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Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970
ISBN: 9780415945592 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past.
Drawing on years of research among the Maya that specifically documents women's oral histories, Carey gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories... Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to prese...
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702,94 |
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Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970
ISBN: 9780415945608 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past.
Drawing on years of research among the Maya that specifically documents women's oral histories, Carey gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories... Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to prese...
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193,86 |
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Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World
ISBN: 9780500279298 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new, revised edition of Jeremy Sabloff's study, he looks at some of the richest cultures of the early historic world - Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec. Professor Sabloff describes everyday life during the heyday of Mexico's greatest cities in a series of vignettes; through the eyes of astronomers and ballplayers, merchants and priests, we see the temples, palaces and tombs of a civilization obsessed with ritual and death. Who built these cities and how do we know? Sabloff seeks to explain why archaeologists believe in the indigenous origins of the Mexican civilization.
In this new, revised edition of Jeremy Sabloff's study, he looks at some of the richest cultures of the early historic world - Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, T...
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72,03 |
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Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture
ISBN: 9780520215146 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to illuminate Mexican history through these charged decades and into the 1970s. This fascinating narrative traces the rechanneling of youth energies away from political protest in the wake of the 1968 student movement and into counterculture rebellion, known as La Onda (The Wave). Refried...
This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the ar...
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186,96 |
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Mexico's Mandarins: Crafting a Power Elite for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780520233447 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite--their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often overlooked role mentoring plays in their rise to the top. In the course of this book, he traces the careers of approximately four hundred of the country's most notable politicians, military officers, clergy, intellectuals, and capitalists. Thoroughly researched and drawn from in-depth interviews with...
This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai C...
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165,68 |
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Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars Between Spain, Britain and France, 1760-1810
ISBN: 9780521879644 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book emphasizes that the Spanish empire remained the third most important European state in terms of fiscal income and naval power, and first in size of territorial empire, particularly because of its colonies in Spanish America. The Spanish crown was involved in four wars with Great Britain and two wars with France during the decades 1760-1810. Colonial Mexico financed most of these wars by remitting silver in the form of taxes and loans. The expenditures of the imperial wars were so great that they eventually caused the bankruptcy of both the Spanish American colonies and of the...
This book emphasizes that the Spanish empire remained the third most important European state in terms of fiscal income and naval power, and first in ...
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438,02 |
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Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa
ISBN: 9780674010642 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Reliving Golgotha, Richard Trexler brings a new perspective to religious spectacle in an exploration of the annual passion play at Iztapalapa, the largest and poorest borough of Mexico City.
In Reliving Golgotha, Richard Trexler brings a new perspective to religious spectacle in an exploration of the annual passion play at Iztapalapa, the ...
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178,35 |
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The Code of Kings: the Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
ISBN: 9780684852096 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings relies on Linda Schele and Peter Mathews's revolutionary work in the decipherment of the hieroglyphs that cover the surfaces of Maya ruins to give us a far clearer picture of Maya culture than we have ever had.
Richly illustrated with line art and the incomparable photography of Justin Kerr and Macduff Everton, The Code of Kings... This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America....
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98,78 |
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The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Mexico Their Thoughts about Life Death and the Universe
ISBN: 9780743412803 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World-renowned bestselling author Carlos Castaneda's Selection of his wrtings on the shamans of ancient Mexico. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda soon immersed himself in the sorcerer's magical world entirely. Ten years after his first encounter with the shaman, Castaneda examines his field notes and comes to understand what don Juan knew all along--that these plants are merely a means to understanding the alternative realities that one cannot fully embrace on one's own. In...
World-renowned bestselling author Carlos Castaneda's Selection of his wrtings on the shamans of ancient Mexico. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian s...
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72,18 |
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Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico
ISBN: 9780767920919 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tony Cohan's On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as--faced with the invasion of the town by tourists and an entire Hollywood movie crew, a magazine editor's irresistible invitation, and his own incurable wanderlust--Cohan undertakes a richer, wider exploration of the country he has settled in.
Told with the intimate, sensuous insight and broad sweep that captivated readers of... Tony Cohan's On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled...
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76,02 |
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The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge
ISBN: 9780803222243 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa el jaguar and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the tiny town of Columbus, New Mexico. It was a vicious surprise attack, ending with corpses piled in the streets and psychological wounds that would last a lifetime. Suspects were rounded up, trials were held, and a virulent backlash against persons of Mexican origin erupted. General John Black Jack Pershing was told to assemble a small army, head into Mexico, and get Villa, dead or alive. The last hurrah for the U.S. cavalry, the Punitive...
On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa el jaguar and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided ...
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102,44 |
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Colonial Noir: Photographs from Mexico
ISBN: 9780804745369 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the expansive vernacular of black and white night photography to modify the antiquarian sensibility ordinarily brought to the study of Mexico's colonial architectures, Colonial Noir brings together the unsettling tenor of Mexico's colonial legacies with the ambiguous landscape of noir. Set against the backdrop of Baroque and Neoclassical architecture, the images in this collection draw on the aesthetics of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism to create the collection's existential tone--where the innuendo of chiaroscuro becomes an analog to the tenuous relationship...
