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Author: Rae Bains
Publisher: Troll Communications Llc
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780816728268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the life of the Mexican president who instituted many social reforms and led his country in a war of independence.
Author: Rae Bains
Publisher: Troll Communications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the life of the Mexican president who instituted many social reforms and led his country in a war of independence.
Author: Patrick J. McNamara
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1469606720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 influence over statewide and national politics. Two Mexican presidents had direct ties to Ixtlan district: Benito Juarez, who served as Mexico's liberal president from 1858 to 1872, was born in the district, and Porfirio Diaz, president from 1876 to 1911, had led a National Guard battalion made up of Zapotec soldiers throughout the years of civil war. Paying close attention to the Zapotec people as they achieved greater influence, McNamara examines the political culture of Diaz's presidency and explores how Diaz, who became increasingly dictatorial over the course of his time in office, managed to stay in power for thirty-five years. McNamara reveals the weight of memory and storytelling as Ixtlan veterans and their families reminded government officials of their ties to both Juarez and Diaz. While Juarez remained a hero in their minds, Diaz came to represent the arrogance of Mexico City and the illegitimacy of the "Porfiriato" that ended with the 1910 revolution.
Author: Isabel Schon
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780810830578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn aid for librarians and teachers interested in exposing students in kindergarten through high school with an understanding and appreciation of the people, history, and art and political, social, and economic problems of Central and South American countries, and Latino-heritage people in the United States.
Author: Ulick Ralph Burke
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dennis Denenberg
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780810828469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombines creative activities with a comprehensive list of biographies written for children. Organized by age group: pre-school (ages 3-5), primary (6-8), intermediate (9-11), and young people (12-14).
Author: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0226792730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature, architecture, music, popular language, art, and public health to investigate the city in a variety of contexts: as a living history textbook, as an expression of the state, as a modernist capital, as a laboratory, and as language. Tenorio’s formal imagination allows the reader to revel in the free-flowing richness of his narratives, opening startling new vistas onto the urban experience. From art to city planning, from epidemiology to poetry, this book challenges the conventional wisdom about both Mexico City and the turn-of-the-century world to which it belonged. And by engaging directly with the rise of modernism and the cultural experiences of such personalities as Hart Crane, Mina Loy, and Diego Rivera, I Speak of the City will find an enthusiastic audience across the disciplines.
Author: Robert Buffington
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780803213029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico explores elite notions of crime and criminality from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In Mexico these notions represented contested areas of the social terrain, places where generalized ideas about criminality transcended the individual criminal act to intersect with larger issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality. It was at this intersection that modern Mexican society bared its soul. Attitudes toward race amalgamation and indios, lower-class lifestyles and läperos, women and sexual deviance, all influenced perceptions of criminality and ultimately determined the fundamental issue of citizenship: who belonged and who did not. The liberal discourse of toleration and human rights, the positivist discourse of order and progress, the revolutionary discourse of social justice and integration sought in turn to disguise the exclusions of modern Mexican society behind a veil of criminality?to proscribe as criminal those activities that criminologists, penologists, and anthropologists clearly linked to marginalized social groups. This book attempts to lift that veil and to gaze, like Josä Guadalupe Posada, at the grinning calavera that it shields.
Author: Enrique Krauze
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 1998-06-03
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 9780060929176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power.
Author: John Kenneth Turner
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.
