Romance of History, Mexico(1909)
87円 Romance of History, Mexico(1909) is the timeless historical story written by Margaret Duncan Coxhead and illustrated in colour by J. H. Robinson, published by New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers ( 1909 ). …..All ages have their pervading spirit. In the fifteenth century it was, in Wes...
Heading into the Desert
1,723円 In a literary journey from the Sierra Madre to the sea, Júpiter Martínez guides us, between stories and scenes of daily life, through the astonishingand at times dangerousgeography of Sonora. This second volume in the series Archaeology in Extreme Conditions is a personal narrative that reveals f...
Día de los Muertos Pasión por la Vida
805円 Después de varios años de investigación, entrevistas y viajes a remotas comunidades p’urhépechas en Michoacán, Mexico, la autora Mary J. Andrade presenta “Día de los Muertos Pasión por la Vida” en formato electrónico. “Día de los Muertos Pasión por la Vida” contiene imágenes no vistas anteriormen...
The World of Lucha Libre
3,708円 The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters,...
Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata
4,637円 In Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata, Tanalís Padilla shows that the period from 1940 to 1968, generally viewed as a time of social and political stability in Mexico, actually saw numerous instances of popular discontent and widespread state repression. Padilla provides a detailed history of...
Alone Before God
4,637円 Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburba...
City of Suspects
5,300円 In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners’ letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the ...
Landscapes of Power and Identity
5,300円 Landscapes of Power and Identity is a groundbreaking comparative history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empireーthe Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia’s lowlandsーfrom the late colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth cent...
Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-...
5,300円 Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution agains...
Zapotec Women
5,300円 In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Te...
The Art of Being In-between
4,637円 In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her...
The Eagle and the Virgin
5,300円 When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the gove...
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