Mexico category: 1477 books
Opening Mexico
The Making of a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters
Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through...
Mexico Behind the Mask
A Narrative, Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
In light of current events related to immigration issues, the drug war along the border, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Beldon Butterfield's insightful and informative history of the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States is both timely and useful.Butterfield...
Exiles and Citizens
Spanish Republicans in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Mexico was the only country to offer open refuge to the thousands of Republican emigrés who fled from Spain in 1939–1940. Exiles and Citizens is a study of these political exiles, especially those with intellectual and professional backgrounds and ambitions. It...
Mexico
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are intertwined. Mexico has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties, or illegal drugs. It...
Jenkins of Mexico
How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country energized by...
by Stephen A. Carney
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The Mexican War altered the United States and its history. During eighteen months of fighting, the U.S. Army won a series of decisive battles, captured nearly half of Mexico's territory, and nearly doubled the territories of the United States. Initially, three U.S. Army forces, operating independently,...
by Dr Eileen Ford
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City traces the transformations that occurred between 1934 and 1968 in Mexico through the lens of childhood. Countering the dominance of Western European and North American views of childhood, Eileen Ford puts the experiences of children in Latin America...
by Lonely Planet, Brendan Sainsbury, Kate Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Mexico is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gather all your senses and dive head-first into the ancient Maya world at exquisite...
Two Nations Indivisible
Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately...
¡Tequila!
Distilling the Spirit of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Italy has grappa, Russia has vodka, Jamaica has rum. Around the world, certain drinks—especially those of the intoxicating kind—are synonymous with their peoples and cultures. For Mexico, this drink is tequila. For many, tequila can conjure up scenes of body shots on Cancún bars and coolly garnished...
Mexico's Uneven Development
The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Mexico and the United States may be neighbors, but their economies offer stark contrasts. In Mexico’s Uneven Development: The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality, Oscar J. Martínez explores Mexico’s history to explain why Mexico remains less developed than the United States. Weaving...
by Julie Meade
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Baroque palaces and energetic streets, old-school taquerías and contemporary art: experience this beguiling metropolis with Moon Mexico City.
Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity with color-coded maps or follow a self-guided walk through Mexico City's most interesting neighborhoods
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
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by William Edward Cole
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Iron ore is widely distributed over the world and has been mined from ancient times, but Mexico, with a good supply of ore, was a relative newcomer to the ranks of iron- and steel-producing nations. This distinctive book offers a history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the 1960s.Archaeological...