Mexico category: 1477 books
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA
Development, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA provides the only book-length study of the impact on residents of the US-Mexico border of NAFTA's Environmental and Labor Side Accords, which required each state to enforce labor and environmental regulations. Through field research in Matamoros, Tamaulipas,...
by William H. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Mexico's rich culture has long fascinated scholars, with stories of ancient civilizations and great conquerors. History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) expounds upon the virtues of Mexico while seeking to explain the tragedy of the country's defeat in terms of its neighboring civilizations. The arrival...
by Ben Fallaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's...
The Provincial Deputation in Mexico
Harbinger of Provincial Autonomy, Independence, and Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Mexico and the United States each have a constitution and a federal system of government. This fact has led many historians to assume that the Mexican system of government, established in the 1820s, is an imitation of the U.S. model. But it is not. First published in Spanish in 1955 and now translated...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication is a history of the first deployment of the U.S. Army's entire air force, the 1st Aero Squadron, for an active campaign in Mexico.On March 15, 1916, the 1st Aero Squadron arrived at...
Mapping the Megalopolis
Order and Disorder in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing...
Origins of the War with Mexico
The Polk-Stockton Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the spring of 1846 James K. Polk announced that the Mexican Army had invaded United States territory and had “shed American blood upon the American soil.” This political rhetoric, as Glenn W. Price establishes in Origins of the War with Mexico: The Polk-Stockton Intrigue, is part of the myth...
Made in Mexico
Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there...
Mexico's Supreme Court
Between Liberal Individual and Revolutionary Social Rights, 1867-1934
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Although Mexico’s Constitution of 1917 mandated the division of large landholdings, provided land for the landless, and guaranteed workers the rights to organize, strike, and bargain collectively, it also guaranteed fundamental liberal rights to property and due process that enabled property owners...
The Making of the Mexican Border
The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The issues that dominate U.S.-Mexico border relations today—integration of economies, policing of boundaries, and the flow of workers from south to north and of capital from north to south—are not recent developments. In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores...
Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico
Defining Racial Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within...
Apostle of Progress
Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico’s development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary...
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico
Three Texts in Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious belief. During the second half of the eighteenth century, Spain’s Bourbon dynasty sought to tighten its control over New World colonies, reform imperial...
by James D. Huck Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This single volume reference resource offers students, scholars, and general readers alike an in-depth background on Mexico, from the complexity of its pre-Columbian civilizations to its social and political development in the context of Western civilization.
• Explains how Mexico's modern...