Mexico category: 1477 books
Modern Mexican Culture
Critical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Diego Rivera’s mural Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central is a fascinating critique of high society and wealthy elites. It also offers a multitude of other stories that intersect in a web of historical memory. The massive mural, the histories it depicts, and even its physical journey...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hermosillo : (Mexico) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hermosillo : (Mexico) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hermosillo : (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.
Oil, Banks, and Politics
The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917-1924
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Mexico was second only to the United States as the world's largest oil producer in the years following the Mexican Revolution. As the revolutionary government became institutionalized, it sought to assure its control of Mexico's oil resources through the Constitution of 1917, which returned subsoil...
Pueblos within Pueblos
Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos”...
Torn from the World
A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World. The author is John Gibler, a real outlaw."--Diego Enrique Osorno, author of El Cartel de Sinaloa
Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn...
Narcoland
The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The product of five years’ investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to its author, Anabel Hernández, Narcoland has been a publishing and political sensation...
Democratization Without Representation
The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
When countries become more democratic, new opportunities arise for individuals and groups to participate in politics and influence the making of policy. But democratization does not ensure better representation for everyone, and indeed some sectors of society are ill-equipped to take advantage of...
by Dolores Trevizo
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
When the PRI fell from power in the elections of 2000, scholars looked for an explanation. Some focused on international pressures, while others pointed to recent electoral reforms. In contrast, Dolores Trevizo argues that a more complete explanation takes much earlier democratizing changes in civil...
We Came Naked and Barefoot
The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six...
Violence and Naming
On Mexico and the Promise of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array...
A City on a Lake
Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization...
by Charles M. Robinson III
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Spanish conquest of Mexico was the most remarkable military expedition in history, and in achieving it, Hernan Cortes proved himself as one of the greatest generals of all time. This book explains the background of the Aztec Empire and of the Spanish presence in Mexico. It describes the lives...
Home Grown
Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial...
The Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In The Mark of Rebels Barry Robinson offers a new look at Mexican Independence from the perspective of an indigenous population caught in the heart of the struggle. During the conquest and settlement of Mexico’s Western Sierra Madre, Spain’s indigenous allies constructed an indio fronterizo identity...