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The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927
ISBN: 9780822322160 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Worm in the Wheat is a compelling tale of political intrigue, violence, shifting allegiances, extreme poverty, and the recalcitrance of one woman. Above all, it is a multileveled interpretation of the Mexican revolution and the ultimate failure of agrarian reform. Timothy J. Henderson recounts the story of Rosalie Evans, a woman who lost her life defending her Mexican hacienda in defiance of confiscation decrees. This dramatic narrative is populated with many diverse actors: Mexican, British, and American officials, soldiers, rebel leaders, bureaucrats, peasants, vigilantes, and...
The Worm in the Wheat is a compelling tale of political intrigue, violence, shifting allegiances, extreme poverty, and the recalcitrance of one...
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119,02 zł |
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The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy
ISBN: 9780822322382 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1994 the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Neil Harvey combines ten years of field work in Chiapas with extensive historical and political research to provide a comprehensive history of conflict in this region and a nuanced analysis of this rural uprising against federal bureaucracy and landed elites.
Beginning with an exploration of the history of ethnic and class conflict in Chiapas since the Conquest, Harvey moves specifically to trace the development of peasant and indigenous organizations in Chiapas since the early 1970s.... In 1994 the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Neil Harvey combines ten years of field work...
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119,02 zł |
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Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan
ISBN: 9780822322825 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico Jennie Purnell reconsiders peasant partisanship in the cristiada of 1926 29, one episode in the broader Mexican Revolution and the last major popular rebellion in Mexican history. While some scholars have argued that the Mexican Revolution was a people s rebellion that aimed to destroy the political and economic power of the elites to the benefit of the peasants, others claim that the Revolution was a struggle between elites that left little room for popular participation. Neither approach, however, explains why...
In Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico Jennie Purnell reconsiders peasant partisanship in the cristiada of 192...
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440,04 zł |
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Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871
ISBN: 9780822325277 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House--the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In "Containing the Poor" Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, showing how the asylum functioned primarily to educate white orphans instead of suppressing mendicancy and exerting control over the multiracial community for whom it was designed.
For a nation that had traditionally regarded the needy as having the... In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House--the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new wo...
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491,82 zł |
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Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871
ISBN: 9780822325611 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House--the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In "Containing the Poor" Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, showing how the asylum functioned primarily to educate white orphans instead of suppressing mendicancy and exerting control over the multiracial community for whom it was designed.
For a nation that had traditionally regarded the needy as having the... In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House--the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new wo...
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124,19 zł |
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Images at War: Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019)
ISBN: 9780822326434 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance. So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to "Images at War, "his" "striking reinterpretation of the Spanish colonization of Mexico." "Concentrating on the political meaning of the baroque image and its function within a multicultural society, Gruzinski compares its ubiquity in Mexico to our modern fascination with images and their meaning."
"Although the baroque... If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and wri...
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113,84 zł |
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Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019)
ISBN: 9780822326533 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance. So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to "Images at War, "his" "striking reinterpretation of the Spanish colonization of Mexico." "Concentrating on the political meaning of the baroque image and its function within a multicultural society, Gruzinski compares its ubiquity in Mexico to our modern fascination with images and their meaning."
"Although the baroque... If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and wri...
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440,04 zł |
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Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
ISBN: 9780822327189 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume s contributors historians, popular writers, anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics weigh in on a wealth of topics...
During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other stat...
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139,72 zł |
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City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931
ISBN: 9780822327479 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "City of Suspects" Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners' letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the paradoxes of repressive policies toward crime, the impact of social rebellion on patterns of common crime, and the role of urban communities in dealing with transgression on the margins of the judical system.
By investigating postrevolutionary examples of corruption and organized crime,... In "City of Suspects" Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previousl...
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124,19 zł |
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City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931
ISBN: 9780822327509 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of the complex moral interpretations crime was given by Mexico's urban poor and of the evolving institutional responses to crime and punishment in modern Mexico.
