Mexico category: 1477 books
Women Who Live Evil Lives
Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society...
Subcommander Marcos
The Man and the Mask
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion...
River of Hope
Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a delightful group of fellow fern aficionados—mathematicians, poets, artists, and assorted botanists and birders—he embarks on an exploration of Southern...
Dying to Live
A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Book will be published on May 1st, 2008, the third anniversary of “A Day Without A Mexican,” the major national immigrant protests. The complex topic of immigration becomes a visceral experience for the reader through the telling of one man’s story, and his ultimate death. Congress will likely...
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
Myth and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2010
Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women warriors—heroines, camp followers, Amazons, coronelas, soldadas, soldaderas, and Adelitas—indicate their ambivalent position within Mexican society. In...
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism
Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887–1934
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
In Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios investigates how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca, a region known for its distinct indigenous cultures and vibrant religious life, during the turbulent period of modernization in Mexico that extended from the...
God's Middle Finger
Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the...
Brides of Christ
Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Brides of Christ invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. Lavrin provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
For decades, Stafford Poole has stood at the forefront of scholarship on the historicity of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon that serves as one of the most important formative religious and national symbols in the history of Mexico. Poole’s groundbreaking first edition of Our Lady of Guadalupe was...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Juan Zurita followed Aurelio Hererra as one of the fine boxers of Mexican ancestry. A native of Guadelajara Zurita trained in Pennsyvlania. Two of his most noted bouts were against Beau Jack, a former New York N.B.A. lightweight champion, and Ike Williams, who fought Zurita for the N.B.A. lightweight...
The U.S.-Mexican Border Today
Conflict and Cooperation in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Systematically exploring the dynamic interface between Mexico and the United States, this comprehensive survey considers the historical development, current politics, society, economy, and daily life of the border region. Now fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the history...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
This work describes the profound changes to Yucatán’s society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico’s economy. The editors have assembled contributions from seasoned “Yucatecologists”—historians, geographers, cultural students, and an economist—to chart the...
Pesos and Politics
Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The relationship between business and politics is crucial to understanding Mexican history, and Pesos and Politics explores this relationship from the mid-nineteenth century dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz through the Mexican Revolution (1876–1940). Historian Mark Wasserman argues that throughout...