Mexico category: 1477 books
Indigenous Intellectuals
Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars...
The Plan de San Diego
Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution. The plan called for an insurrection of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and African...
The Taken
True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug trafficking, ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being “taken”—kidnapped or held against their will by armed men, whether criminals, police, or both....
by Chris Covert
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to...
On the Border
Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of...
by Joanie Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
South of Veracruz looms the state of Oaxaca. Highway 17 from Veracruz pushes right into its northern half, unmindful of the mountains that rise up, the vegetation that looms closer and greener, or the wildlife that diversifies and multiplies, as the population thins out. Oaxaca's northern half is wild...
Fire and Song
The story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. What heresies will the Holy Office uncover? Can he protect his mother and sisters?
He is Luis...
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico
From the Aztecs to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
by John Heard Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
An abbreviated history of Maximillian's ill fated Mexican Empire arranged by and abandoned by Napoleon.
Braceros
Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety...
Choose Mexico for Retirement
Information for Travel, Retirement, Investment, and Affordable Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
With information on travel, business opportunities, cost of living, medical care, culture, climate and more, this book will define exciting and different options for retirement.
Palace Politics
How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Bringing rare interviews and meticulous research to the cloaked world of Mexican politics in the mid-twentieth century, Palace Politics provides a captivating look at the authoritarian Mexican state—one of the longest-lived regimes of its kind in recent history—as well as the origins of political...
So You Want To Move To Tulum, Mexico? Your Guide To Successful Relocation In The Mayan Riviera
Expatriate And Escape The Rat Race!
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Are you ready for a major lifestyle change?
In this Expat Fever! series book you will learn all about Tulum, a bohemian beach town in the heart of the Riviera Maya. This book is meant to give you an idea of what living in Tulum is really like.
In this guide, you’ll read first-hand...
by Artemio de Valle Arizpe
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Inmersos en vidas ajenas, envueltos en un atuendo que no es el nuestro y viviendo la vida de otros, los lectores de este libro poco a poco nos adentramos en los arcanos de la urbe. Aprendemos, en un paseo a la vez geográfico y temporal, que el origen del nombre antiguo de ciertas calles puede hallarse...