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  • Watering the Revolution

    An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... Leer más

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  • A Day in the Life of the Maya: History, Culture and Daily Life in the Mayan Empire

    *Includes pictures of Mayan buildings, art, hieroglyphics, numbers, and more.*Explains integral parts of the Mayan empire, including their food, calendar, ball game, sacrifice rituals, and religion. *Examines the architecture of Mayan settlements and the structure of their empire. *Discusses the disappearance of the Maya and the way their culture has survived and evolved.*Includes a Table of ... Leer más

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  • Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    “Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library JournalMichael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz.The seventh edition incorporates new ... Leer más

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  • Survivors in Mexico

    de Rebecca West ...
    A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writersDame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition. West tackles the country's broad historical legacy—the ... Leer más

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  • Cortés and Montezuma

    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Leer más

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  • The End of Their World

    History and Historical Fiction, #15

    de Jason Wallace ...
    Series Libro 15 - History and Historical Fiction
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  • Deco Body, Deco City

    Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

    de Ageeth Sluis ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival, the revolution, in the absence of men, also prompted women to take up traditionally male roles, ... Leer más

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  • Mexico

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It 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 is less a neighbor than a sibling; no matter what our differences, it is intricately a part ... Leer más

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  • Human Rights in the Maya Region

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    In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors ... Leer más

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  • Home Grown

    Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

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  • Arredondo

    Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain

    In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served ... Leer más

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  • The Tyranny of Opinion

    Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere

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