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Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico
ISBN: 9780826348838 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the long dictatorship of Porfirio Daz, from 1876 to 1911, Esposito asserts that Mexico gained both national pride and its international personality due to Diazs reliance on memorialism, death and ceremony. Porfirian state constructed dozens of national monuments, performed countless commemorations, and held 110 state funerals. These magisterial displays of state power created an aura of legitimacy that helped the eight term dictator stay in power.
During the long dictatorship of Porfirio Daz, from 1876 to 1911, Esposito asserts that Mexico gained both national pride and its international persona...
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Princes of the Earth: Subcultural Diversity in a Mexican Municipality
ISBN: 9780982676714 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. She shows with considerable documentation, much of it in the words and writings of the people themselves, how the Mexican Revolution has affected the countryside. David Maybury-Lewis Foreword "By concentrating her attention on an entire municipality rather than a town or village, Margolies is able to focus effectively on institutional and interpersonal relations between Indians and non-Indians, and between peasants and townspeople. Chambers American Anthropologist 1977 PRINCES OF THE EARTH is a study of the Mazahuas in late 19th century and in the two decades succeeding the Revolution when...
She shows with considerable documentation, much of it in the words and writings of the people themselves, how the Mexican Revolution has affected the ...
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The Postclassic Mesoamerican World
ISBN: 9781607810247 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan Anthropology and Archaeology The past two decades have seen an explosion of research on Postclassic Mesoamerican societies. In this ambitious new volume, the editors and contributors seek to present a complete picture of the middle and late Postclassic period (ca. AD 1100-1500) employing a new theoretical framework. Edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan Anthropology and Archaeology The past two decades have seen an explosion of research on Postcl... |
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Archaeological Investigations at Yaxuná, 1986-1996: Results of the Selz Foundation Yaxuna Project
ISBN: 9781407305455 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume represents the final report of the Selz Foundation Yaxuna Archaeological Project at the Precolumbian Maya center of Yaxuna, Yucatan, Mexico from 1986 to 1996. This volume contains summaries of all survey data, excavations, artifact analyses, and current interpretations. Contents: 1) Introduction; 2) Background to the investigations; 3) The natural setting; 4) Chronology (Yaxuna Ia (750/500 B.C.-250 B.C.), Yaxuna Ib (250 B.C.-A.D. 250), Yaxuna IIa (A.D. 250-A.D. 400), Yaxuna IIb (A.D. 400-A.D. 550), Yaxuna IIc (A.D. 550-A.D. 600), Yaxuna III (A.D. 600-700/730), Yaxuna IVa (A.D....
This volume represents the final report of the Selz Foundation Yaxuna Archaeological Project at the Precolumbian Maya center of Yaxuna, Yucatan, Mexic...
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Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers
ISBN: 9780819122308 / Angielski / Miękka / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1975.
Originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1975.
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411,83 |
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Esplendores y miserias de la evangelización de América
ISBN: 9783110236132 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung, die Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftler, Theologen, Archaologen und Historiker, Anthropologen und Rechtshistoriker zusammenfuhrte. Zentrale Gegenstande sind die Voraussetzungen der Evangelisierung Amerikas in der europaischen Renaissance, in etablierten Verfahren der Katechese sowie in der Kosmovision indianischer Kulturen, ferner die Prozesse, die sich aus diesem Zusammentreffen im religiosen Kernbereich ergeben, auch in den angrenzenden Feldern der Rechtspraxis, Grammatikschreibung, des Buchmarktes sowie in literarischen... Der Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung, die Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftler, Theologen, Archaologen und Historiker, ... |
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849,66 |
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The Caste War of Yucatán: Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780804740005 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history--the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatan against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatan. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross supported their independence for over fifty years, and that religion survived the eventual Maya defeat and continues today. This revised edition is...
This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history--the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatan against their white and...
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563,50 |
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The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain : A Documentary History, Volume 1, 1570-1700
ISBN: 9780816509034 / Angielski / Twarda / 756 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reports, orders, journals, and letters of military officials trace frontier history through the Chicimeca War and Peace (1576-1606), early rebellions in the Sierra Madre (1601-1618), mid-century challenges and realignment (1640-1660), and northern rebellions and new presidios (1681-1695).
Reports, orders, journals, and letters of military officials trace frontier history through the Chicimeca War and Peace (1576-1606), early rebe...
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325,48 |
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Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9780822985051 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the booming Mexican oil industry and their changing foreign policy toward the United States, from the 1970s to the 1980s.
A study of the booming Mexican oil industry and their changing foreign policy toward the United States, from the 1970s to the 1980s.
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239,46 |
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Gringo Rebel
ISBN: 9781610120036 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a small god-forsaken truck-stop between El Paso and Chihuahua in Mexico called El Sueco - The Swede. The name was given by Pancho Villa, in the same way as he had named other places in Mexico after his comrades in arms, this one for Ivor Thord-Gray, author of Gringo Rebel, who joined the Mexican revolutionaries 1913-1914. Gringo Rebel is Thord-Gray s account of his experience in the Mexican Revolution, and of the close bond he formed with his Yaqui and Tarahumara scouts, providing unique accounts of the battle of Tierra Blanca, the near disintegration of the revolution in April 1914,...
There is a small god-forsaken truck-stop between El Paso and Chihuahua in Mexico called El Sueco - The Swede. The name was given by Pancho Villa, in t...
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112,68 |
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
ISBN: 9781568586458 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants-a beauty queen who was raped, a repentant...
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Pas...
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Pancho Villa. La Primera Revolucion Social del Siglo XX
ISBN: 9781617640704 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este libro no es de caracter estrictamente biografico en forma clasica, pues es mas el pretexto de biografia de Pancho Villa, para resaltar y rescatar el fenomeno social que represento esa Primera Gran revolucion del siglo XX. Inicia la obra con consideraciones generales, para situar al lector en el contexto de la epoca en su tiempo y espacio. Retoma cuestiones caracteristicas de la revolucion poco tratadas por otros escritores, pretende en todo momento dar la version que recorre al pais en la "otra" historia. Asi da tambien enfasis a los cantares del pueblo; y al tradicional corrido...
Este libro no es de caracter estrictamente biografico en forma clasica, pues es mas el pretexto de biografia de Pancho Villa, para resaltar y rescatar...
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Pancho Villa. La Primera Revolucion Social del Siglo XX
ISBN: 9781617640148 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mexican Voices of the Border Region
ISBN: 9781592139088 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side |
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Mexican Voices of the Border Region: Mexicans and Mexican Americans Speak about Living Along the Wall
ISBN: 9781592139095 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side
How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side
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131,11 |
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Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico
ISBN: 9780804776615 / Angielski / Miękka / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maria Elena Martinez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's sistema de castas, a hierarchical system of social classification based primarily on ancestry. Specifically, it explains how this notion surfaced amid socio-religious tensions in early modern Spain, and was initially used against Jewish and Muslim converts to Christianity. It was then transplanted to the Americas, adapted to colonial conditions, and employed to create and reproduce identity...
Maria Elena Martinez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sang...
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133,04 |
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Handmade Brick for Texas: A Mexican Border Industry, Its Workers, and Its Business
ISBN: 9780739147979 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border maquiladora industry that came to identify the U.S.-Mexico border economy in the aftermath of the Border Industrialization Program [BIP] launched in 1965. Through research beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present, Scott Cook has sought to fill-in these blank pages on the binational handmade brick industry and its competitive situation in the Texas market.
Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the bin...
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558,65 |
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Handmade Brick for Texas: A Mexican Border Industry, Its Workers, and Its Business
ISBN: 9780739147986 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border maquiladora industry that came to identify the U.S.-Mexico border economy in the aftermath of the Border Industrialization Program [BIP] launched in 1965. Through research beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present, Scott Cook has sought to fill-in these blank pages on the binational handmade brick industry and its competitive situation in the Texas market.
Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the bin...
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558,65 |
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Primitive Revolution: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968
ISBN: 9780826349514 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexicos urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianityand the practice of Mexican citizenshipto a more pure and essential state.
In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexicos urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselv...
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116,54 |
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Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico
ISBN: 9780826350374 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhtmocs tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the set of ideas, beliefs, and dreams that bind societies to the nation-state.
In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhtmocs tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the ...
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116,54 |