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Unwelcome Exiles: Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945
ISBN: 9789004259935 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje--the country's blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity--by...
Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, th...
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764,88 |
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The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
ISBN: 9780804792080 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of Spanish and Maya language documents from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives. His goal is to discover what life was like for a people hitherto ignored by historians. He explores such topics as slavery and freedom, militia service and family life, bigamy and... Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full-length study... |
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145,98 |
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Los Aztecas: Historia, Cultura, Mitología, Leyendas y Profecías
ISBN: 9781481968072 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He aqui una obra original y fascinante a cerca de una de las civilizaciones mas interesantes y reconocida del mundo antiguo: Los Aztecas. Este libro contiene mas de 100 imagenes de mapas, manuscritos, codices, pinturas y esculturas. Incluye tambien fotografias de museos y zonas arqueologicas, que ofrecen una vision singular de esta civilizacion tan rica y tan compleja. Descubre sus origenes; como se formo su imperio; como estaba organizada su sociedad, su educacion, su ejercito y su vida familiar y cotidiana. Conoce el tipo de sacrificios que hacian; cuales eran las reglas del ulama o juego...
He aqui una obra original y fascinante a cerca de una de las civilizaciones mas interesantes y reconocida del mundo antiguo: Los Aztecas. Este libro c...
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39,87 |
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The Ethnohistorical Map in New Spain
ISBN: 9780822368069 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This special issue brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to examine the relationship between cartography and the expression of ethnicity in the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1521 to 1821. Maps from Oaxaca, central Mexico, and the Philippines, spanning the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries, provide important yet understudied illustrations of the social, political, and geographic complexity of the regions. This collection of essays scrutinizes maps made by cosmographers, surveyors, indigenous painters, and scientists. The contributors explicate how ethnicity can...
This special issue brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to examine the relationship between cartography and the expression of ethnici...
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58,37 |
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Cuauhtemoc o Cortes: El drama de Mexico. El pasado nos impulsa o nos encadena
ISBN: 9781494234089 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El Mexico envenenado de odios sera un Mexico de burocratas aprovechadores e ineficientes que, convencidos de la imposibilidad de hacer nada efectivo, se lanzan a la voragine de la corrupcion y la apatia. Un hombre desmoralizado es un protagonista de mordidas y delincuencia. Es la torpeza y el desgano. El Mexico grande esta entre su misma gente, si desmonta la trampa afectiva que le han tendido los militares del odio. El Mexico optimista e industrioso es el que puede pensar que su pasado indigena y espanol es plataforma y no lastre. El Mexico grandioso dejara de ser un sueno cuando los...
El Mexico envenenado de odios sera un Mexico de burocratas aprovechadores e ineficientes que, convencidos de la imposibilidad de hacer nada efectivo, ...
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79,62 |
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The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State
ISBN: 9780826351302 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played an important part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime.
Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played a...
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223,92 |
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Jesuit Student Groups, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Political Resistance in Mexico, 1913-1979
ISBN: 9780826354600 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by conflict between church and state. This book focuses on the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church to influence Mexican society through Jesuit-led organizations such as the Mexican Catholic Youth Association, the National Catholic Student Union, and the Universidad Iberoamericana. Dedicated to the education and indoctrination of MexicoAEs middle- and upper-class youth, these organizations were designed to promote conservative Catholic values. The author shows that they left a very different imprint on Mexican society, training a...
The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by conflict between church and state. This book focuses on the efforts of the Roman Catholic ...
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223,92 |
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Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico
ISBN: 9780826354624 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico. It is easy to assume that emotions are a given, unchanging aspect of human psychology. But the emotions we feel reflect the times in which we live. People express themselves within the norms and prescriptions particular to their society, their class, their ethnicity, and other factors. The essays collected here chart daily life through the study of sex and marriage, love, lust and jealousy, civic rituals and preaching, gambling and... The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial M... |
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116,78 |
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The War With Mexico
ISBN: 9781478373117 / Angielski / Miękka / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,69 |
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La hora de la verdad: La batalla del 5 de mayo
ISBN: 9781493743391 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El 5 de mayo de 1862, en el cerro de Loreto y Guadalupe, Puebla, se libro una de las batallas mas encarnizadas en la historia de Mexico. El enfrentamiento entre las tropas de Napoleon III, emperador del Segundo Imperio Frances, y las del Ejercito al mando del general Ignacio Zaragoza, encargadas de resguardar el gobierno de Benito Juarez, era completamente desigual. Pero ese dia se escribio una historia distinta en Mexico: se forjaron heroes y fue la hora de la verdad"
El 5 de mayo de 1862, en el cerro de Loreto y Guadalupe, Puebla, se libro una de las batallas mas encarnizadas en la historia de Mexico. El enfrentami...
