Mexico category: 1477 books
Mexico’s Merchant Elite, 1590–1660
Silver, State, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Combining social, political, and economic history, Louisa Schell Hoberman examines a neglected period in Mexico’s colonial past, providing the first book-length study of the period’s merchant elite and its impact on the evolution of Mexico.
Through extensive archival research, Hoberman brings...
by Ava Waddell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 22, 2017
El 23 de Marzo de 1994, fue asesinato un desconocido candidato a la presidencia mexicana, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, que tenia mas probabilidades de ocupar la sede de la oficina de la República de Mexico. Fue un evento que sorprendio al pueblo Mexicano. El asesino, Mario Aburto Martínez, fue...
Waking from the Dream
Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary...
The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico
Pass Well over the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico now offers...
Containing the Poor
The Mexico City Poor House, 1774–1871
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House—the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arrom...
by Matthew D. O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field’s focus on historical memory to instead examine colonial-era conceptions of the future
Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O’Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover...
Undocumented Lives
The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans...
Exports and Local Development
Mexico's New Maquiladoras
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Mexico's export assembly industry has been the object of an intensely polarized debate. While some observers laud the maquiladora industry as a source of much-needed employment and foreign exchange for Mexico, others berate it as a vehicle for exploitation and pollution. Exports and Local Development...
by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic...
City of Suspects
Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners’ letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the...
Todos Santos and Baja Bcs Mexico
A Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Todos Santos is a tiny coastal town at the foothills of the mountains on Mexicos Baja California Peninsula that is encircled by the Pacific Ocean on the west and Mar de Cortez on the east. Embraced by an artistic community, Todos Santos offers discoveries at the end of each road, a rich history, and...
The Codex Mexicanus
A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Reynosa : (Mexico) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Reynosa : (Mexico) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Reynosa : (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.