Mexico category: 1477 books

In this book, Dan Stanislawski studies the geography of various small towns in one Mexican state. He discusses the factors—landscape, buildings, culture groups, and so forth—that create a unique personality for each of these towns.

In 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed the king. Overnight, Hispanics were forced to confront modernity and look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. Coronado focuses on how Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.

In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of French intruders who had settled on lands claimed by the Spanish crown. Lola Orellano Norris has identified sixteen manuscript copies of de León’s meticulously...

Conflict, domination, violence—in this wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades, these three phenomena register the pulse of a diverse, but inequitable and discriminatory, social order. Drawing on rich and varied historical sources, Illades guides the...

No se trata aquí de una investigación, de una encuesta como la que está llevando a cabo Enrique Florescano, ni de un experimento de laboratorio como el que emprendió Pierre Nora. Por cierto, Pierre Nora es directamente responsable (involuntario) de este libro, con la complicidad de Marisol Loaeza,...

Obra acerca de tres movimientos con relativa concordancia cronológica, que movilizaron a gran escala, efectivos similares sobre espacios comparables en diferentes contextos geográficos, étnicos, culturales (religión, cultura, política), pero en una situación común de fronteras agro-extractivas en expansión, las estepas y el Ural, el Alto Perú, el Bajío y el Occidente mexicano.

 A 30 page book of the History, and Step-by-Step instructions for touring this 460+ year old Spanish Colonial city.  The booklet has lots of historic and full color pictures, and is suitable for saving as a souvenier. 

A fifty page booklet of the history of San Miguel de Allende from the settlement through the War for Independence with lots of historic pictures. 

A 56 page coffe table style guidebook with the history of the State, and instructions for driving around the state of Hidalgo with stops in: Huichapan, Alfajayucan, Zimápan, Ixmiquilpan, Tula de Allende, Teotihuacán, Pachuca, Mineral del Chico, Real del Monte, Atotonilco El Grande, Metztitlan, Molongo...

A 56 page coffe table style guidebook with the history, and instructions for driving the state of Michoacán with stops in: Ihuatzio, Tzintzuntzan, Santa Clara del Cobre, Pátzcuaro, Janitzio, Zrahuén, Santiago Tingambato, Uruapan, Paricutín, and Paracho with lots of historic and full-color pictures.  

A twenty eight page book that serves as your personal guide to these Mexican sports events. Describing the tradition, the culture, and the mechanics of the events to promote understanding of them. 

 A 56 page, coffee table style book with the complete, bloody history of the Mexican Revolution 1910-1921, with lots of great historic pictures. 

Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it can answer this...

Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. This clear and concise text extends our understanding with a critical narrative analysis of key case studies: the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution; the 1944–1954 Guatemalan Spring; the 1952–1964 MNR-led revolution...