Mexico category: 1477 books

The first reference work of its kind, this volume on the United States-Mexican War encompasses the decade of the 1840s, focusing on the war years of 1846-1848. More than a dozen maps were drawn for this book, some of which depict major regions and localities over which armies of both nations moved...

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. The crowds keep coming to Los Cabos as much to relax on its beaches and in its spas as to golf on its courses and sail or fish its waters. Well-rounded Los Cabos has more to offer...

Accompanied by photography and political art, this powerful compilation of testimonies from longtime organizers, artists, housewives, journalists, students, teachers, and others who participated in the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca provides a raw, honest look at the 2006 Oaxaca protests...

Le vicende del colonnello Antonio Carlos Morales, sono intrecciate a quelle di Antonio de Padua Maria Severino Lopez, meglio conosciuto come Santana, un generale e politico messicano, presidente del paese, nonché dittatore.Antonio e Santana, sin da giovani erano stati molto amici, provenienti entrambi...

Cancun Brochure – Interactive Wifi City Guide This is a live interactive search guidebook with over 3200 preset searches the net for everything about the city; no typing and never out of date. You can search events, restaurants, hotels, golf courses, whale tours and sports, everything that is happening...

A los ojos de la atención pública la historia de las fuerzas armadas nacionales parece terminarse después de la Revolución con Manual Ávila Camacho, el último presidente militar. Sin embargo, de entonces a esta fecha el ejército ha sido una fuerza viva e influyente en México que, en buena...

La libertad, antónimo de la esclavitud, fue el objectivo esencial de vida de aquellos seres humanos sometidos a tan aberrante práctica. Distintas fueron las formas que, tanto ellos y quienes por motivos diversos los alentaron, usaron para obtener su propósito, que a fin de cuentas era ineludible....

La historia de Cartagena es, en cierto modo, la de Colombia. Hay largas épocas durante las cuales Colombia no tiene más historia que la de Cartagena. Falta, la obra que recoja y totalice con secuencia cronológica, todos aquellos episodios memorables y conocidos hasta hoy, que forman el conjunto...

Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a third...

Un homme accompagne une inconnue dans un pays inconnu dans le seul but d’écrire le récit d'un voyage. Roman auto-fictif écrit en 1999 à partir des notes prises durant un séjour de trois semaines au Mexique. Tout est vrai, ou presque.

Industrial workers, not just peasants, played an essential role in the Mexican Revolution. Tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the Orizaba Valley, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato argues convincingly that the revolution cannot be understood apart from the Industrial Revolution, and thus provides a fresh perspective on both transformations.

Das Studium der prähispanischen Gesellschaften konzentriert sich nicht nur auf ihre bemerkenswertesten Aspekte wie die technologischen Entwicklungen, militärischen Heldentaten, politischen Ereignisse und wirtschaftlichen Erfolge, sondern auch auf die eher alltäglichen Erscheinungen, durch die ihre...

This is a biographical pairing of two of the greatest conquerors in human history, drawing its inspiration from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Like Plutarch, the purpose of the pairing is not primarily historical. While Plutarch covers the history of each of the lives he chronicles, he also emphasizes...

Este libro se alza no sólo en contra de la historiografía oficial-aquella que, con su elenco de héroes, villanos, prejuicios ideológicos y coartadas legitimadoras dominó y continúa dominando el horizonte cultural de México-, sino también contra esas historias monolíticas que, en su afán...