Mic - Mexico 1

Né au Mexique en 1914 et décédé dans sa capitale en 1998, Octavio Paz est l’une des figures majeures de la littérature latino-américaine du XXe siècle. Poète, essayiste et dramaturge, il fit très tô……続きを見る

The history of the Mexican Army’s activity in the Texas Revolution is well documented but often hidden away. Many important primary sources have been lost or destroyed, but an impressive amount of p……続きを見る

Step into the heart of Mesoamerican myth and legend with The Illustrated Popol Vuh, a vivid retelling of the sacred narrative of the K'iche' Maya. Known as the "Book of the People," the Popol Vuh pr……続きを見る

An innovative historical analysis that draws upon performance and theatre studies to stage the ruination and demise of the eighteenth-century Mexican Jesuits Inventories of Ruin dramatizes the ruina……続きを見る

Exploring the sexual lives of the poor and working class in turn-of-the-century Mexico This social history explores the romantic and sexual lives of the poor and working class in Mexico City during ……続きを見る

Découvrez ce qu’était la civilisation mexicaine et aztèque avant sa conquête par les conquistadors. Quels étaient le capital intellectuel et matériel de l’empire mexicain, à quelle hauteur morale il……続きを見る

Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversia……続きを見る

La conquête du Mexique fait partie des grands évènements de l’histoire du nouveau monde. Le merveilleux proprement dit, l’intervention du ciel, l’historien ou le poète n’ont pas à l’imaginer pour la……続きを見る

The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Albán until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lin……続きを見る

As guerrilla groups sprouted up across Mexico in the early 1970s, the military and police routinely resorted to extreme acts of violence, including the systematic use of torture. In The Last Door, G……続きを見る

Maize is the world’s most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food……続きを見る

An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperity Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca is a timely feminist ethnography set in a Pentecostal c……続きを見る

This book offers answers to essential questions about the border between the United States and Mexico and connected issues that are accessible to readers interested in immigration, border security, ……続きを見る

What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlandsーand how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is a……続きを見る

In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be ……続きを見る

This text focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America from the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century to the present. Providing a balanced perspective, it presents both the Unit……続きを見る

In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Verac……続きを見る

In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country’s booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social com……続きを見る

Jalisco 1910-2010 completa el proyecto editorial de conmemoraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia y el Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana, en fechas coincidentes de dos siglos del México mo……続きを見る

12 autores jalisciences contemporáneos recuperan la anécdota y traen sus lectores los acontecimientos interesantes, curiosos, célebres o inusitados de Jalisco durante la centuria que va del inicio d……続きを見る

The Huichols (or Wixárika) of western Mexico are among the most resilient and iconic indigenous groups in Mexico today. In the Lands of Fire and Sun examines the Huichol Indians as they have struggl……続きを見る

¿Qué pasó en Ayotzinapa? Es la pregunta que surgió el 26 de septiembre de 2014, que no encuentra una respuesta satisfactoria pese a la intervención de actores de distintas instancias, niveles y naci……続きを見る

Amazon #1 best seller. Two of the most important cities in North America are so physically close they would touch were they not separated by a wall at the US-Mexico border. That border has been a fl……続きを見る

This book by a noted Ph.D. historian is one of the best books available about historical relations between the United States and Mexico. It shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico ……続きを見る

Esta obra empieza antes de la Independencia, en 1805, con la fundación del Diario de México, y culmina en 1913, cuando la mayoría de los escritores modernistas respaldaron el cuartelazo de Victorian……続きを見る

Con motivo de la doble conmemoración de 1810 y 1910, Christopher Domínguez Michael entrevistó –para la revista Letras Libres y la serie de televisión La Conquista– a algunos de los más importantes e……続きを見る

Para intentar esta “biografía” del emperador Moctezuma, Michel Graulich parte de la pregunta: ¿es posible escribir la vida de una personalidad precolombina, reconstruir su historia en el sentido que……続きを見る

L’isthme de Panama est une étroite bande de terres se trouvant entre la mer des Caraïbes et l'océan Pacifique, reliant l'Amérique du Sud et l'Amérique du Nord. On a longtemps pensé qu'il s'était for……続きを見る

Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago’s steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, ……続きを見る

Mexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zócalo,……続きを見る