10,765円 Created in Tepechpan, a relatively minor Aztec city in Central Mexico, the Tira de Tepechpan records important events in the city's history from 1298 through 1596. Most of the history is presented pictographically. A line of indigenous year signs runs the length of the Tira, with images above the...

6,566円 **The contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan. Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2005** Since the 1930s, archaeologists h...

260円 Hernan Cortes conquered the land we now know of as Mexico - ruled by the mighty and feared Aztec Empire, with less than 500 men and a few horses and cannon. What was his secret weapon? A 17 year old slave girl named Malinalli, who would be come to be known as La Malinche.

933円 The charismatic former president of Mexico offers a candid and provocative perspective on the state of world affairs. As president of Mexico, Vicente Fox brought true democracy to the country after seven decades of one party rule. Elected as a political outsider with a message of honesty, change,...

2,254円 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, Morocco to Mongolia. But how did this tasty hand-held food--and Mexican food more broadly--become so ubiq...

149円 Bernal Diaz was an eyewitness to one of history's most remarkable events - the conquest of the Empire of the Aztecs, and the defeat of their Emperor Montezuma. The indomitable Diaz delivers his chronicle first-hand, vividly describing the ruthless battles, the brilliant Machiavellian strategies o...

1,723円 Lhomme précolombien a donné aux aliments une importance vitale mais aussi et surtout une place primordiale dans sa culture. Des produits comme le maïs, le haricot, la cour­gette, le cacao et le piment trouvent leur origine en Mésoamérique et font partie du patrimoine cultu­rel de lhumanité. Ce ca...

12,269円 The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Ch...

4,400円 Stumbling Its Way through Mexico records the early attempts by the Moscow-based Communist International to organize and direct a revolutionary movement in Mexico. The period studied, from 1919 to 1929, was characterized at the beginning by a wave of revolutions in Europe that the Bolsheviks expec...

5,942円 The Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 is among the world’s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastesーcommercial and amateur, national and i...

327円 Un regreso en el tiempo, con entrevistas a viejos zapatistas que narran la verdadera lucha de Emiliano Zapata. ¿Sabemos realmente quién fue Emiliano Zapata? ¿La historia, el cine y la literatura han hecho justicia a su verdadero espíritu luchador? Lya Gutiérrez, a través de una serie de entrevist...

496円 Silver mining was a hot topic in the mid nineteenth century, with one discovery following another in the western United States. Across the border in Mexico the mines were much older, and not being worked with the modern methods of US mining. This is a mid nineteenth century tour of some of those...