Mexico category: 1477 books
Mexico, 1848-1853
Los Años Olvidados
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Historians have paid scant attention to the five years that span from the conclusion early in 1848 of Mexico’s disastrous conflict with the United States to the final return to power in April 1853 of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. This volume presents a more thorough understanding of this...
Sons of the Sierra
Juárez, Díaz, and the People of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The period following Mexico's war with the United States in 1847 was characterized by violent conflicts, as liberal and conservative factions battled for control of the national government. The civil strife was particularly bloody in south central Mexico, including the southern state of Oaxaca. In...
Searching for Madre Matiana
Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the nation’s calamitous destiny—foreign invasion, widespread misery, and chronic civil strife. The revelations,...
Inherit the Dust from the Four Winds of Revilla
A 250-Year Historical Perspective with Emphasis on Ancient Guerrero, Its People and Its Land Grants
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
Rich in period analysis, here is fascinating historical perspective covering 250 years of existence primarily of a 1750 Spanish settlement originally called Villa del Seor San Ignacio de Loyola de Revilla and now known as "Guerrero Viejo." Although many books cover the genealogical aspects...
Democracy Within Reason
Technocratic Revolution in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1997
During the 1980s the Mexican regime faced a series of economic, social, and political disasters that led many to question its survival. Yet by 1992 the economy was again growing, with inflation under control and the confidence of international investors restored. Mexico was now touted as an example...
Mexican Exodus
Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government. Bearing aloft the banners of Christ the King and the Virgin of Guadalupe, they equipped themselves not only with guns, but also with scapulars, rosaries, prayers, and religious visions. These soldiers were...
by C. Harvey Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In this account of the naval aspect of Hernando Corts's invasion of the Aztec Empire, C. Harvey Gardiner has added another dimension to the drama of Spanish conquest of the New World and to Corts himself as a military strategist. The use of ships, in the climactic moment of the Spanish-Aztec clash, which...
Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico
Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug- trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico.
Indigenous Knowledge and Development
Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of a group of indigenous people living in a natural resource protected area in west central Mexico. The political, economic, and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
The Human Tradition in Mexico is a book of real-life stories of Mexicans throughout more than 250 years of the country's history. This text does not focus on presidents, generals, and other well-known figures, but rather on the ordinary individuals who faced challenges common to all Mexicans of their...
The Essential History of Mexico
From Pre-Conquest to Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The full text of The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires devastated by the Spanish conquest through the 21st-century, including the election of 2012. Written in a clear and accessible manner, the book offers a straightforward...
The Secret History of Gender
Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, he challenges assumptions about gender...
Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico
The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
In Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico Jennie Purnell reconsiders peasant partisanship in the cristiada of 1926–29, one episode in the broader Mexican Revolution and the last major popular rebellion in Mexican history. While some scholars have argued that the Mexican Revolution...
Mexico and the Spanish Cortes, 1810–1822
Eight Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Few developments in the history of the Spanish colonial system in Mexico have been more carelessly treated or more often misinterpreted than the attempt to establish constitutional government in New Spain under the Spanish monarchy during the 1809–1814 and 1820–1822 periods. Yet the broad outlines...