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The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780804730396 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the early 1890's, an armed rebellion fueled by religious fervor erupted over a wide area of northwestern Mexico. At the center of the outburst were a few hundred farmers from the village of Tomochic and a teenage folk saint named Teresa, who was ministering to thousands of people throughout the area. When the villagers proclaimed, "We will obey no one but God ," the Mexican government exiled "Santa Teresa" to the United States and trained its guns and bayonets on the farmers. A bloody confrontation ensued--God against government--that is still remembered in song, literature, films, and...
In the early 1890's, an armed rebellion fueled by religious fervor erupted over a wide area of northwestern Mexico. At the center of the outburst were...
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155,56 zł |
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The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780804730389 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the early 1890's, an armed rebellion fueled by religious fervor erupted over a wide area of northwestern Mexico. At the center of the outburst were a few hundred farmers from the village of Tomochic and a teenage folk saint named Teresa, who was ministering to thousands of people throughout the area. When the villagers proclaimed, -We will obey no one but God , - the Mexican government exiled -Santa Teresa- to the United States and trained its guns and bayonets on the farmers. A bloody confrontation ensued--God against government--that is still remembered in song, literature, films, and...
In the early 1890's, an armed rebellion fueled by religious fervor erupted over a wide area of northwestern Mexico. At the center of the outburst were...
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643,19 zł |
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Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development
ISBN: 9780842024396 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This reissue of Prof. Vanderwood's groundbreaking study-available again for the first time in a decade-examines bandits, police, and Mexican politics as a whole, showing how different groups used the agents of order and disorder to serve their interests. Originally published in 1981, Disorder and Progress was subsequently revised and updated in 1992. Added to the enlarged 1992 edition and included here in this reissue are the entirely new introduction, material on the period of the independence wars and on Pancho Villa, and an updated bibliography. This book also incorporates additional data...
This reissue of Prof. Vanderwood's groundbreaking study-available again for the first time in a decade-examines bandits, police, and Mexican politics ...
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223,86 zł |
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Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort
ISBN: 9780822347026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Satan s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town Satan s Playground, unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and...
Satan s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico ...
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124,44 zł |
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Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint
ISBN: 9780822334156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican folk saint. In his mortal incarnation, Juan Soldado was Juan Castillo Morales, a twenty-four-year-old soldier convicted of and quickly executed for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Olga Camacho in Tijuana in 1938. Immediately after Morales s death, many people began to doubt the evidence of his guilt, or at least the justice of his brutal execution. People reported seeing blood seeping from his grave and hearing his soul cry out protesting...
Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican...
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124,44 zł |
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Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort
ISBN: 9780822346913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Satan s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town Satan s Playground, unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and...
Satan s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico ...
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492,77 zł |
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Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint
ISBN: 9780822334040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican folk saint. In his mortal incarnation, Juan Soldado was Juan Castillo Morales, a twenty-four-year-old soldier convicted of and quickly executed for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Olga Camacho in Tijuana in 1938. Immediately after Morales s death, many people began to doubt the evidence of his guilt, or at least the justice of his brutal execution. People reported seeing blood seeping from his grave and hearing his soul cry out protesting...
Paul J. Vanderwood offers a fascinating look at the events, beliefs, and circumstances that have motivated popular devotion to Juan Soldado, a Mexican...
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461,64 zł |
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