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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico
ISBN: 9780822353225 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The religion question the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Avila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics, impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into sporadic violence, ultimately frustrating the secular vision shared by Plutarco Elias Calles and Lazaro Cardenas.
Ben Fallaw argues that previous scholarship has not... The religion question the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution profoundly shaped the process of state formation ...
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476,07 |
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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico
ISBN: 9780822353379 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The religion question the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Avila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics, impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into sporadic violence, ultimately frustrating the secular vision shared by Plutarco Elias Calles and Lazaro Cardenas.
Ben Fallaw argues that previous scholarship has not... The religion question the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution profoundly shaped the process of state formation ...
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155,45 |
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Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
ISBN: 9780199898336 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords.
Without a doubt, the drug war is real. In the last six years, over 60,000 people have been murdered in narco-related crimes. But, there is far more to Mexico's story than this gruesome... Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and...
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121,59 |
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Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
ISBN: 9780803269712 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico's economically active population. Neither taxed nor monitored by the government, the informal sector is the fastest growing economic sector in the world.
In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola Garcia explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population,... No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food an...
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116,54 |
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A Very Different Life
ISBN: 9780979099465 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1905, a young wife arrived in a strange land to join her mining engineer husband. The challenges of her new life proved both exciting and dangerous. She recorded her domestic-and, later, historical-adventures with youthful enthusiasm and naive bigotry in this series of engaging autobiographical essays. Her literary time capsules capture the attitudes and mores of the era while revealing a woman gently reared to live a life quite different than the difficult one she chose.
In 1905, a young wife arrived in a strange land to join her mining engineer husband. The challenges of her new life proved both exciting and dangerous...
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22,62 |
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2012: El Sexto Sol
ISBN: 9781463338596 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Los datos que este libro contiene son una recopilacion de muchos anos, abrumadores de la milenaria expresion cultural de nuestros ancestros precuauhtemicos y sus propios ancestros. 2012 El Sexto Sol no es un libro de presagios, profecias o desastres, es la esperanza del Sexto Sol que comienza este mismo ano, como reflejo de la enorme civilizacion astronomica y matematica que nos precedio y de la curiosa confluencia en el solsticio de invierno de los calendarios azteca y maya, chino y gregoriano. Tres civilizaciones antiguas y la "moderna" observaron el fenomeno astronomico del paso de nuestro...
Los datos que este libro contiene son una recopilacion de muchos anos, abrumadores de la milenaria expresion cultural de nuestros ancestros precuauhte...
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45,00 |
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The Ghosts of Merida: Thrilling Accounts of Souls, Spirits, and Ghosts of Mexico's Most Haunted City
ISBN: 9780979117688 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If I were, upon dying, to come back as a ghost, I can think of no more beautiful a city to haunt than Merida" - Carlos Fuentes. What is it about the story of a haunting that appeals to our nature? What is it about Merida, with its history dating back to the 16th century when it was an isolated city in New Spain's Yucatan peninsula, that is so haunting and haunted? Why does it offer a rich history from which to draw out the ghosts that live here, some of which date back to when the Maya ruled in all their glory? There is, of course, a natural human fascination with ghost stories. In this...
"If I were, upon dying, to come back as a ghost, I can think of no more beautiful a city to haunt than Merida" - Carlos Fuentes. What is it about the ...
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75,83 |
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Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780472051939 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mex-Cine offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Cine aims to make visible the twenty-first century Mexican film industry, its blueprints, and the cognitive and emotive faculties involved in making and consuming its corpus. A sustained, free-flowing book-length meditation, Mex-Cine enriches our understanding of the way contemporary Mexican directors use specific technical devices,...
Mex-Cine offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and ...
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127,59 |
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Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment
ISBN: 9780806135427 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Mesoamerican Elites, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase present a wide variety of essays, all of which evaluate current archaeological knowledge of the privileged ruling classes, or elites, in Mesoamerica. Some experts argue that Mesoamerican societies consisted only of elites and peasants, while others argue that considerable intermediate social levels also existed. In light of such diverse opinions, this volume addresses problems in the interpretation of archaeological evidence regarding ancient Mesoamerican social structure. In Mesoamerican Elites, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase present a wide variety of essays, all of which evaluate current archaeological k... |
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116,54 |
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The Ancient Cities of the New World: Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
ISBN: 9781108061339 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this English translation of Desire Charnay's record of his travels among the ancient cities of Mexico and Central America was first published in 1887. Born in France, Charnay (1828 1915) travelled extensively through commissions from the French government and with private patronage. He made several visits to the region between 1857 and 1886, producing in his work both a journal of his adventures and an archaeological examination of past civilisations. Beginning in Mexico, Charnay notably examines the ancient city of Tula and also the history of Yucatan,...
