In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns, the need for labor, raw materials, resources, and foodstuffs brought together an array of different ethnic and social groups-Spaniards, Indians, Africans, and ethnically mixed individuals or c...
This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest. The author surveys what it means to be polygynous by comparing the practice in other cultures, past and present, and he uses its demographic consequences to flesh out this understudied topic in Aztec history. Polygyny provided Aztec women with opportunities for upward social mobility. It also led to increased migration to Ten...
Breve Historia de La Guerra Con Los E.U.
by Valades Jose and Jose C Valades
When Don Patterson's twenty-seven-year-old daughter turned to him for advice about her professional future, Patterson in turn reflected on his almost thirty-year experience working on major archaeological sites in Mexico and Central America. His autobiographical account examines his professional journey, the people and institutions that made it possible, and the decisions, both good and bad, that he made along the way. Patterson draws from ancient Mayan mythology, weaving the tale of Hunahpu and...
¿En qué momento una persona que busca un futuro profesional, la cura para una extraña enfermedad o simplemente la garantía de tener un plato en la mesa se convierte en un delincuente? ¿En qué momento acaba la persona y comienza el prejuicio? Tal vez cuando sus historias quedan en el olvido. Son trece los casos con los que Eileen Truax destruye el estigma que el miedo y la ignorancia ha construido alrededor de los inmigrantes mexicanos: un abogado, una fotógrafa y hasta un capitán de policía, ent...
Los Amos de La Mafia Sindical
by Francisco Cruz Jimenez and Francisco Cruz
The Catholic Church produced an enormous volume of written material designed to ensure the servility of nuns. Reading this body of proscriptive literature alongside nuns' own writings, Kirk finds that practice often diverged from theory. She analyzes how 17th- and 18th-century nuns formed alliances and friendships in defiance of Church authorities' efforts to contain and control them. In the Mexican convents that form the basis of Kirk's study, nuns developed a powerful, counterhegemonic spirit...
Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Under Diaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico's image as a backward, peripheral nation. The government cla...
Autumn 1519 / The Setting / The Wanderers / The City / The Empire / The Society / The Strangers / The Nation.
Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos-faith healers-who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outside the realm of "professional medicine," seemingly beyond the reach of the church, state, or certified health practitioners whose profession was still in its infancy. Urrea healed Mexicans, Indigenous people, and Anglos in northwestern Mexico and cities throughout the US Southwest, while Jaramillo conducted his healing practice in the South Texas Rio G...
La Luz de Mexico (Obras Completas de Octavio Paz, #510)
by Cristina Pacheco
"Reunites a selection of interviews with well-known artists that were published in the magazine Siempre of Mexico City between 1977-88. Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Feliciano Bejar, Fernando Botero, Pedro and Rafael Coronel, José Luis Cuevas, Manuel Felguérez, Gunther Gerzso, Mathias Goeritz, and Rufino Tamayo are among the subjects"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain
Ethnic rebellions continually disrupted the Pax Colonial, Spain's three-hundred-year rule over the Native peoples of Mexico. Although these uprisings varied considerably in cause, duration, consequences, and scale, they collectively served as a constant source of worry for the Spanish authorities. This meticulously researched volume provides both a valuable overview of Native uprisings in New Spain and a stimulating reevaluation of their significance. Running counter to the prevailing scholarly...
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest (Early Americas: History and Culture, #2)
by Gilda Hernandez Sanchez
The Spanish colonization dramatically interrupted the autonomous development of ancient Mesoamerican culture. Nevertheless, indigenous societies learnt to live with the conquest. It was not only a time of crisis, but also an extraordinarily creative time period in which material culture reflected indigenous peoples' varied responses and adaptations to the changing circumstances. This work presents insights into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous world by focusing on...
Return to Servitude, A: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancun
by M Bianet Castellanos
Pais de Un Solo Hombre: El Mexico de Santa Anna (Historia)
by Enrique Gonzalez Pedrero