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The Mexican Revolution has long been considered a revolution of peasants. But Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato’s investigation of the mill towns of the Orizaba Valley reveals that industrial workers played ……続きを見る

Compañeras is the untold story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades. Gathered here ……続きを見る

Teotihuacan, il tema di questo libro, è uno degli enigmi più appassionanti del Mesoamerica. Per capire però Teotihuacan bisogna andare molto indietro nel tempo e analizzare la figura del Serpente Pi……続きを見る

Using new archaeological data from four major cities of the Classic Maya world, this book explores how gender, age, familial and community memories, and the experience of living in an urban setting ……続きを見る

Historians have traditionally approached North America through the lens of the nation-state rather than from a continental perspective. While acknowledging that the geographic vastness and historica……続きを見る

Tratar de entender el proceso de la conquista del imperio azteca, es adentrarse en uno de los episodios más fabulosos y tristes de la historia de la humanidad. Es bien conocido que los españoles lid……続きを見る

Trying to understand the conquest of the Aztec Empire entails penetrating one of the most fabulous and sad episodes of the history of mankind. It is well known that the Spaniards, led by Hernan Cort……続きを見る

Tratar de entender el proceso de la conquista del imperio azteca, es adentrarse en uno de los episodios más fabulosos y tristes de la historia de la humanidad. Es bien conocido que los españoles lid……続きを見る

Trying to understand the conquest of the Aztec Empire entails penetrating one of the most fabulous and sad episodes of the history of mankind. It is well known that the Spaniards, led by Hernan Cort……続きを見る

¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on……続きを見る

From the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States took ownership of the land from the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico to the Pacific Coast of ……続きを見る

Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2004 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2003 In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nu……続きを見る

Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth throug……続きを見る

Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978 In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a……続きを見る

This book concerns the aesthetic, political, and socio-political aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. Tourists seeking "authenticity" buy crafts and festival t……続きを見る

Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the……続きを見る

Hiram Hoyt Richmonds Montezuma is a mixture of narrative and epic poetry recalling the story and fate of the famous Aztec leader, Montezuma, whose empire was conquered by the Spanish under conquista……続きを見る

Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award Winner Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth c……続きを見る

The history of Mexico is spoken in the voice of ordinary people. In rhymed verse and mariachi song, in letters of romance and whispered words in the cantina, the heart and soul of a nation is reveal……続きを見る

This is a biographical pairing of two of the greatest conquerors in human history, drawing its inspiration from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Like Plutarch, the purpose of the pairing is not primarily ……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Jüdisches Leben in Wort und Bild" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1836……続きを見る

Incluye audio del autor.Un recorrido visual alrededor de mil objetos con los cuales el pueblo y la sociedad porfiriana celebraron los 100 años de la Independencia de México. El lector encontrará vas……続きを見る

The first-ever English translation of the memoirs of botanist and naturalist Karl Heller This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring A……続きを見る

Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spani……続きを見る

Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the walls of convents was meant by the ch……続きを見る

The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and th……続きを見る

Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepecーthe lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexicoーfor the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied……続きを見る

The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. Its multiethnic inhabitants influenced, and were inf……続きを見る

Bordering upon the United States on the extreme southwest, for a distance of more than two thousand miles, is a republic which represents a civilization possibly as old as that of Egypt; a land, not……続きを見る

Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels, newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and eng……続きを見る