Mexico category: 1477 books
Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico
Archaeological Confirmations of Early Spanish Reports
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“[This book] presents a great amount of new information for a poorly known or understood area of northern Mexico, and provides a pleasant integration of the methods and theories of anthropology, geography, and ecology in a well-organized manner. . . . This report represents an important contribution...
Forjando Patria
Pro-Nacionalismo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Often considered the father of anthropological studies in Mexico, Manuel Gamio originally published Forjando Patria in 1916. This groundbreaking manifesto for a national anthropology of Mexico summarizes the key issues in the development of anthropology as an academic discipline and the establishment...
by Mary Andrade
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
In this third book of the series Through the Eyes of the Soul Day of the Dead in Mexico, vibrant color photographs illustrate the description of Day of the Dead in the Central Valleys and Xandu Ya (All Saints Day) in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca. The importance of the community leaders, the...
Political Recruitment across Two Centuries
Mexico, 1884-1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
During more than twenty years of field research, Roderic Ai Camp built a monumental database of biographical information on more than 3,000 leading national figures in Mexico. In this major contribution to Mexican political history, he draws on that database to present a definitive account of the paths...
Moon Los Cabos
Including La Paz & Todos Santos
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Los Cabos is synonymous with luxury and relaxation, but the best of Baja starts just beyond the resorts. Dive into the real Mexico with Moon Los Cabos. Inside you'll find:
Flexible itineraries, from four days of waves, tacos, and sunshine to a road trip through Baja Sur, along with the best beaches...
Men in a Developing Society
Geographic and Social Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment. It is based mainly on a sample of 1,640 men in Monterrey, Mexico,...
Cárdenas Compromised
The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2001
Cárdenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico’s urban and rural labor in the Yucatán region during the regime of Lázaro Cárdenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused...
In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution
Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Hctor Aguilar Camn and Lorenzo Meyer, two of Mexico's leading intellectuals, set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of contemporary Mexico during the twentieth century. A la sombra de la Revolucin Mexicana, now available in English...
by History and Civilization Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
This book deals with the antiquities of Mexico (with illustrations).
“The Mexican Republic extends from the fifteenth to the thirtieth degree of north latitude, and embraces an area of about 750,000 square miles. It is traversed by the continuation of the Cordillera of South America, here called...
I Speak of the City
Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today.
Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature,...
by Stacy B. Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For centuries the Huichol (Wixárika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms. This West Mexican tradition has been passed down from mothers to daughters since pre-Columbian times. Weaving is a part of each woman’s identity—allowing them to express their...
by Monica L. Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
1821 Guadalajara, Mexico exhibited surprising mobility within its population. Using data from the back-to-back censuses of 1821 and 1822, this study argues that mobility affected almost every individual who lived in Guadalajara during that time period. The methodology used traces individuals who persisted...
by Robert L. Scheina
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Starting with twenty-eight followers, Francisco Pancho Villa rose out of banditry to become a dynamic strategist who mastered the tactical use of a diverse array of weapons, including modern railroads and cavalry, to contest control of Mexico. In his early days as a brigand, the peasantry idolized him...
Black Market Capital
Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In this extraordinary new book, Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city. The story centers on the untold history of the Baratillo, the city’s infamous...