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this English translation of Desire Charnay's record of his travels among the ancient cities of Mexico and Central ...
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434,76 |
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Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the Us-Mexico Border
ISBN: 9780253009289 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, works of art, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a variegated transnational space, shedding new light on the complex relationship between these two countries and on the process of making value itself. Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both side... |
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306,04 |
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Twilight of the Mission Frontier: Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768-1855
ISBN: 9780804785044 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm--which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century--new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora. During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part...
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassess...
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306,04 |
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Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico
ISBN: 9780822354918 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationships, and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. It is based on interviews that Emily A. Wentzell conducted with more than 250 male patients in the urology clinic of a government-run hospital in Cuernavaca. Drawing on science studies, medical anthropology, and gender theory, Wentzell suggests the idea of "composite masculinities" as a paradigm for understanding how men incorporate physical and social change into...
Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationsh...
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456,63 |
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Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico
ISBN: 9780822355069 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationships, and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. It is based on interviews that Emily A. Wentzell conducted with more than 250 male patients in the urology clinic of a government-run hospital in Cuernavaca. Drawing on science studies, medical anthropology, and gender theory, Wentzell suggests the idea of "composite masculinities" as a paradigm for understanding how men incorporate physical and social change into...
Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationsh...
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121,40 |
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Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The 1544 Investigation of the Coronado Expedition
ISBN: 9780826353269 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only two years after the Coronado Expedition to what is now New Mexico, Spanish officials conducted an inquiry into the effects of the expedition on the native people Coronado encountered. The documents that record that investigation are at the heart of this book. These depositions are as fresh as today's news. Published both in the original Spanish and in English translation, they provide an unparalleled wealth of information about the Indians' responses to the Europeans and the attitudes of the Europeans toward the native peoples.
Only two years after the Coronado Expedition to what is now New Mexico, Spanish officials conducted an inquiry into the effects of the expedition on t...
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233,17 |
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Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation
ISBN: 9780826357397 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Aleman. Supporters hailed them as modernizing visionaries whose policies laid the foundation for unprecedented economic growth, while critics decried the administration s toleration of rampant corruption, hostility to organized labor, and indifference to the rural poor. Setting aside these extremes of opinion in favor of a more balanced analysis, Sons of the Mexican Revolution traces the socialization of this ruling... The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic l... |
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116,54 |
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Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation
ISBN: 9780826357380 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Aleman. Supporters hailed them as modernizing visionaries whose policies laid the foundation for unprecedented economic growth, while critics decried the administration s toleration of rampant corruption, hostility to organized labor, and indifference to the rural poor. Setting aside these extremes of opinion in favor of a more balanced analysis, Sons of the Mexican Revolution traces the socialization of this ruling... The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic l... |
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383,76 |
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The Learned Ones: Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico
ISBN: 9780816534210 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the wise ones of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some from linking the words indigenous and intellectual together.
Not so, according to author Kelly S. McDonough, at least not for native speakers of Nahuatl, one of the most widely spoken and best-documented indigenous languages of the Americas. This book focuses on how Nahuas have been deeply engaged... They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the wise ones of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial m...
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121,40 |
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Discovering Paquimé
ISBN: 9780816534012 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid-1560s Spanish explorers marched northward through Mexico to the farthest northern reaches of the Spanish empire in Latin America. They beheld an impressive site known as Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Row upon row of walls featured houses and plazas of what was once a large population center, now deserted. Called Casas Grandes (Spanish for large houses ) but also known as Paquime, the prehistoric archaeological site may have been one of the first that Spanish explorers encountered. The Ibarra expedition, occurring perhaps no more than a hundred years after the...
In the mid-1560s Spanish explorers marched northward through Mexico to the farthest northern reaches of the Spanish empire in Latin America. They behe...
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77,68 |
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The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799-1832
ISBN: 9780816533534 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nahuatl-speaking women and men left last wills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to have ended. Describing their world in testaments clustered around epidemic cycles, they responded to profound changes in population, land use, and local governance with astonishing vibrancy. The Aztecs at Independence offers the first internal ethnographic view of these central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical transitional time of Independence. Miriam Melton-Villanueva uses previously unknown Nahuatl-language...
Nahuatl-speaking women and men left last wills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to...
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223,46 |
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