Mexico category: 1477 books
by Angela Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A room locked for fifty years. A valuable peacock ring. A mysterious brother-sister duo. Paloma Marquez is traveling to Mexico City, birthplace of her deceased father, for the very first time. She's hoping that spending time in Mexico will help her unlock memories of the too-brief time they spent...
by Walt K. Moon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! ¡Hola! Take a trip to Mexico and find out what makes this country special. Learn about the food, animals, and culture of the United States' southern neighbor with full-color photographs,...
How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture
Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A public art movement initiated by the postrevolutionary state, Mexican muralism has long been admired for its depictions of popular struggle and social justice. Mary K. Coffey revises traditional accounts of Mexican muralism by describing how a radical art movement was transformed into official culture,...
by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Now available in ePub format.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Mexico City will lead you straight to the very best the city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide and map is the perfect pocket-sized...
The Logic of Compromise in Mexico
How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files...
From the Source - Mexico
Authentic Recipes From the People That Know Them the Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Lonely Planet presents Mexico's most authentic dishes, direct from the kitchens where they were perfected.
From street-food vendors to Michelin-starred chefs, Mexico's best local cooks share their passion for food and 60 of their region's classic recipes - from steaming sopa de lima to zesty,...
by Jocelyn H. Olcott, Robyn Wiegman, Inderpal Grewal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women’s political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as conservative and antirevolutionary, Jocelyn Olcott shows women activists challenging prevailing...
Stand Up and Fight
Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970–1984
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In 1975 a watershed moment captivated Mexico as indigenous peoples from across the country came together on the Island of Janitzio for the First National Congress of Indigenous Peoples. The congress was a federal government initiative intended to preempt an independent indigenous movement. But indigenous...
Street Democracy
Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active...
by Katherine Elaine Bliss, Sarah A. Buck, Stephanie E. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing...
by Philip F. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Before the tragedy of the Civil War tore the United States in two, America was involved in another war, one that has not received nearly the attention it deserves. In fact, the Mexican-American War, 18461848, could arguably be called the training ground for the Civil War a little over a decade later.
Author...
Limits to Friendship
The United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican and American political analysts on the complex relationship between their countries.
Few nations are as closely interrelated as the United States and Mexico. Few relationships between nations are so prickly. America's inveterate problem-solving...
by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on the anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, physicians,...
Migrating Faith
Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Daniel Ramirez's history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azusa Street Revival. The Pentecostal phenomenon--characterized by ecstatic spiritual practices that included speaking in tongues, perceptions of miracles,...