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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristan, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristan discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if his...
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Don't just see the sights―get to know the people. The third-largest country in Latin America, Mexico is hugely diverse, having both rural backwaters where time seems to have stood still and manic urban centers like Mexico City, one of the most densely populated and exciting cities in the world. This complex and fascinating country is where European and American civilizations first clashed. The repercussions of the meeting in 1519 between the Spanish...
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“ This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.” -- Library Journal All Aboard-- first published in 1995, and here completely revised and updated-- is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. It will make any trip smoother and more enjoyable with its insightful travel trips and information about how railroads operate. With trains...
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Los Cabos is a colorful and beautiful area that can satiate your senses, enhance your intellect and simply leave you with a nourished soul. My experience while living in Los Cabos region has been a life changing experience. Every day is a new adventure. I found out that the Los Cabos people are a very happy, friendly, giving people. I feel that I know so much more about Los Cabos, the peoples of Los Cabos, and myself while living here over the years.
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Updated and expanded third edition!Grab your sombrero and follow along on this wild ride through Mexico as the author pet-sits for four different homeowners in four small villages over five months. From the cool, misty mountains of Central Mexico to the hot, humid beaches of the Mexican Riviera, get an inside look at the truth about cats and dogs, and the day-to-day fun and fuss of caring for them.Read about the dogs that cornered the possum on the...
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Over the past 35 years, hundreds of thousands of readers have agreed: This is the classic guide to "living, traveling, and taking things as they come" in Mexico. “The People's Guide to Mexico” still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.
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• Advice on planning your...
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En Contra el anexionismoJosé Antonio Saco analiza en 1848 la historia de los movimientos políticos que pretendían la anexión de Cuba a los Estados Unidos. A continuación citamos un fragmento de esta obra en que Saco identifica los orígenes del anexionismo en Cuba:
«En 1837 quedó Cuba enteramente esclavizada. Ni las cortes ni el gobierno, que la despojaron de todos sus derechos, cumplieron la promesa de darle instituciones especiales. Pasaba...
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In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, he challenges assumptions about gender relations and political culture in a patriarchal society. He also reflects on continuity and change between late colonial times and the present and suggests...
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Get the Summary of Jeff Guinn's War on the Border in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "War on the Border" by Jeff Guinn provides a detailed account of the complex and often tumultuous relationship between the United States and Mexico in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The narrative begins with the early interactions between the two nations following Mexico's independence from Spain and the subsequent territorial...
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Francisco Cervantes de Salazar escribió la Crónica de la Nueva España alrededor de 1560, por encargo del rey Felipe II. Sin embargo permaneció inédita hasta 1914. Esta obra destaca por sus datos sobre las culturas indígenas autóctonas, de gran valor antropológico, y por la visión que ofrece sobre la conquista y la gesta de Hernán Cortés.
-Además de su cercanía con la cultura mexicana, Cervantes de Salazar tuvo como referencias para este...
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La Relación de las cosas de Yucatán apareció hacia 1566. Es una obra de referencia para entender el mundo maya. En su madurez el sacerdote franciscano Diego de Landa se dedicó al estudio de dicha cultura.
Landa encontró similitudes entre el cristianismo y la religión maya, en lo concerniente a los sacrificios humanos y ofrendas de sangre. Asociando estas ofrendas con el carácter sacrificial de la figura de Cristo, que había dado su vida por...
13) The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How The Countryside Was Key To The Emergence Of Authoritarianism
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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 found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as microcosms of events...
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The period following Mexico's war with the United States in 1847 was characterized by violent conflicts, as liberal and conservative factions battled for control of the national government. The civil strife was particularly bloody in south central Mexico, including the southern state of Oaxaca. In Sons of the Sierra, Patrick McNamara explores events in the Oaxaca district of Ixtlan, where Zapotec Indians supported the liberal cause and sought to exercise...
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At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarization was more protracted,...
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La Memoria sobre la vagancia en Cuba, es ejemplo de una línea del pensamiento insular que reflexionó sobre los rasgos psicosociales del cubano. Tal idea interés fue una constante en las obras de los ideólogos criollos del siglo XIX marcadas por la pretensión de alcanzar un mejoramiento social. En la primera mitad de dicho siglo Félix Varela, José Antonio Saco, José de la Luz y Caballero y Domingo del Monte tuvieron un significativo interés...
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El Tratado de las supersticiones y costumbres gentílicas que hoy viven entre los indios naturales de esta Nueva España contiene los apuntes de un viaje impresionante por el norte de México en el siglo XVI, en el que Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, hermano del dramaturgo Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, se acerca a las costumbres nativas.
Para escribir su libro, Alarcón recorrió el golfo de California y alcanzó el río Colorado. Tuvo contacto con los aborígenes...
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Mexico's wars for independence were not fought to achieve political independence. Unlike their neighbors to the north, Mexico's revolutionaries aimed to overhaul their society. Intending profound social reform, the rebellion's leaders declared from the onset that their struggle would be incomplete, even meaningless, if it were merely a political event.
Easily navigating through nineteenth-century Mexico's complex and volatile political environment,...
19) Crónica mexicana
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Fernando de Alvarado Tezozómoc escribió dos crónicas:
-Esta Crónica mexicana, escrita en castellano hacia 1598, que relata la salida de Aztlan de los aztecas-mexicas y termina con el inicio de la conquista;
-y la Crónica mexicáyotl, compuesta en náhuatl en 1609, que relata las genealogías de los más altos pipiltin (nobles) mexicas, y exhibe sus méritos y derechos.
Crónica Mexicana se esfuerza particularmente en destacar las excelencias...
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Francisco Cervantes de Salazar escribió la Crónica de la Nueva España alrededor de 1560, por encargo del rey Felipe II. Apareció en forma de libro impreso en la tardía fecha de 1914. Esta obra destaca por sus datos sobre las culturas indígenas autóctonas, de gran valor antropológico, y por la visión que ofrece sobre la conquista y la gesta de Hernán Cortés.
Además de su cercanía con la cultura mexicana, Cervantes de Salazar tuvo como...
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