Mexico category: 1477 books
Occupying Our Space
The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award Winner
Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Journalists played a significant role in...
El Chingonario
Uso, reuso y abuso del chingar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2011
El chingonario es un diccionario del verbo mas usado en Mexico: chingar. Aquí se podrán encontrar palabras y expresiones derivadas del mismo, así como su definición y nuevas invenciones con las que se puede jugar. Cada definición se acompaña con ejemplos en los que, si bien, cualquier parecido...
The Art of Being In-between
Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her...
by Colin M. MacLachlan
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Their empire unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs were poised on the brink of a golden age, when the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Colin MacLachlan explains why Mexico is culturally Mestizo while ethnically Indian and why Mexicans remain orphaned from their indigenous heritage—the adopted children of European history.
Orozco
The Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
On August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five “horse thieves.” One of them, it turned out, was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was he a desperado or a hero? Orozco’s death proved as controversial as his storied life, a career of mysterious contradictions...
Ciudad Juárez
Saga of a Legendary Border City
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Juárez is no ordinary city. Its history is exhilarating and tragic. Part of the state of Chihuahua and located on the border with the United States opposite El Paso, Texas, Juárez has often captured the world’s attention in dramatic fashion.
In Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border...
Hispanicism and Early US Literature
Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States.
In Hispanicism and Early US Literature, author John C. Havard posits that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elements...
The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa
Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In The Man Who Wrote Pancho...
Gender and the Mexican Revolution
Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Stephanie Smith examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women shaped...
Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You
Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the manuscript painting is a singular document of indigenous response to Spanish conquest. Examining...
The Lawyer of the Church
Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Mexico’s Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.
The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican...
In the Shadow of Cortés
Conversations Along the Route of Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Five hundred years ago, the army of conquest led by Hernan Cortés marched hundreds of miles across a rugged swath of land from Veracruz on the Mexican Caribbean to the capital city of the Aztecs, now Mexico City. This journey was the catalyst for profound cultural and political change in Mesoamerica....
The Peyote Effect
From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance of this cactus and drug, Alexander S. Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding...
by David Poole
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
"Práxedis G. Guerrero, anarchist, militant, propagandist, poet and secretary to the ‘Junta Organizadora del Partido Liberal Mexicano’ was the first Mexican anarchist to give his life for Land and Liberty, when he was killed, at the early age of only 28, during an attack on the town...