Gowing
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
For all of my adult life, when choosing a vacation destination, I have been drawn to places that are 'off the radar' of most travelers. My recent trip to explore Taxco in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, was a good example. When I've told friends who asked where I'd been, most of them had never heard...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Acapulco : (Mexico) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Acapulco : (Mexico) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Acapulco : (Mexico) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
San Miguel de Allende
Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
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Making the Chinese Mexican
Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Navigating...
Chino
Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their...
Jungle Laboratories
Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global...
Mexico at War: From the Struggle for Independence to the 21st-Century Drug Wars
From the Struggle for Independence to the 21st-Century Drug Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A comprehensive overview of Mexico's military history from 1810 to the present day, including rare facts and information not found online.
• Contains 300 entries covering every aspect of military history ranging from weapons to terminology to practices
• Includes a wealth of hard-to-find...
Screening Neoliberalism
Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988-2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Cavernous, often cold, always dark, with the lingering smell of popcorn in the air: the experience of movie-going is universal. The cinematic experience in Mexico is no less profound, and has evolved in complex ways in recent years. Films like Y Tu Mama Tambien, El Mariachi, Amores Perros, and the...
Santa
A Novel of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico...
Surviving Mexico's Dirty War
A Political Prisoner's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
This is the first major, book-length memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. Written with the urgency of a first-person narrative, it is a unique work, providing an inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the...
Experience Mexican Jail!
Based on the Actual Cell-phone Diaries of a Dude Who Spent Four Years in Jail in Cancun!
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In 2016, a record-breaking 7.86 million Americans visited Mexico, which is a lot more than we think go to Canada. So how many end up in jail? Mexico has the largest American prisoner population outside the United States, with hundreds currently serving time. Whether you have plans to visit Mexico's...
by Dalia Antonia Muller
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically...