Mexico category: 1477 books
L'évangélisation des Indiens du Mexique
Impact et réalité de la conquête spirituelle (XVIe siècle)
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2015
La conquête de Mexico par Hernán Cortés en 1521 conduit à l’établissement de l’autorité du roi d’Espagne sur tout le pays et ouvre la conquête des âmes. Nombre de religieux franchissent l’océan atlantique afin de convertir les populations indigènes. Mais comment les Indiens du Mexique...
Energopolitics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...
Ecologics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...
I am Action
Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
“Praxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited.” —Ricardo Flores Magón
Born into a wealthy family in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1882, there was little indication that Praxedis G. Guerrero would evolve...
Haciendas and Economic Development
Guadalajara, Mexico, at Independence
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Agriculture, commerce, and mining were the engines that drove New Spain, and past historians have treated these economic categories as sociological phenomena as well. For these historians, society in eighteenth-century New Spain was comprised, on the one hand, of creoles, feudalistic land barons who...
by Salvador Novo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In "The War of the Fatties," a campy, tongue-in-cheek retelling of an episode from the Mexican "Trojan War," naked fat women from Tlatelolco discombobulate Tenochtitlan's invading army by squirting them with breast milk. Told with satiric allusions to the policies and tactics used by Mexico's current...
The Open Invitation
Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Open Invitation explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and activist video. Schiwy analyzes activist videos from the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatista’s Other Campaign, as well as collaborative and community video from the Yucatán. Schiwy argues that transnational activist...
Rebellious Nuns
The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the walls of convents was meant by the church to be mysterious. Great care was taken to prevent the "scandal" of factionalism in the nunneries...
Frontiers of Evangelization
Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The Spanish crown wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized and, to that end, facilitated the establishment of missions by various Catholic orders. Focusing on the Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda in Northern New Spain (Mexico) and the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos...
by Robert Brown
Language: French
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Suivez les aventures d'un couple de Québécois et leurs deux enfants à Cuernavaca, une ancienne ville coloniale située à 85 km au sud de Mexico. Pendant deux ans, ils y ont vécu des situations parfois cocasses, parfois formatrices, lesquelles vous feront rire et même réfléchir. Découvrez...
by Michel Chevalier
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Découvrez ce qu’était la civilisation mexicaine et aztèque avant sa conquête par les conquistadors. Quels étaient le capital intellectuel et matériel de l’empire mexicain, à quelle hauteur morale il était parvenu, quelle en était la condition religieuse ? « Ce que Cortez et ses compagnons...
Profundo como el silencio
El Titanic y la Revolución Mexicana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2016
En abril de 1912, en el Atlántico Norte, el trasatlántico más grande de la historia, el Titanic, se encuentra con su destino al chocar con un iceberg. El vapor alemán Frankfurt, es una de las embarcaciones que ha recibido la señal de auxilio y cambia de rumbo para...
by John Womack
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution....
Álvaro Obregón
Fuego y cenizas de la Revolución Mexicana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Centrada sobre todo en la gestión de Obregón como líder triunfante, como presidente y como caudillo, esta biografía profundiza en temas como los conflictos políticos internos y externos que él tuvo que enfrentar. Inteligencia, astucia, voluntad de mando y momento histórico decisivo se juntan...