Mexico category: 1477 books
by William H. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
The Aztec Empire was one of the most remarkable civilizations to have ever existed.
In 1519, Hernándo Cortés landed on the Gulf Coast, and two years later the Aztec civilization was a shadow of its former self.
The Spanish must have appeared invincible, with their Tlascalan allies,...
by Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
“Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library Journal
Michael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion...
by Gary Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Mexico’s capital city is an ancient gem. The city center is centered on the Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) and the historic Aztec Templo Mayor, can be found here. The Zocalo is the largest square in Latin America and the third largest in the world. As one of the largest cities in...
by William H. Beezley
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and...
The Cartels: The Story of Mexico's Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations and their Impact on U.S. Security
The Story of Mexico's Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations and Their Impact on U.S. Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
What can President Enrique Peña Nieto do to curb the narcotics-induced mayhem in Mexico, and what would be the consequences to the United States if he fails? This book analyzes Mexico's transition from a relatively peaceful kleptocracy controlled by the Tammany-Hall style Institutional Revolutionary...
by William Preston Stapp
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In late 1842, Private William Preston Stapp and about three hundred other citizens of the Republic of Texas took it upon themselves to invade Mexico. They intended to retaliate for a recent Mexican attack on San Antonio and to humiliate President Sam Houston, who had been hesitant to seek revenge. Stapp...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced the "war on drugs," an ongoing, low-intensity, asymmetrical war between the government and various drug cartels that has proven the bloodiest...
Rebel Mexico
Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Mexican Book Prize In the middle of the twentieth century, a growing tide of student activism in Mexico reached a level that could not be ignored, culminating with the 1968 movement. This book traces the rise, growth, and consequences of Mexico's "student problem" during...
by Michael Johns
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Mexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Daz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zcalo, the city's traditional center, to western suburbs where they sought to imitate European and American ways...
In the Shadow of Saint Death
The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the notorious Gulf Cartel, their deadly war with their former allies Los Zetas, the cartel's...
by Mac Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Mac Patrick, Pacific Northwest rigger and motorcycle enthusiast describes...An Adventure of a Lifetime! Mexico On A Motorcycle is the result of a 17,358 mile Motor Tour that the author took on a BMW R 1200 GS into the heart of Mexico.
This eBook, coming soon to print-on-demand, features travel...
Mexico - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Culture Smart! Mexico takes you to the heart of Mexican society. It describes how people socialize and meet members of the opposite sex, the dynamics of daily life, the central importance of family, and the annual cycle of Catholic feasts and fiestas. For business travelers there are key sections...
A Flock Divided
Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped to create a broad and remarkably inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Matthew D. O’Hara describes how religious thought...
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal,...