F.F - Mexico 1

L’autrice racconta l’esistenza drammatica di Eugenia de Montijo – contessa spagnola andata in sposa a Napoleone III, l’ultima imperatrice dei francesi – e Carlotta del Belgio, moglie di Massimiliano……続きを見る

In 1519, two men from worlds that should never have met stood face to face. One was Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador driven by gold and God. The other was Montezuma, the divine emperor of the m……続きを見る

An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca. Chapulines (toasted grasshoppers) are not a delicacy in Oaxaca. They are just foodーgood foodーand a prot……続きを見る

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects built by the government in Mexico City mirrored the c……続きを見る

As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocc……続きを見る

2025 Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication Award, SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference) How the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role i……続きを見る

Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical tri……続きを見る

Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a preeminent student of the Maya, made many breakthroughs in deciphering Maya writing, particularly in demonstrating that the glyphs record the deeds of actual human beings, ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2023 Robert M. Utley Award Finalist for the 2023 David J. Weber Book Prize Named a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In The Forgotten Diaspora Travis Jeffres explores how Native M……続きを見る

"The bloodsucking bat, construction of bows and arrows, the punishment for adultery among the Apaches... all was grist that dropped into the industrious mill of Father Pfefferkorn's eyes, ears, and ……続きを見る

Alfred Oscar Coffin (1861-1933), born in Mississippi, was a college professor best known for being the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. in biology, earned in 1889 from Illinois Wesleyan Univ……続きを見る

In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and ……続きを見る

Friedrich Schillers Werk 'Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs' ist ein Meisterwerk historischer Literatur, das die komplexen politischen und religiösen Konflikte des 17. Jahrhunderts einfühlsam be……続きを見る

Mexico's revolution of 1910 ushered in a revolutionary era: during the twentieth century, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Iranian revolutions shaped local, regional, and world hist……続きを見る

Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. Chronologically organized chapters facilitate the bo……続きを見る

Between 1932 and 1934, José Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's m……続きを見る

The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontieri……続きを見る

For decades, Stafford Poole has stood at the forefront of scholarship on the historicity of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon that serves as one of the most important formative religious and national……続きを見る

A principios de 1925, y a partir de la colaboración entre comunistas mexicanos y estadunidenses, surgió en México la Liga Antimperialista de las Américas (LADLA), una organización impulsada por la I……続きを見る

In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and religious lifeーand, for the Catholic clergy of New ……続きを見る

A public art movement initiated by the postrevolutionary state, Mexican muralism has long been admired for its depictions of popular struggle and social justice. Mary K. Coffey revises traditional a……続きを見る

As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocc……続きを見る

Since 1989 an indigenous political movementーthe Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)ーhas governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, J……続きを見る

A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.DMexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of ……続きを見る

In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. H……続きを見る