Mexico category: 1477 books
by Peter Calvert
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book seeks to tell the history of Mexico since the outbreak of the Revolution in 1910, setting it however in a wider historical context. It describes the period of civil war, the re-emergence of stable government and the consolidation in the 1930s of the so-called 'Institutionalized Revolution....
by Peter E. Newell
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Emiliano Zapata (born in the pueblo of Anenecuilco in the Mexican state of Morelos on 9 August 1879), possibly the ‘purest embodiment’ of the Mexican Revolution, was betrayed and murdered in the patio of the Hacienda de San Juan, in Chinameca on 10 April 1919. Who, and what, was Zapata? This...
by Emily Edmonds-Poli, David A. Shirk
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Now in a thoroughly updated edition, this comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico’s political development and examines the most important policy issues facing Mexico in the twenty-first century. The text to this revised edition is richly supplemented by new figures and tables...
Continental Crossroads
Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections....
Radio in Revolution
Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Long before the Arab Spring and its use of social media demonstrated the potent intersection between technology and revolution, the Mexican Revolution employed wireless technology in the form of radiotelegraphy and radio broadcasting to alter the course of the revolution and influence how political...
Revolution at Querétaro
The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917 came to grips with the basic problem of twentieth-century Mexico. They hammered out pragmatic solutions to establish the legal foundations of the Mexican Revolution, the definitive break...
Where the River Ends
Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village...
by Craig H. Roell
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande. In this provocative book, Craig Roell restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social,...
by David Yetman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups—Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. Priests hoped to pacify Indians, who in turn resisted the missionary clergy. Settlers, who often encountered opposition...
Volunteering for a Cause
Gender, Faith, and Charity in Mexico from the Reform to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This thoughtful study challenges a number of widespread assumptions about the role of Catholicism in Mexican history by examining two related Catholic charities: the male Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. With thousands of volunteers, these lay groups...
Michoacán and Eden
Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Don Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Western Mexico. Driven by the desire to convert the native Purhpecha-Chichimec peoples to a purified form of Christianity, free of the corruptions of European Catholicism, he sought to establish New World Edens in Michoacán by...
by Jeffrey Gowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
My pal, Carla, has traveled to Cozumel many times in the past via flights from San Antonio. I’ve made the same trip with her on a half-dozen occasions over the years since moving to San Antonio from New England in 2000, always to enjoy the spectacular scuba diving for which this destination is famous.
For...
Fire & Blood
A History of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Mexican history comes to life in this “fascinating” work by the author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (The Christian Science Monitor).
Fire & Blood brilliantly depicts the succession of tribes and societies that have variously called Mexico their home, their battleground,...
Operation Mexico!
Carl Kiekhaefer vs the 1951-1953 Pan American Road Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
For five years, Mexico staged a car race that held the sporting world mesmerized for a week of thrills, spills, and chills. Competitors came from all around the world to participate in this brutal race of about 2,035 miles over rugged terrain. Goliaths of the car industry soon discovered the race provided...