Mexico category: 1477 books
The Ancient Maya and Their City of Tulum
Uncovering the Mysteries of an Ancient Civilization and Their City of Grandeur
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Discover the ancient Maya civilization and one of their most popular toured ancient ruined cities of Tulum, Mexico in this detailed guidebook. Th e Ancient Maya and Th eir City of Tulum: Uncovering the Mysteries of An Ancient Civilization and Th eir City of Grandeur, is an easy to read comprehensive...
Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca
Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico;...
by William J. Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
...to Witchcraft - A 30 page booklet about the practice of witchcraft in Mexico now and in the past. Implements, herbs, and spells used in Mexican witchcraft told by a 50 year resident. A 30 Page booklet about these spirits from production to imbibing. The History surrounding the discovery and modern production.
Hartwood
Bright, Wild Flavors from the Edge of the Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
**Winner, IACP Cookbook Award for Culinary Travel
Named a Best & Most Beautiful Cookbook of the Year by Bon Appétit, Cooking Light, Departures, Fine Cooking, Food52, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vice, Yahoo!,...
Le Mexique Précolombien
Récit de voyage
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2015
(récit intégral de 250 pages : existe aussi en version illustrée déclinée en 2 tomes: Voyage au Mexique : à la rencontre des Toltèques et des Aztèques (tome 1: 200 pages et 70 photos) ou Voyage en pays Maya : du Chiapas au Yucatan (à paraître).
Que reste-t-il réellement des Toltèques,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization. The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent...
In the Name of El Pueblo
Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The term “el pueblo” is used throughout Latin America, referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to “the people” as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and historical analysis of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, Paul K. Eiss explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo...
Negotiation within Domination
New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the consequences of colonial rule. This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation.
As Transnational Indians in the North American West...
Twilight of the Mission Frontier
Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768-1855
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new...
A Rain of Darts
The Mexica Aztecs
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This book was the first serious scholarly attempt in nearly a century to put in narrative form the exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire. Although many native sources, often in translations with scholarly...
A Perfect Gibraltar
The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary...
by Paul Garner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation...
The Return of the Native
Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century...