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Mexican Days (06 Edition)
by Cohan Publisher Comments Told with the intimate, sensuous insight and broad sweep that captivated readers of "On Mexican Time," this is both a celebration of the joys and revelations to be found in this inexhaustibly interesting country and a searching investigation of the...
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Villa and Zapata : a History of the Mexican Revolution (00 Edition)
by Frank Mclynn Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-439) and index....
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Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask
by Nick Henck Synopsis Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns...
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Mexican Politics: The Dynamics of Change
by Howard Handelman Publisher Comments This introduction traces the historical development of Mexico's political system. It puts into context current events such as the NAFTA accord, the Chiapas uprising, the economic crisis of 1994 and the downfall of a former president, and demands for...
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History of Mexico (05 Edition)
by Burton Kirkwood Publisher Comments This narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will help readers understand the lively and sometimes turbulent history of Mexico. Surveying Mexico from the arrival of the first humans in the Western Hemisphere to current issues at the turn of the new...
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Mexico: From Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910
by W Dirk Raat Publisher Comments The first classroom reader devoted exclusively to nineteeth-century Mexican history, this volume brings together twenty-six essays and primary documents treating Mexico's Age of Caudillos. The readings--many by Mexican politicians, historians, and...
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Mexico Architecture Interiors Design
by Mark Luscombe Publisher Comments - Mexico is a country steeped in a rich cultural heritage with a varied landscape and a vibrant fusion of styles evident in its architecture, interiors, and design. This combination of seductive photography and incisive text lays before us the exquisite...
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Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution (07 Edition)
by Elena Poniatowska Publisher Comments The photographs of Las Soldaderas and Elena Poniatowska's remarkable commentary rescue the women of the Mexican Revolution from the dust and oblivion of history. These are the Adelitas and Valentinas celebrated in famous corridos mexicanos, but whose...
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Setting the Virgin on Fire
by Marjorie Becker Publisher Comments In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his...
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Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez: 1893-1923
by David Dorado Romo Publisher Comments El Paso/Juarez served as the tinderbox of the Mexican Revolution and the tumultuous years to follow. In essays and archival photographs, David Romo tells the surreal stories at the roots of the greatest Latin American revolution: The sainted beauty queen...
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NTC's Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words
by Ntc Publisher Comments In 'NTC's Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words' De Mente explores the meanings of, and cultural context for, over 100 essential Mexican expressions, providing the reader with a map to the character and personality of the Mexican people....
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The Last Lords of Palenque
by Victor Perera Synopsis A journalist and anthropologist describe their stay among a Mexican Indian tribe descended from the Maya and recount what they learned of the Indian's mythology and culture....
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Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico
by Matthew Gutmann Publisher Comments Most studies on reproductive rights make women their focus, but in "Fixing Men, "Matthew Gutmann illuminates what men in the Mexican state of Oaxaca say and do about contraception, sex, and AIDS. Based on extensive fieldwork, this breakthrough study by a...
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Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (68 Edition)
by John Jr. Womack Review "The best piece of narrative history that has been written about modern Latin America in any language."--Ernest R...
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The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries
by Kevin Terraciano Publisher Comments “This is a work of very great importance, and its combination of cutting-edge research and readable style will likely make it a classic. Terraciano attempts to do for the Mixtecs what James Lockhart has accomplished for the Nahuas of central Mexico:...
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Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era
by Dennis Gilbert Publisher Comments Mexico's modern middle class emerged in the decades after World War II, a period of spectacular economic growth and social change. Though little studied, the middle class now accounts for one in five Mexican households. This path-breaking book explores...
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Xuxub Must Die : Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan (04 Edition)
by Paul Sullivan Publisher Comments Mayan rebels killed an American plantation manager in 1875, but no one has ever unravelled why this murder took place. Paul Sullivan's fascinating and skillful telling of this story reads like a mystery novel....
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Mexico :from Montezuma to NAFTA, Chiapas, and beyond
by Jaime Suchlicki Publisher Comments In this concise thousand-year history, one of the world's foremost scholars on Latin America explains how Mexico's dynamic present and future flow directly from its rich past....
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In the Sierra Madre
by Jeff Biggers Publisher Comments This groundbreaking and extraordinary memoir chronicles the astonishing history of one of the most famous yet unknown regions in the world. Based on his one-year sojourn among the Raramuri/Tarahumara, award-winning journalist Biggers uncovers the...
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Mexico Under Siege: Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism
by Donald Hodges Publisher Comments Mexico Under Siege is a readable and well-informed political history covering the period from the ruling PRI's lurch to the right in 1940 through to its eventual departure from office in the elections of 2000. Based on two decades of interview material...
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