Mexico category: 1477 books
Viva Cristo Rey!
The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Between 1926 and 1929, thousands of Mexicans fought and died in an attempt to overthrow the government of their country. They were the Cristeros, so called because of their battle cry, Viva Cristo Rey!—Long Live Christ the King! The Cristero rebellion and the church-state conflict remain one of the...
Violence and Activism at the Border
Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year, yet law enforcement officials have made no breakthroughs in finding the perpetrator(s)....
From Idols to Antiquity
Forging the National Museum of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential...
Making Cinelandia
American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate Mexico's cinemas, many of its cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United States. In Making Cinelandia, Laura Isabel Serna contends that Hollywood films were not simply...
Dictablanda
Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938 – 1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. A single party ruled Mexico for over seventy years, holding elections and talking about revolution while overseeing one of the world's most inequitable economies. The...
Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance
Mexico and the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh’s discussion of state formation in Mexico...
Seriously Funny
Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Political jokes exist around the world and across many types of political systems. But what purposes do they serve? Do they have an impact on politics—or on politicians? Surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to these significant questions. And, until the publication of this book, no one...
Paisanos Chinos
Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China—both Nationalist and Communist—as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos...
Carving a Niche
The Medical Profession in Mexico, 1800-1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of the medical profession. During this tumultuous period of transition, physicians and surgeons merged in an effort to monopolize the field and ensure their...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. Those published to date have largely been from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Testaments of Toluca presents a...
Domesticating Organ Transplant
Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Organ transplant in Mexico is overwhelmingly a family matter, utterly dependent on kidneys from living relatives—not from stranger donors typical elsewhere. Yet Mexican transplant is also a public affair that is proudly performed primarily in state-run hospitals. In Domesticating Organ Transplant,...
Foundational Arts
Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The languages of two hemispheres collided when Spain conquered Mexico, and as a result, a dynamic expression of visual and dramatic arts emerged. Mural painting and missionary theater quickly became the media to explain and comprehend the encounter of indigenous peoples with Christ and the crucifixion,...
Death in the City
Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the morgue,...
The Supernatural Sublime
The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
The Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques...