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Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
ISBN: 9780816534180 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted Japanese Mexicans as an internal racial enemy. In spite of the broad resistance presented by the communities wherein they were valued members, Japanese Mexicans lost their freedom, property, and lives. In Uprooting Community, Selfa A. Chew examines the lived experience of Japanese...
Joining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the ...
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101,97 |
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Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay
ISBN: 9780813062792 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings novel, synthetic insight to understanding a region that was a hub of waterborne trade and an important locus of production for some of the Maya s most valued crops. Cynthia Robin, author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan
This one of a kind volume shows us how important this region was to the ancient Maya with detailed and vivid descriptions of sociopolitical and economic organization and their relation to the unique landscape and geography of Chetumal Bay. Laura J. Kosakowsky, author of Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize Chetumal Bay is... Brings novel, synthetic insight to understanding a region that was a hub of waterborne trade and an important locus of production for some of the Maya...
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The Laws of Mexico: A Compilation and Treatise Relating to Real Property, Mines, Water Rights, Personal Rights, Contracts, and Inheritance
ISBN: 9781584779957 / Angielski / Twarda / 1040 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this comprehensive compilation Hall sought to bring order to what he viewed as the disorganized state of Mexican law. With a new introduction by Peter L. Reich, Professor of Law and Sumner Scholar, Whittier Law School. Originally published: San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1885. (v-xx new introduction), cxxiv, 809, 811*]-862*, 811]-840 pp. Through this English collection of sources from Spain's medieval law code tMexico's 1870 Codigo Civil (Civil Code), Hall highlighted issues such as trade, property, agrarian and water rights, mines, contracts and inheritances that applied in...
With this comprehensive compilation Hall sought to bring order to what he viewed as the disorganized state of Mexican law. With a new introduction by ...
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480,26 |
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Tlacaelel Remembered: MasterMind of the Aztec Empire Volume 276
ISBN: 9780806154343 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398-1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was "the beginning and origin" of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica. Brother of the first Moteuczoma, Tlacaelel would become "the most powerful, feared, and esteemed man of all that the world had seen up to that time." But this outsize figure of Aztec history has also long been shrouded in mystery. In Tlacaelel Remembered, the first biography of the Mexica nobleman, Susan Schroeder searches out the truth about his life and legacy. A century after Tlacaelel's death, in the... The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398-1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was "the beginning and origin" of the Mexica monarchy in fifteent... |
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131,11 |
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The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876-1911
ISBN: 9780826358059 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Diaz's army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks--not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy--reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a modern society. The Porfirian regime sought to control and direct violence, to impose scientific hygiene and patriotic zeal, and to build an army to rival that of the European powers. The barracks community enacted these objectives in times of war or... This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Diaz's army through the decades l... |
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Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era
ISBN: 9780816534142 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexico's modern middle class emerged in the decades after World War II, a period of spectacular economic growth and social change. This book explores the changing fortunes and political transformation of the middle class, especially during the 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century.
Mexico's modern middle class emerged in the decades after World War II, a period of spectacular economic growth and social change. This book explores ...
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121,40 |
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Curriculum Studies in Mexico: Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances
ISBN: 9781349296125 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field's intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with globalization.
Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field's intel...
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201,24 |
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Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture
ISBN: 9781349280971 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative study of the everyday life of the Aztecs.
The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and ex...
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221,37 |
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Mexico and the Foreign Policy of Napoleon III
ISBN: 9781349419593 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Napoleon III's motives for intervening in Mexico in the 1860s were consistent with his foreign policy, which was based on his belief that free trade was the best foundation for peace. He saw the establishment of a friendly government in Mexico as an opportunity to expand that policy to encompass the world by ensuring European access to American markets, and preventing monopoly by the United States. His attempts to achieve this, however, were thwarted by his representatives in Mexico and the suspicions of his neighbours.
Napoleon III's motives for intervening in Mexico in the 1860s were consistent with his foreign policy, which was based on his belief that free trade w...
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Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain
ISBN: 9781107102675 / Angielski / Twarda / 738 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and...
The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lastin...
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696,62 |
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Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss
ISBN: 9781349435661 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.
Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the ...
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201,24 |
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Being Indian in Hueyapan
ISBN: 9781349949748 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revised and updated edition, Judith Friedlander places her widely acclaimed work in historical context. The book describes the lives of the inhabitants of an indigenous pueblo during the late 1960s and early 1970s and analyzes the ways that Indians like them have been discriminated against since early colonial times.
In this revised and updated edition, Judith Friedlander places her widely acclaimed work in historical context. The book describes the lives of the in...
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230,06 |
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Five Letters 1519-1526
ISBN: 9781138878112 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1928.
'These letters, well edited tell of a great conqueror, fighting for God and his king, and reveal the might proportions of the truly Elizabethan character that was Hernando Cortes.' Times Literary Supplement. Cortes's letters to the Emperor from Mexico are half-letters, half-despatches. The letters were all written between 1519 and 1526. Letter One: Despite the original never having been recovered, there is little doubt about the contents of this letter. The earliest discoveries of the mainland from 1517 onwards are outlined. Letter Two: Arguably... First published in 1928.
'These letters, well edited tell of a great conqueror, fighting for God and his king, and reveal the might proportions of ... |
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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers: Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767-1856
ISBN: 9780816535286 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Franciscan mission San Jose de Tumacacori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell's windows on the Arizona Sonora frontier in this colorful documentary history. His fascinating view extends from the Jesuit expulsion to the coming of the U.S. Army.
Kessell provides exciting accounts of the explorations of Francisco Garces, de Anza's expeditions, and the Yuma massacre. Drawing from widely scattered archival materials, he vividly describes the epic struggle between Bishop Reyes and Father President Barbastro, the missionary scandals of 1815 18, and the... The Franciscan mission San Jose de Tumacacori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell's windows on the Arizona Sonora fr...
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The Sonoran Desert: Its Geography, Economy, and People
ISBN: 9780816535200 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although possessing a common physical heritage, the Sonoran Desert has taken on highly contrasting forms in its American and Mexican portions. This work does not, therefore, attempt a regional study in the usual sense of the term, but is rather an examination of disparate economic development, much influenced by contrasting technological achievements as well as the accidents of history.
Although the significance of geographic regionalism is implicit throughout this study, no attempt is made to show any overriding unity at work, geographical or otherwise, welding together a "desert... Although possessing a common physical heritage, the Sonoran Desert has taken on highly contrasting forms in its American and Mexican portions. This wo...
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184,09 |
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The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night
ISBN: 9781349529469 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A compelling account of the making of the Mexican tourism industry, and the role it played in shaping Mexican nationalism and foreign policy during the first half of the twentieth century.
A compelling account of the making of the Mexican tourism industry, and the role it played in shaping Mexican nationalism and foreign policy during th...
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442,79 |
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Social Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs: The Cases of Colombia and Mexico
ISBN: 9781349371198 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book applies Revolution in Military Affairs theories to explain the various strategic victories and losses for assorted social forces in Colombia and Mexico. These countries form the ideal comparative case study of RMA, both from above by the state, and below by civil society.
This book applies Revolution in Military Affairs theories to explain the various strategic victories and losses for assorted social forces in Colombia...
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201,24 |
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Mexico and the Survey of Public Lands
ISBN: 9780875801810 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,88 |
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The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists
ISBN: 9780816535804 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Capitalism, the economic system of Western Europe and the United States at the turn of the century, had a major impact on every country of the Third World. In the Western Hemisphere, no country escaped its influence, particularly the North American version, increasingly omnipotent. Mexico, next door to the powerful colossus, often felt the brunt of that impact. The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists examines how the advent of North American dollars between 1882 and 1910 helped reshape the economic, social, and political contours of a Mexican province on the border of Arizona. The...
Capitalism, the economic system of Western Europe and the United States at the turn of the century, had a major impact on every country of the Third W...
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140,83 |
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The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs
ISBN: 9780199341962 / Angielski / Twarda / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and methodologies and current debates. The Handbook articles are divided into seven parts. Part I, Archaeology of the Aztecs, introduces the Aztecs, as well as Aztec studies today, including the...
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best docum...
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754,15 |
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