Kategoria BISAC: History >> Latin America - Mexico

Drawing on three detailed case studies--the sewing machine, a glass bottle-blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining--Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to...

Drawing on three detailed case studies--the sewing machine, a glass bottle-blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining--Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to...

To speak of mining in newly independent Mexico is to speak of silver. And silver, historically abundant in the Real del Monte-Pachuca district, was the object of the Company of Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte. Organized in response to a plea by Pedro Romero de Terreros for help in rehabilitating his famous family's once-rich properties, the English Real del Monte was led by men convinced that the application of English capital, management practices, and technology to those ruined mines and mills would reap them a profit and would revitalize the new nation's most promising...

For many years, scholars of the conquest worked to shift focus away from the Spanish perspective and bring attention to the often-ignored voices and viewpoints of the Indians. But recent work that highlights the "Indian conquistadors" has forced scholars to reexamine the simple categories of conqueror and subject and to acknowledge the seemingly contradictory roles assumed by native peoples who chose to fight alongside the Spaniards against other native groups. The Native Conquistador--a translation of the "Thirteenth Relation," written by don Fernando de Alva...

ArtIculos de prensa y fotografIas; de Glenn Burgess; editados por Don Burgess: El ferrocarril Chihuahua al PacIfico de MExico es una de las obras de ingenierIa que mAs retos ha presentado en la construcciOn de caminos y ferrocarriles: Concebido desde mediados del Siglo 19, no fue posible terminarlo e inaugurarlo sino hasta 1961. Glenn Burgess, fotoperiodista, realizO reportajes a lo largo de la construcciOn final, para periOdicos de Texas, explorando la zona desde Ojinaga hasta Topolobampo, conociendo los retos de ingenierIa y construcciOn, y las posibilidades que abrIa...

As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. "Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy," focusing on El Paso and its environs, examines the history of the relationship among law enforcement, military, civil, and political institutions, and local communities. In the years between 1895 and 1940, West Texas experienced intense militarization...