Mexico category: 1477 books
Maya Exodus
Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Maya Exodus offers a richly detailed account of how a group of indigenous people has adopted a global language of human rights to press claims for social change and social justice. Anthropologist Heidi Moksnes describes how Catholic Maya in the municipality of Chenalhó in Chiapas, Mexico, have changed...
by Andrew Selee
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, many countries in Latin America freed themselves from the burden of their authoritarian pasts and developed democratic political systems. At the same time, they began a process of shifting many governmental responsibilities from the national to the...
Momentos Positivos De Mexico
Enero 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2014
La realidad econmica mundial, no exenta a los pases ricos y pobres de caer en recesiones o tener problemas en los estratos de la sociedad, descomposicin del tejido social, delincuencia, narcotrfico, problemas de salud, problemas polticos, no hay una frmula ideal para la solucin de todos los posibles...
Landscapes of Power and Identity
Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
Landscapes of Power and Identity is a groundbreaking comparative history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empire—the Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia’s lowlands—from the late colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth century....
Mexican Revolution
The Constitutionalist Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The years 1913-1920 were the most critical years of the Mexican revolution. This study of the period, a sequel to Cumberland's Mexican Revolution: Genesis under Madero (University of Texas Press, 1952), traces Mexico's course through the anguish of civil war to the establishment of a tenuous new government,...
The Chiapas Rebellion
The Struggle for Land and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1998
In 1994 the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Neil Harvey combines ten years of field work in Chiapas with extensive historical and political research to provide a comprehensive history of conflict in this region and a nuanced analysis of...
Chinese Mexicans
Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties--and families--these Mexicans and Chinese created led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican. During the tumult of the Mexican...
La Revolución
Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The 1910 Revolution is still tangibly present in Mexico in the festivals that celebrate its victories, on the monuments to its heroes, and, most important, in the stories and memories of the Mexican people. Yet there has never been general agreement on what the revolution meant, what its objectives...
Attack and Counterattack
The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
It is 1842—a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches...
Race and Classification
The Case of Mexican America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population,...
Receive Our Memories
The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated...
A Sentimental Education for the Working Man
The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers...
Beyond Alterity
Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The concept of “indigenous” has been entwined with notions of exoticism and alterity throughout Mexico’s history. In Beyond Alterity, authors from across disciplines question the persistent association between indigenous people and radical difference, and demonstrate that alterity is often the...
Sons of the Mexican Revolution
Miguel Alemán and His Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Alemán. Supporters hailed them as modernizing visionaries whose policies laid the foundation for unprecedented economic growth, while critics...