They Should Stay There (Latin America in Translation/en Traduccion/em Traducao)
by Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso
Here, for the first time in English—and from the Mexican perspective—is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth century's mos...
Breve Historia de Jalisco (Historia)
by Jos' Mar-A Muri, Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, and Jose Maria Muria Rouret
This single volume reference resource offers students, scholars, and general readers alike an in-depth background on Mexico, from the complexity of its pre-Columbian civilizations to its social and political development in the context of Western civilization.How did modern Mexico become a nation of multicultural diversity and rich indigenous traditions? What key roles do Mexico's non-Western, pre-Columbian indigenous heritage and subsequent development as a major center in the Spanish colonial e...
Historical Dictionary of Mexico (Historical Dictionaries of the Americas, #21)
by Donald C. Briggs
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The Border and Beyond (International Migration Policy Issues)
by Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Mary Ann Larkin
Cholula (Fideicomiso Historia de las Americas)
by Patricia Plunket Nagoda and Gabriela Urunuela Ladron de Guevara
Daily Life of the Aztecs (Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History) (The Daily Life Through History)
by David Carrasco and Scott Sessions
Examine the fascinating and often controversial details of the daily lives of the ancient Aztecs through this innovative study written from the perspective of the history of religions. The Aztec people come to life for students, teachers, and interested readers through the exploration of the ceremonial character of their social and symbolic imagination. Insights into the communities they created, the games they played, the education they received, the foods they harvested, and the songs they san...
Relaci N de Las Cosas de Yucat N (Juan de La Cuesta Hispanic Monographs. Series Ediciones Crit)
by Diego De Landa
The Merits and Last Testament of Conquistador Andres de Tapia
by Levi Villarreal
From Many, One looks at the educational policies and practices of the presidency of Plutarco ElA-as Calles in post--revolutionary Mexico. Andrae Marak examines attempts of the Calles government to centralize control over education in the U.S.--Mexican borderlands region and to transform its rural and indigenous inhabitants into more "mainstream" Mexicans. During his presidency and the period known as the Maximato, Plutarco Elias Calles put in place a series of national educational policies with...
Proudly British Everyday Except on Cinco de Mayo
by Proud Nationality Cinco de Mayo
The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New Worlds greatest ancient civilization. In these pages, Professor Coe distils a lifetimes scholarship for the general reader and student. The eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological and epigraphic research, which continues to proceed at a fast pace. Among the finest new discoveries are the spectacular polychrome murals of Calakmul, which provide archaeological evidence for the importance of marketpl...
Tlacotalpan, La Virgen de La Candelaria y Los Sones (Historia)
by Ricardo P'Rez Montfort, Leopoldo Zea, and Ricardo Perez Montfort
Entre El Lujo y La Subsistencia (Estudios Historicos, H/201)
by Enriqueta Quiroz
Un lugar sagrado, a sacred place where two or more are gathered in the name of community, can be found almost anywhere and yet it is elusive: a charro arena behind a rock quarry, on the pilgrimage trail to Chimayo, a curandero's shrine in South Texas, or at a binational Mass along the border. Sagrado is neither a search for identity nor a quest for a homeland but an affirmation of an ever-evolving cultural landscape. Embedded at the heart of this remarkable book, in which prose, photographs, a...