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51,84 |
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Looking Like the Enemy : Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897 - 1945
ISBN: 9780816530250 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese citizens sought new opportunities abroad. By 1910, nearly ten thousand had settled in Mexico. Over time, they found work, put down roots, and raised families. But until now, very little has been written about their lives. Looking Like the Enemy is the first English-language history of the Japanese experience in Mexico.
Japanese citizens were initially lured to Mexico with promises of cheap and productive land in Chiapas. Many of the promises were false, and the immigrants were forced to fan out across the country,... At the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese citizens sought new opportunities abroad. By 1910, nearly ten thousand had settled in...
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204,45 |
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What's The Matter With Mexico?
ISBN: 9781450550499 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What's The Matter With Mexico? By Caspar Whitney, 1916].
What's The Matter With Mexico? By Caspar Whitney, 1916].
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79,78 |
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Forsaken Harvest: Haciendas and Agrarian Reform in Jalisco, Mexico: 1915-1940
ISBN: 9781477155769 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,51 |
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Forsaken Harvest: Haciendas and Agrarian Reform in Jalisco, Mexico: 1915-1940
ISBN: 9781477155776 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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158,27 |
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The Ejido: Mexico's Way Out
ISBN: 9781469609584 / Angielski / Miękka / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Mexico the term ejido is applied to agricultural lands held collectively by agrarian communities. In this book, the ejido becomes a point of departure for a detailed examination of the whole gamut of problems in rural Mexico--land distribution and tenure, education, agricultural credit, and political organization and social control. Finally, the ejido is evaluated in relation to land reform and the future economic and social organization of Mexico.
Originally published in 1937. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital... In Mexico the term ejido is applied to agricultural lands held collectively by agrarian communities. In this book, the ejido becomes a point of depart...
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384,55 |
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Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside
ISBN: 9780199936595 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the Party of the Poor (PDLP), which waged revolutionary armed struggles to overthrow the PRI. Both emerged to fight decades of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by the government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption...
The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institu...
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206,86 |
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Specters of Revolution
ISBN: 9780199936571 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the Party of the Poor (PDLP), which waged revolutionary armed struggles to overthrow the PRI. Both emerged to fight decades of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by the government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption...
The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institu...
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686,51 |
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Apertura Externa, Industria Manufacturera y Politica Industrial En Mexico*: Vision Prospectiva
ISBN: 9781463361914 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En este libro se analizan los rasgos y factores determinantes que han propiciado los cambios en la estructura productiva y el desarrollo industrial de Mexico, especificamente en la industria manufacturera, en el marco de las reformas estructurales aplicadas a lo largo de las tres ultimas decadas. El objetivo central consistio en analizar el impacto que ha tenido el proceso de apertura externa de la economia mexicana en el desempeno productivo de la industria manufacturera, a traves del examen detallado y desagregado de una serie de variables fundamentales y estrategicas. Los resultados son...
En este libro se analizan los rasgos y factores determinantes que han propiciado los cambios en la estructura productiva y el desarrollo industrial de...
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90,24 |
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Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico
ISBN: 9780754666714 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Monica Dominguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest' in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures; and that certain interconnections between martial, social and religious elements resonated with similar intensity among Mesoamericans and Europeans, creating indeed cultural bridges between these diverse communities. Multidisciplinary in approach, this study builds on scholarship in the...
Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Monica Dominguez Torres here investigates...
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730,17 |
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Metaphysical Odyssey Into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual
ISBN: 9780988797000 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a blend of biography, personal essay, and a rendition of deeply researched metaphysical and Mexican history that reads like a novel, award-winning writer and noted literary translator C.M. Mayo provides a rich introduction and the first translation of the secret book by Francisco I. Madero, leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution and President of Mexico 1911-1913. Says Mexican historian Manuel Guerra de Luna, author of LOS MADERO: LA SAGA LIBERAL, "In my fifteen years of researching the life of President Francisco I. Madero, I have never read a more complete book as the one just written by C.M....
In a blend of biography, personal essay, and a rendition of deeply researched metaphysical and Mexican history that reads like a novel, award-winning ...
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63,64 |