Mexico category: 1477 books
by Elliott Young, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against...
Rural Revolt in Mexico
U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1998
Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico...
by Carl Franz, Lorena Havens
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Over the past 35 years, hundreds of thousands of readers have agreed: This is the classic guide to "living, traveling, and taking things as they come" in Mexico. Now in its updated 14th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information,...
by Zain Deane
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
A complete guide to the populous Mexican capitol and surrounding areas.
Welcome to Mexico City, the oldest city in the Americas and one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Zain Dean introduces you to its unique mix of ancient empire and modern, sophisticated society: “If you’re...
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil
Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Latin America’s two largest democracies. Rafael de la Dehesa focuses on the ways that LGBT activists have engaged with the state, particularly...
Wars Within War
Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Traditional characterizations of the 1846–1848 war between the United States and Mexico emphasize the conventional battles waged between two sovereign nations. However, two little-known guerrilla wars taking place at the same time proved critical to the outcome of the conflict. Using information...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico. It is easy to assume that emotions are a given, unchanging aspect of human psychology. But the emotions we feel reflect the times in which we live....
by Lawrence Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The road between Tucson, Arizona, and Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, runs straight and true. Slicing through miles of rolling desert and faraway blue mountains, it could be just another fast way to get from here to there. But if the traveler has a taste for adventure and time to spare, this road can be...
Deco Body, Deco City
Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival,...
Culture and Revolution
Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of those who participated in it, while the enigmas of the revolution remained obscured. Demonstrating how textuality helped to define the revolution, Culture and Revolution examines dozens of seemingly ahistorical...
Family Secrets
Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
“My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them,” confides ‘Elisa’, a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file clerks and movie...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Crime has played a complicated role in the history of human social relations. Public narratives about murders, insanity, kidnappings, assassinations, and infanticide attempt to make sense of the social, economic, and cultural realities of ordinary people at different periods in history. Such stories...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This is a professionally-formatted, free flowing ebook reproduction of unique, up-to-date guides produced by the Department of Defense that provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Mexico, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military...