Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492 2019)
by Serge Gruzinski
Report to the King (American University Studies, Series 9: History, #3)
by John S Leiby
Space and Place in the Mexican Landscape
by Fernando Nunez, Carlos Arvizu, and Ramon Abonce
Metaphysical conceptions have always influenced how human societies create the built environment. Mexico - with its rich culture, full of symbol and myth, its beautiful cities, and its evocative ruins - is an excellent place to study the interplay of influences on space and place. In this volume, the authors consider the ideas and views that give the constructed spaces and buildings of Mexico - especially, of Queretaro - their particular ambience. They explore the ways the built world helps peop...
The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period-as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out, focusing first on the household-buildings, lots, household saints-and expanding outward toward the householders and the greater community. The internal focus of this book provides a comprehensive picture of indigenous society, exploring the categories by which...
This collection of English and Spanish articles brings together the latest scholarship on Mexican unrest by researchers in both the United States and Mexico. The contributors use the economic, social and cultural situations in Mexico throughout its history to explain the varied and complex nature of rebellions and other upheavals. The essays are organised in three sections: part one, "The Colonial Era", includes articles interpreting rebellions of the 17th and 18th centuries as sophisticated att...
Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseno, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portr...
Obras Completas, VIII (Vida y Pensamiento de Mexico)
by Jess Reyes Heroles and Jesus Reyes Heroles
i Viva Mexico! is not merely a history of Mexico; it portrays not just one nation, but the many nations that make up what we call Mexico today. In the author's hands, the country's history fairly pulses with political and religious intrigue, geographical and cultural conflict and linguistic and geological turmoil. Great characters spring to life in its pages: Cortez, Villa, Montezuma, Zapata and others. Brilliant photographs accompany the text, portraying the magnificent landscape, architecture...
The Limits of Liberty (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)
by James David Nichols
The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the "mobile peoples" who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Even though there were many efforts on the part of the United States and Mexico...
