Mexico category: 1477 books
The Cross and the Compass
Freemasonry and Religious Tolerance in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The present book is an effort to understand the role of masonry in the introduction of freedom of worship in Mexico. With erudition, the author leads us through the stages ending with the victory of the liberal republic, headed by Benito Jurez, and the establishment thereby of freedom of worship,...
Alone Before God
The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2002
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban...
No Mere Shadows
Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada family—a mother, three daughters, and a...
by J Abbot, J Draper
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
These two pieces, published in 1868, shortly after the execution of Maximilian are good examples of the attitudes of Americans during the period shortly after the American Civil War. The French Expedition to Mexico gives a brief account of the events leading to the crowning of Maximilian, and Maximilian gives a brief biography of the emperor and his short reign.
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book is aimed at companies experienced in overseas trade which are new to doing business with Mexico. You may be an exporter looking to sell directly to Mexican customers or through an agent or distributor in that country. Alternatively, you may be planning to set up a representative office,...
by Steven B. Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels...
Yankee Don't Go Home!
Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexican and U.S. political leaders, business executives, and ordinary citizens shaped modern Mexico by making industrial capitalism the key to upward mobility into the middle class, material prosperity, and a new form of democracy--consumer democracy....
Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years. Drawing on several years of in-depth research, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, two of the foremost experts on the Mexican economy, examine Mexico's current...
United States and Mexico
Ties That Bind, Issues That Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
This binational reference for U.S. and Mexican policymakers presents the interrelated issues of Mexican immigration to the United States and Mexico's economic and social development. Differences in economic growth, wages, and the employment situation between two countries are critical determinants of...
The History of Capitalism in Mexico
Its Origins, 1521–1763
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from its inception, or was it essentially feudal, as traditional historiography viewed it? In this pathfinding study, Enrique Semo offers a fresh vision: that...
by Vivien Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The lure of isolated beaches rimmed with palm trees brought John Huston to Puerto Vallarta in the 1960s to film Night of the Iguana. His cast included Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. While working, the two fell in love. Their story became one of the great love stories of that century.This romance...
The Manuscript Hunter
Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known...
Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation With Octavio Paz in Cuernavaca, Mexico 1983 with Nobel Prize Lecture
ISSN Vol 1, No. 4 Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Melinda Camber Porter's conversation with Octavio Paz took place in August 1983 at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Camber Porter traveled to Mexico to write an article on the John Huston filming of Under the Volcano (novel by Malcolm Lowery) for The Times (London). She took this opportunity to also...
Visions of the Emerald City
Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone),...