Mexico category: 1477 books

THE FAIR GOD OR, THE LAST OF THE ’TZINS A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico NOTE BY THE AUTHOR. A personal experience, though ever so plainly told, is, generally speaking, more attractive to listeners and readers than fiction. A circumstance from the tongue or pen of one to whom it...

Un México encadenado de odios será un Mexico subdesarrollado. El México optimista e industrioso es el que puede pensar que su pasado indígena y español es plataforma y no lastre. El México grandioso dejará de ser un sueño cuando los mexicanos, todos, sintamos orgullo de ese pasado. El drama...

El breviario del Nuevo Mundo chronicles the author's encounter with the Indians of the Orinoco and trips to the Andean volcanoes, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico.

Después de varios años de investigación, entrevistas y viajes a remotas comunidades p’urhépechas en Michoacán, Mexico, la autora Mary J. Andrade presenta “Día de los Muertos Pasión por la Vida” en formato electrónico. “Día de...

LA CONTAMINACION AMBIENTAL NO ES SOLAMENTE BASURA Por primera vez se explica una verdad que algunos probablemente conocen, pero nadie se ha atrevido a revelarla. Existe un tipo de contaminacin ms nociva, precursora de la contaminacin ambiental que los gobiernos mundiales combaten. La contaminacin...

Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands plumbs the archaeological record for what it can reveal about the creation of personal and communal identities in the Maya world. Using new primary data from her excavations at the sites of Yaxuna, Chunchucmil, and Xuenkal, and new analysis of...

Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of Cortés? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, "The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races … to this we owe our soul." Because Sierra recognized the dual...

Young men ride horses on a dusty main road through town. Cars and gas stations gradually intrude on the land, and, years later, curiosity shops and cantinas change the face of Mexican border towns south of Arizona. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as centers of...

Cities arose independently in both the Old World and in the pre-Columbian New World. Lacking written records, many of these New World cities can be studied only through archaeology, including the earliest pre-Columbian city, Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of the largest cities of its time (150 B.C. to A.D....

In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital...

Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of “sex” or “sexuality” equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this innovative ethnohistory, Pete Sigal seeks to shed...

Maize is the world’s most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How...

Silver mining was a hot topic in the mid nineteenth century, with one discovery following another in the western United States. Across the border in Mexico the mines were much older, and not being worked with the modern methods of US mining. This is a mid nineteenth century tour of some of those mines.

Idée d'itinéraire au Mexique - Dans les pas de Frida Kahlo est un court extrait du beau livre Ulysse Les 50 plus beaux itinéraires autour du monde. Il suggère brièvement un itinéraire de 11 jours, au mois de mars, de Mexico à Puerto Vallarta, en passant par Teotihuacan et la ville de San Miguel de Allende.