Mexico category: 1477 books
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Mexico City (Mexico) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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The Mexican Heartland
How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuries
The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Rough Guides Snapshot Mexico: The Yucatán is the ultimate travel guide to the region. It leads you through the Yucatán with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, covering everything from the Chichén Itzá Maya site to the top places to snorkel around...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Let us guide you on every step of your travels.
From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, Insight Guide Mexico is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Mexico, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like Chichén Itzá, the...
by Abby Clawson Low
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
This stylish, gorgeously photographed guide to Mexico City will help you get the most out of this vibrant, culturally rich destination—or make you want to plan a trip!
Vast and exciting, Mexico City has so much to offer, from museums to markets, architectural wonders to Aztec monuments. This...
by Liam White
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Robert Mitchum was one of the most charismatic stars of the ‘classic Hollywood’ era. His screen persona was the essence of cool: tough but vulnerable, accepting of his fate with languid charm and easy humour. His films have often been seen through the lens of film noir, but they had something else...
A Social History of Mexico's Railroads
Peons, Prisoners, and Priests
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Largely absent from our history books is the social history of railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico, which promoted rapid economic growth that greatly benefited elites but also heavily impacted rural and provincial Mexican residents in communities traversed by the rails. In this beautifully...
Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico
The Sequence of Technological Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Prehistoric farmers in Mexico invented irrigation, developed it into a science, and used it widely. Indeed, many of the canal systems still in use in Mexico today were originally begun well before the discovery of the New World. In this comprehensive study, William E. Doolittle synthesizes and extensively...
Mexico's Evolving Democracy
A Comparative Study of the 2012 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In 2012, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)—which had governed Mexico with an iron grip for 71 years before being ousted in 2000—was surprisingly returned to power. In Mexico's Evolving Democracy, a team of distinguished political scientists delivers an exceptional analysis of the remarkable...
by Hugo G. Nutini, Jean F. Nutini
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Evangelical Christianity is Mexico's fastest-growing religious movement, with about ten million adherents today. Most belong to Protestant denominations introduced from the United States (e.g., Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists), but perhaps as many as 800,000 are members of homegrown, "native"...
Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico
The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul von Hintze, 1912-1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911 to serve as Germany’s ambassador to a country in a state of revolution. Germany’s emperor Wilhelm II had selected Hintze as his personal eyes and ears in Mexico (and concomitantly the neighboring United States) during the portentous...
México Beyond 1968
Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
México Beyond 1968 examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. The massacre of students in Mexico City in October 1968 is often considered the defining moment of this period. The authors in this volume challenge the centrality of...
by John Kenneth Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
American historians preoccupied with the stirring events of the Mexican Revolution and the years following tend to neglect the basic causes of the conflict. John Kenneth Turner—a crusading California newspaperman—presents these causes with brilliance and passion in Barbarous Mexico, his exposé of...
Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico
Men, Women, and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women-preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter-and the elites' desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy. The three key figures of nineteenth-century Mexico-Antonio...