Mexico category: 1477 books
The Mexican Mahjar
Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the time the Ottoman political system collapsed in 1918, over a third of the population of the Mashriq, i.e. the Levant, had made the transatlantic journey....
Mapping and Empire
Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States took ownership of the land from the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico to the Pacific Coast of Alta and Baja California—today's American Southwest. Each country faced the challenge of holding on...
by Arthur Knoll
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Mexico is a concise overview of modern Mexican history.
The River People in Flood Time
The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The River People in Flood Time tells the astonishing story of how the people of nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico, overcame impossible odds to expel foreign interventions. Tabascans resisted control by Mexico City, overcame the grip of a Cuban adventurer who seized the region for two years, turned...
The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos
Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World.
The terms converso and judaizante are often used...
Urban Indians in a Silver City
Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these...
Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail
or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Wah-to-Yah is the only well-known book written by Garrard. It has won a secure place in the literature of the American
West.
On 1 Sept 1846, Garrard, 17 years old, joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri to travel along the Santa Fe Trail to
New Mexico. He stopped off at Bent's Fort for two...
Are We Not Foreigners Here?
Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Since its inception, the U.S.-Mexico border has invited the creation of cultural, economic, and political networks that often function in defiance of surrounding nation-states. It has also produced individual and group identities that are as subversive as they are dynamic. In Are We Not Foreigners...
by Lewis Spence
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
There is now no question as to the indigenous origin of the civilisations of Mexico, Central America, and Peru. Upon few subjects, however, has so much mistaken erudition been lavished. The beginnings of the races who inhabited these regions, and the cultures which they severally created, have been...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study will explore the relationship between military professionalism and military political influence. While many scholars believe that increased military professionalism will "depoliticize"...
by Jürgen Buchenau
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
The only substantive study of Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution, this book traces the remarkable life story of a complex and little-understood, yet key figure in Mexico's history. Jürgen Buchenau draws on a rich array of archival evidence from Mexico, the United States, and Europe...
by Leopoldo Zea
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Positivism, not just an “ivory tower” philosophy, was a major force in the social, political, and educational life of Mexico during the last half of the nineteenth century. Once colonial conservatism had been conquered, the French Intervention ended, and Maximilian of Hapsburg executed, reformers...
A Mexican Family Empire
The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate—the hacienda. In Mexico, the latifundio, an estate usually composed of two or more haciendas, dominated the social and economic structure of the country for four hundred years. A Mexican...
by William H. Beezley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new, exacerbating...