Mexico category: 1477 books
Watering the Revolution
An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during...
Indigenous Citizens
Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply...
Border Odyssey
Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
"We were trying to change the vision and the conversation about border fears."Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the U.S./Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles—from Boca Chica to Tijuana—pressing on with the useful fiction of a map."We needed to go to the place where countless innocent...
The Eagle and the Virgin
Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government...
The Tyranny of Opinion
Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, as Mexico emerged out of decades of civil war and foreign invasion, a modern notion of honor—of one’s reputation and self-worth—became the keystone in the construction of public culture. Mexicans gave great symbolic, social, and material value to honor....
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: December 12, 2016
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 comments...
by William J. Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
A 38 page coffee table style guide book with the Complete story on the migrating Monarch butterflies. Where they are, how to get to them, and how they were found. A Driving Adventure loaded with full-color, full-page pictures.
Training Juan Domingo
Mexico and Me
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Deceptively fresh and innocent, this book is really a hair-raising and rowdy venture from start to finish, by a woman who turns the commonplace into pure magic. And the not so commonplace: a drug bust, the Kennedy assassination, a climb to the crater of Paricutin volcano, Acapulco in the 50s. This...
Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution
Cinema and the Archive
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
With a cast ranging from Pancho Villa to Dolores del Río and Tina Modotti, Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution demonstrates the crucial role played by Mexican and foreign visual artists in revolutionizing Mexico's twentieth-century national iconography. Investigating the convergence...
The Inevitable Bandstand
The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state.
In The Inevitable Bandstand,...
by Jorge Enrique Hardoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient...
Miguel Pro
Martyrdom, Politics, and Society in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Miguel Pro: Martyrdom and Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico examines the complex relationship of modern martyrdom as preserved by memory and factual truth, and as retold through stories intended to impel political and religious aims. Martyr narratives depend on institutional affiliation to remain...
Ranchero Revolt
The Mexican Revolution in Guerrero
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The Mexican Revolution has most often been characterized as the revolt of the oppressed rural masses against the conservative regime of Porfirio Díaz. In Ranchero Revolt Ian Jacobs challenges this populist interpretation of the Revolution by exploring the crucial role played by the rural middle class—rancheros—in...