Using the expansive vernacular of black and white night photography to modify the antiquarian sensibility ordinarily brought to the study of Mexico's ...
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242,39 |
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The Strategic Dynamics of Latin American Trade
ISBN: 9780804748995 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diversity of Latin American trade agreements established since the mid-1980s reflects a broadening range of strategic perceptions and orientations. The argument of this volume is that this increasing divergence among the arrangements reflects fundamental and growing differences among their broader strategic perceptions and political and economic objectives. These, in turn, are grounded in each country's economic profile, the institutional configuration of its trade policy process, and the constraints and opportunities policymakers perceive at the domestic and international levels. The...
The diversity of Latin American trade agreements established since the mid-1980s reflects a broadening range of strategic perceptions and orientations...
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644,76 |
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Primeros Memoriales, Part 1, Volume 200: Facsimile Edition
ISBN: 9780806116884 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Primeros Memoriales, by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, is a valuable document providing great understanding and knowledge of provincial Mesoamerican civilization. In 1558 the Spanish Franciscan missionary Fray Bernardino de Sahagun was commissioned by the Catholic Church to conduct a systematic investigation of the indigenous culture, particularly the religious/ritual system, the dominant native language of Central Mexico, Sahagun worked with trilingual (Nahuatl/Spanish/Latin) Indian assistants between 1559 and 1561 to produce what came to be known as the Primeros Memoriales. Although... Primeros Memoriales, by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, is a valuable document providing great understanding and knowledge of provincial Mesoamerican c... |
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741,72 |
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Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca
ISBN: 9780806135861 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of Cuernavaca, Mexico, based on late seventeenth-century records. 6 x 9, 64 b&w illustrations, 3 maps.
A history of Cuernavaca, Mexico, based on late seventeenth-century records. 6 x 9, 64 b&w illustrations, 3 maps.
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203,61 |
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Tlacuilolli: Style and Contents of the Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts with a Catalog of the Borgia Group
ISBN: 9780806136530 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Appearing for the first time in English, Karl Anton Nowotny's Tlacuilolli is a classic work of Mesoamerican scholarship. A concise analysis of the pre-Columbian Borgia Group of manuscripts, it is the only synthetic interpretation of divinatory and ritual codices from Mexico. Originally published in German and unavailable to any but the most determined scholars, Tlacuilolli has nevertheless formed the foundation for subsequent scholarly works on the codices. Its importance extends beyond the study of Mexican codices: Nowotny's sophisticated reading of these manuscripts informs our...
Appearing for the first time in English, Karl Anton Nowotny's Tlacuilolli is a classic work of Mesoamerican scholarship. A concise analysis of the pre...
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305,41 |
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Climax at Buena Vista: The Decisive Battle of the Mexican-American War
ISBN: 9780812218602 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ferocity and magnitude of the American Civil War eclipses that of all other nineteenth-century conflicts, but the hard fighting and tactics that played out between the North and South were first developed during the Mexican-American War of the late 1840s. It was during this struggle between two regional powers that the United States showed that it could muster soldiers representing far-flung states of the Union--Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Mississippi--and officers fresh from West Point, testing the military preparedness of the young nation. In Climax at Buena Vista,...
The ferocity and magnitude of the American Civil War eclipses that of all other nineteenth-century conflicts, but the hard fighting and tactics that p...
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119,53 |
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Corn in Clay: Maize Paleoethnobotany in Pre-Columbian Art
ISBN: 9780813016696 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work looks at contact between ancient American cultures. It integrates evidence from replicas of maize on ancient pottery vessels with other biological and archaeological evidence to establish a degree of contact between Mesoamerica and the Andean region in precolumbian times.
This work looks at contact between ancient American cultures. It integrates evidence from replicas of maize on ancient pottery vessels with other biol...
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242,39 |
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Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz (Revised)
ISBN: 9780814322161 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana In's de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana In's de la Cruz fills a gap in the scholarship on Sor Juana by exploring the implications of her feminist staus in literary and cultural terms. Editor Stephanie Merrim's introduction surveys key issues in Sor Juana criticism from a feminist literary perspective and suggests a blueprint for future studies. Essays by Dorothy Schons and Asunci?n Lavrin reconstitute... Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana In's de la Cruz has also been celebrat... |
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96,90 |
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Black and Brown
ISBN: 9780814736678 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of race relations, impacting both Mexican and African Americans. For black Westerners, 1910-1920 did not represent the clear-cut promise of populist power, but a reordering of the complex social hierarchy which had, since the nineteenth century, granted them greater freedom in the borderlands than in the rest of the United States. Despite its lasting significance, the story of black Americans along the Mexican border has been sorely underreported in the annals of U.S. history. Gerald Horne brings the tale to life in Black and Brown....
The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of race relations, impacting both Mexican and African Americans. For black Westerners, 191...
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344,20 |
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