Teotihuacan (Fideicomiso Historia de las Americas: Ciudades)
by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, graduates of the U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterrey's ideal defensive position inspired more than one U...
When Someone You Love Becomes a Memory, The Memory Becomes A Treasure
by Death Desings
Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala, Volume 1 (Monumenta Archaeologica, #33)
Since emerging as armed insurgency group from Mexico's Lacandon Jungle in 1994, the Zapatistas have constantly shifted their strategic focus in response to changing political conditions in Mexico. Their latest initiative is the Other Campaign, so named to indicate their opposition to and disdain for the Presidential electoral politics happening at
Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array of literary artifacts, from works by journalists such as Elena Poniatowska and Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez to the Zapatista communiques to Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and 2666, this examinati...
This volume counters the stereotype that Indian women are without history. Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active participants in society and critically influenced the direction history would take. This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest and colonial Mexico.
Columbus arrived on North American shores in 1492, and Cortes had replaced Moctezuma, the Aztec Nahua emperor, as the major figurehead in central Mexico by 1521. Five centuries later, the convergence of ""old"" and ""new"" worlds and the consequences of colonization continue to fascinate and horrify us. In Transcending Conquest, Stephanie Wood uses Nahuatl writings and illustrations to reveal Nahua perspectives on Spanish colonial occupation of the Western Hemisphere. Mesoamerican peoples have...
Chiapas - Puebla (Constitutions of the World from the Late 18th Century to the, #2)
"El velo de la impunidad es una red que lo cubre todo en Tenancingo,Tlaxcala, esa pequeña porción de tierra en donde los proxenetas han hecho de su > un negocio familiar y rentable a expensas de niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes que, engañadas o secuestradas, sucumben ante promesas de amor; y más tarde, victimizadas y ultrajadas, terminan sometidas por miedo a perder algo más que su dignidad. Los testimonios permiten observar, con lupa, la radiografía de una práctica ilícita que a fuerza de costumbr...
Obras de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Diferencias)
by Sor Juana in Cruz
The Mexican Revolution produced some romantic and heroic figures. In Mexico at the time, however, one man loomed large as the embodiment of revolutionary goals and the one leader able to take the country from strife into peace. That man was Alvaro Obregon. Less well-known to North Americans than his contemporaries and sometime allies Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, Obregon eventually formed the first stable government of post-revolutionary Mexico. Stories of his daring and near-invincibility a...
Lacandonia Al Filo del Agua (Seccion de Obras de Antropologia)
by Xochitl Leyva Solano
Without History
On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred during a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. The members of Las Abejas, who are pacifists, pledged their support to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a primarily indigenous group that has declared war on the state of Mexico. The massacre has been attributed to a paramilitary group composed of ordinary citizens acting on their own, although eyewitnesses claim...
Shake It Down! a Tribute to Gabino Rodriguez - The Maracas Kid
by Ruben P Salazar
Entre El Control y La Movilizacion (Estudios Historicos, H/241)
by Vanesa E Teitelbaum