An analysis of the complex moral interpretations crime was given by Mexico's urban poor and of the evolving institutional responses to crime and punis...
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460,75 zł |
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Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
ISBN: 9780822327585 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cardenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico s urban and rural labor in the Yucatan region during the regime of Lazaro Cardenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused political analysis to reexamine and dispel long-cherished beliefs about the Cardenista era.
For historical, geographical, and ethnic reasons, Yucatan was the center of large-scale land reform after the Mexican Revolution. A long-standing revolutionary tradition, combined with a harsh division... Cardenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico s urban and rural labor in the Yucatan region during the regime of Laza...
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440,04 zł |
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Cardenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatan
ISBN: 9780822327677 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cardenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico s urban and rural labor in the Yucatan region during the regime of Lazaro Cardenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused political analysis to reexamine and dispel long-cherished beliefs about the Cardenista era.
For historical, geographical, and ethnic reasons, Yucatan was the center of large-scale land reform after the Mexican Revolution. A long-standing revolutionary tradition, combined with a harsh division... Cardenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico s urban and rural labor in the Yucatan region during the regime of Laza...
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108,66 zł |
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Blood, Ink, and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition
ISBN: 9780822329084 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political transformations of our time. In this compilation of essays, Bartra thinks through these transformations by tracing the complex interplay between popular culture, nationalist ideology, civil society, and the state in contemporary Mexico.
Written with verve over a period of twenty years, these essays most translated into English here for the first time suggest why Bartra has become one of Latin America s leading public intellectuals. The essays... Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political tran...
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440,04 zł |
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Blood, Ink, and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition
ISBN: 9780822329237 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political transformations of our time. In this compilation of essays, Bartra thinks through these transformations by tracing the complex interplay between popular culture, nationalist ideology, civil society, and the state in contemporary Mexico.
Written with verve over a period of twenty years, these essays most translated into English here for the first time suggest why Bartra has become one of Latin America s leading public intellectuals. The essays... Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political tran...
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113,84 zł |
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Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico
ISBN: 9780822329275 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable and monolithic institution that had to be forcibly dragged into the modern world.
Drawing on the archival research of wills, public documents, and other texts from late-colonial and... Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico...
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460,75 zł |
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Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico
ISBN: 9780822329435 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable and monolithic institution that had to be forcibly dragged into the modern world.
Drawing on the archival research of wills, public documents, and other texts from late-colonial and... Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico...
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124,19 zł |
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The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822330424 / Angielski / Miękka / 808 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Mexico Reader" is a vivid introduction to "muchos Mexicos" the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico including its difficult, uneven modernization; the ways the country has been profoundly shaped not only by Mexicans but also by those outside its borders; and the extraordinary economic, political, and ideological power of the Roman Catholic Church. The book looks at what...
"The Mexico Reader" is a vivid introduction to "muchos Mexicos" the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary...
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129,37 zł |
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Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
ISBN: 9780822333081 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uses the Garza rebellion on the Texas-Mexico border to analyze economic and social change in this region, internationalizing U.S. history with its examination of a transborder area within the larger histories of Mexico and the United States.
Uses the Garza rebellion on the Texas-Mexico border to analyze economic and social change in this region, internationalizing U.S. history with its exa...
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512,53 zł |
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Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
ISBN: 9780822333203 / Angielski / Miękka / 407 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border" rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Diaz. Made up of a broad cross-border alliance of ranchers, merchants, peasants, and disgruntled military men, Garza's revolution was the largest and longest lasting threat to the Diaz regime up to that point. After two years of sporadic fighting, the combined efforts...
"Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border" rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, ...
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129,37 zł |
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Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
ISBN: 9780822333531 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. Continental Crossroads rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands history at the crossroads of Chicano/a, Latin American, and U.S. history. Drawing on the historiographies and archives of both the U.S. and Mexico, the authors chronicle the... Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands h... |
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460,75 zł |
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