Mexico category: 1477 books
Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico
Manuel Lozada and La Reforma, 1855-1876
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The political conflict during Mexico's Reform era in the mid-nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class. As Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico develops the story of this struggle, the role of one key rebel, Manuel Lozada, comes...
Yesterday in Mexico
A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W. F. Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico’s emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told—by letting events speak for themselves, without...
by Pablo Escalante, Bernardo García Martínez, Luis Jáuregui
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 12, 2013
A New Compact History of Mexico es una versión no sólo nueva sino innovadora, ya que sus textos fueron preparados especialmente para esta edición por siete académicos distintos de los autores que escribieron A Compact History of Mexico. Esta obra conserva la intención de ofrecer conocimiento...
Independent Mexico
The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d’état, these...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the political-military insights offered by the Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 10 March 1916 to 5 February 1917. This thesis uncovers these insights by examining how Major...
The History of Mexico
From Pre-Conquest to Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. The book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from...
Hotel Mexico
Dwelling on the '68 Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
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 country’s rapid but uneven modernization. In the same year, a street-savvy democratization movement...
by Deborah Toner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
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 engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810...
Living with Oil
Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
For decades, Mexico has been one of the world’s top non-OPEC oil exporters, but since the 2004 peak and subsequent decline of the massive offshore oilfield—Cantarell—the prospects for the country have worsened. Living with Oil takes a unique look at the cultural and economic dilemmas in this locale,...
Indigenous Media in Mexico
Culture, Community, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
In Indigenous Media in Mexico, Erica Cusi Wortham explores the use of video among indigenous peoples in Mexico as an important component of their social and political activism. Funded by the federal government as part of its "pluriculturalist" policy of the 1990s, video indígena programs...
Seen and Heard in Mexico
Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were...
The INS on the Line
Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different. Here, they confronted a set of political, social, and environmental obstacles that prevented them from replicating their achievements on Angel Island...
British Lions and Mexican Eagles
Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889–1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men. At the center of his global business empire were his interests in Mexico. While Pearson's extraordinary success...
Routes of Compromise
Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
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 Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local,...