Mexico category: 1477 books
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This fourth edition of Roderic Camp's highly respected Mexican Political Biographies is an updated comprehensive biographical directory of leading state and national politicians in Mexico, covering the years 1935–2009. The original edition, published in 1976, was the first and only comprehensive...
Redeeming the Revolution
The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary...
They Should Stay There
The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Here, for the first time in English—and from the Mexican perspective—is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Throughout its history, the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) has faced unique challenges not shared by other organizations within the Army. The origins of many of today's organizational...
City on Fire
Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social...
The Heart in the Glass Jar
Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man’s literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters—as both symbols and material objects—of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s.
William...
by Artemio de Valle Arizpe
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Este segundo volumen de Historia, Tradiciones y Leyendas de calles de México, constituye un universo completo, orgánico, cerrado: el reflejo de una ciudad durante toda una época, de sus conflictos y sus diferencias, tanto sociales como culturales, de sus creencias y supersticiones, de sus miserias...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
"Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good. It was stated that he had reigned for seventeen years, and was the best king...
Fevered Measures
Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. The medical borders created by these...
by John M. Hart
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The anarchist movement had a crucial impact upon the Mexican working class between 1860 and 1931. John M. Hart destroys some old myths and brings new information to light as he explores anarchism's effect on the development of the Mexican urban working-class and agrarian movements. Hart shows how the...
by Chris Covert
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents the second volume of his 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...
by Chris Covert
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents the third volume of his 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...
by Chris Covert
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The fourth and last volume of a multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing the Mexican Drug War in 2012Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents the third volume of his non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico....
The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940–1976
Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression. As Benjamin T. Smith demonstrates in this history of the press and civil society, the cycle of violent repression and protest over journalism is...