Mexico category: 1477 books
The Struggle for Maize
Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This mid-2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Theory attempting to explain poverty and development is vast, varied, and, in many ways, inconclusive. In this thesis, I review core literature on the Industrial Revolution and the rise of...
Planet Taco:A Global History of Mexican Food
A Global History of Mexican Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco to Mongolia. But how did this tasty hand-held food--and Mexican food more broadly--become so ubiquitous?In...
Line in the Sand
A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how...
Agrarian Crossings
Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as...
Maturing Masculinities
Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationships, and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. It is based on interviews that Emily A. Wentzell conducted with more than...
by Lisa Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century. In this expansive account, Lisa Sousa focuses on four native groups in highland Mexico—the...
by Laura Resau
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
An intimate, award winning story of immigrants and their families, the borders they cross, and the ties that bind us all together.
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna's name means "clear moon" in Spanish. But lately, her life has felt anything but clear. A letter has arrived from her grandparents...
Tequila Oil
Getting Lost In Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
'Try this tequila oil, Hugito. Just as the alcohol hits your stomach, the chilli will as well and blow it back into your brain. It will take your head off.' Explorer Hugh Thomson takes on Mexico.
It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico....
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us
An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Gibler's is the first and only book available in English that is based on extensive interviews with survivors of the September 2014 killings and abductions of students in Iguala, Mexico. It is a peerless expose of the crimes and the official cover up. The only other book available in English on the...
A History of Infamy
Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions....
by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the Relación was produced by a Franciscan friar together with indigenous noble informants and anonymous native artists who...
by Fernando Montiel T
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2013
La llamada guerra contra las drogas lanzada por el presidente Felipe Calderon al poco tiempo de asumir la presidencia, ha sido objetada a la vez como propiciadora de una inusitada violencia. En este libro el autor va mas alla de lo que, aunque dolorosa, es solo la epidermis del problema donde llama...
by Nathan Muncaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the 1860s a turbulent and battered Mexico fought for its survival against a French invasion. For a moment in time, the world order as we know it today was in question. The nascent United States, an independent Mexico, Europe the worlds balance of power hung in the balance in a chaotic swirl of...