Mexico category: 1477 books
by Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific...
Los Zetas Inc.
Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of...
The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
A Chronicle of the Collision of Two Worlds (long non-ilustrated version)
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Trying to understand the conquest of the Aztec Empire entails penetrating one of the most fabulous and sad episodes of the history of mankind. It is well known that the Spaniards, led by Hernan Cortes, conquered the Aztecs; the most powerful civilization of Mesoamerica. However, there are many questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering...
Dolores del Río
Beauty in Light and Shade
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Dolores del Río's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her husband left Mexico in 1925, as both their well-to-do families suffered from the economic downturn...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States remains the leading economic, diplomatic, and strategic partner of Latin America. However, the hegemonic geopolitical influence the United States once exerted is arguably...
Made in Mexico
Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book concerns the aesthetic, political, and socio-political aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. Tourists seeking "authenticity" buy crafts and festival tickets, and spend even more on travel expenses. What does a craft object or a festival moment need to...
Epics of Empire and Frontier
Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia...
The Directory for Confessors, 1585
Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and religious life—and, for the Catholic clergy of New Spain, a new avenue through which they might reach the consciences of Spaniards and improve their treatment...
Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion
Modernist Visions and the Invisible Indian
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
To many observers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mexico appeared to be a modern nation-state at last assuming an international role through its participation in NAFTA and the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development). Then came the Zapatista revolt on New Year's Day 1994. Wearing...
Public Spectacles of Violence
Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, which were among Latin America’s most industrialized nations and later developed...
Mier Expedition Diary
A Texan Prisoner's Account
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Few episodes in Texas history have excited more popular interest than the Mier Expedition of 1842. Nineteen-year-old Joseph D. McCutchan was among the 300 Texans who, without the cover of the Lone Star flag, launched their own disastrous invasion across the Rio Grande. McCutchan's diary provides a...
by Thomas A. Janvier
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Mexico City is one of the oldest cities in the new world, and its long history has endowed it with numerous legends. Many of fascinating legends are related in these pages, including: Legend of Don Juan Manuel, Legend of the Obedient Dead Nun, and many others.
Moon Baja
Including Cabo San Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**Moon Travel Guides: Your World Your Way
Warm, turquoise ocean, rugged desert mountains, and cities bursting with art and culture. Immerse yourself in this colorful peninsula with Moon Baja.**
Strategic itineraries in an easy-to-navigate format, such as "Classic Baja Road Trip,"...