Mexico category: 1477 books
Imagining la Chica Moderna
Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2008
In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country. Some of the images were addressed directly to women through advertisements, as illustrations accompanying articles...
International Women's Year
The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in history." The event drew...
by Anthony Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved...
Zapotec Women
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlán...
by Robert L. Scheina
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2003
Most Americans regarded Antonio L?pez de Santa Anna as a villain for his brutal assault on the Alamo in 1836. What many donÆt realize is that few individuals have caused their own nation greater pain. He lost one-third of MexicoÆs territory in wars, sold almost another 30,000 square miles while pocketing...
Picturing the Proletariat
Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In the wake of Mexico’s revolution, artists played a fundamental role in constructing a national identity centered on working people and were hailed for their contributions to modern art. Picturing the Proletariat examines three aspects of this artistic legacy: the parallel paths of organized labor...
by Lyn Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Ready to travel beyond where even news reporters fear to tread? Fresh Wind & Strange Fire is author Lyn Fuchs’ journey through stranger-than-fiction primal terrain. As an American professor in a Mexican university exploring the southern reaches of his adopted country, Fuchs knows the territory...
Tarahumara Medicine
Ethnobotany and Healing among the Rarámuri of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The Tarahumara, one of North America’s oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning “nimble feet”—and though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in long-distance running is famous worldwide. Tarahumara Medicine is the first in-depth...
by Eric Van Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways...
Chocolate and Corn Flour
History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however,...
Return to Aztlan
Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Long before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the “Kingdom of Nuevo México” had existed as an imaginary world—and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards’ ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors sought in the 1500s,...
Fodor's Puerto Vallarta
with Guadalajara & Riviera Nayarit
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
Delicious local cuisine, vibrant nightlife, natural beauty, and an abundance of sunny beaches make Puerto Vallarta one of the most-visited destinations in Mexico. From the authentic...
by Andrew Delaplaine
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Cancún. Updated throughout the year, you'll save a lot of time using this concise guide. “So many wonderful things to do in the water here. This book opened up a whole new world for us.” –Horace G.,...
by Charles Flandrau
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Flandrau was a rich young American with an individual sense of humour and no prejudices, except against Western uniformity. His travel book, first published in 1908, is more than a ramble among the Mexican people. Based on his brother's coffee plantation, he spent the best part of five years in a...