Mexico category: 1477 books
No Word for Welcome
The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec—the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico—for the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied land, a place Mexicans call their country's “little waist,” a place long known for its strong women,...
Burnout -- How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith
Burnout to Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Burnout -- How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith is Book 1 in the Burnout to Bliss series.
A professional woman experiences extreme burnout and existential crisis at the same time. She tries to feel better with self-medication like alcohol, drugs, and sex, but she gets no relief. She is shot...
The World of Lucha Libre
Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters,...
by Richard Hauser
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Are you visiting Guadalupe Valley and would like to find out about the different Valle De Guadalupe wineries, Baja wine tours and other popular activities in the area? Whether you simply want to know where to taste the best Mexican wine or are looking for a culinary adventure off the beaten path in...
La civilización maya
(versión ilustrada)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
La divinización de la naturaleza que proviene del chamanismo precolombino impregnaba toda la religión maya.
Los antiguos mayas se dedicaban a las ciencias del calendario para dominar mejor las fuerzas de la naturaleza.
Describamos después la Cuenta de los Destinos, el primer calendario (mas antiguo)...
by Katie Hickman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus – Big Top, clowns, elephants and all – where cheap, torn materials and tarnished sequins are transformed into nights of glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle, she soon...
San Juan Bautista
Gateway to Spanish Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site...
by Richard Arghiris
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Take a plunge off Mexico’s Caribbean coastline and marvel at the coral and plants that have been popular with divers since the 1960s. Trek inland and visit Mayan ruins immersed in ancient forests. Stop briefly at the popular sites in Uxmal and Tulum, but stay as long as you like at the lesser-known...
Building Yanhuitlan
Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing...
Open Borders to a Revolution
Culture, Politics, and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Open Borders to a Revolution is a collective enterprise studying the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought. It marks both the bicentennial of Latin America’s independence from Spain and the...
Translation as Conquest
Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing...
Sins against Nature
Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three...
Translated Christianities
Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
"Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good. It was stated that he had reigned for seventeen years, and was the best king...