The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Juárez
ISBN: 9781784781040 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intimate story of a teenager s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist
Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable triple murder, Sandra Rodriguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of the most violent city on Earth, with an in-depth investigation into the thought process of the three boys, the city of Juarez and the drug cartels that wage war in its streets. This book explores how... The intimate story of a teenager s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist
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80,27 zł |
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
ISBN: 9780292769175 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. In particular, the garden frescoes uncovered in 1974 at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco document the collision of the European search for Utopia with the reality of colonial life. In this study, Jeanette F. Peterson examines the murals within the dual heritage of pre-Hispanic and European muralism to reveal how the wall paintings promoted the political and... The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the cent... |
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152,57 zł |
The Essential Guide to Living in Merida 2015: Tons of Useful Information
ISBN: 9781939879196 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN MERIDA 2015: TONS OF USEFUL INFORMATION. This guide remains indispensable for anyone thinking of moving to or visiting Merida, the marvelous capital city of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, often profiled as a "tropical paradise" by the House Hunters International cable television show. The most comprehensive book ever compiled about Merida, this well-organized guide will help answer most any question - from how to buy or rent a house to where you can find a good Italian restaurant. The 2015 edition has been updated and expanded to include up-to-the-minute...
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN MERIDA 2015: TONS OF USEFUL INFORMATION. This guide remains indispensable for anyone thinking of moving to or visitin...
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107,15 zł |
Migrating Faith: Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781469624068 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daniel Ramirez's history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azusa Street Revival. The Pentecostal phenomenon--characterized by ecstatic spiritual practices that included speaking in tongues, perceptions of miracles, interracial mingling, and new popular musical worship traditions from both sides of the border--was criticized by Christian theologians, secular media, and even governmental authorities for behaviors considered to be unorthodox and outrageous. Today, many scholars view the revival as having...
Daniel Ramirez's history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azu...
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202,91 zł |
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Ethnology
ISBN: 9780292744462 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1981, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work, Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest. Supplements devoted to Archaeology, Linguistics, Literatures, Ethnohistory, and Epigraphy have appeared to date. In this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and... In 1981, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work, Handbook of Middle American Indians. These s... |
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203,49 zł |
Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968: Shifting Perspectives in Literature and Culture Since Tlatelolco
ISBN: 9781137559876 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the "true" history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and complex series of historical narratives. The initial representations of the events of 1968 were essentially limited to that of the State and that of the Consejo Nacional de Huelga (National Strike Council) and only later incorporated novels and films. Juan J. Rojo examines the manner in which films, posters,...
Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneou...
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389,98 zł |
Máximo Castillo and the Mexican Revolution
ISBN: 9780807163887 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MAximo Castillo and the Mexican Revolution is the first English-language translation of the memoirs of General MAximo Castillo of Chihuahua, a pivotal figure in the civil war that consumed Mexico between 1910 and 1920. Born into rural poverty, Castillo experienced first-hand the repression of Porfirio DIaz's autocratic regime. When the wealthy statesman and author Francisco I. Madero challenged DIaz for the Mexican presidency, campaigning on an idealistic platform of democratic reforms, Castillo joined the many Mexicans who supported Madero's candidacy. As the campaign progressed... MAximo Castillo and the Mexican Revolution is the first English-language translation of the memoirs of General MAximo Castillo of Chihuahu... |
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189,39 zł |
Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands: Gender, Age, Memory, and Place
ISBN: 9781477311325 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands plumbs the archaeological record for what it can reveal about the creation of personal and communal identities in the Maya world. Using new primary data from her excavations at the sites of Yaxuna, Chunchucmil, and Xuenkal, and new analysis of data from Dzibilchaltun in Yucatan, Mexico, Traci Ardren presents a series of case studies in how social identities were created, shared, and manipulated among the lowland Maya. Ardren argues that the interacting factors of gender, age, familial and community memories, and the... Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands plumbs the archaeological record for what it can reveal about the creation of person... |
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101,69 zł |
The Essential Guide to Living in Merida, 2016: Tons of Visitor Information, Including Information on Airbnb, Stays, the Best of Merida, and Dog Cultur
ISBN: 9781939879226 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN MERIDA 2016: TONS OF USEFUL INFORMATION. This guide remains indispensable for anyone thinking of moving to or visiting Merida, the marvelous capital city of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, often profiled as a "tropical paradise" by the House Hunters International cable television show. The most comprehensive book ever compiled about Merida, this well-organized guide will help answer most any question - from how to buy or rent a house to where you can find a good Italian restaurant. The 2016 edition has been updated and expanded to include up-to-the-minute...
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN MERIDA 2016: TONS OF USEFUL INFORMATION. This guide remains indispensable for anyone thinking of moving to or visitin...
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141,51 zł |
Receive Our Memories: The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952
ISBN: 9780199340422 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper, to his daughter, a recent emigre to California, in the 1950s. These are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters include...
Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, b...
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584,64 zł |
Receive Our Memories: The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952
ISBN: 9780199340439 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper, to his daughter, a recent emigre to California, in the 1950s. These are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters include many of the...
Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not fr...
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129,15 zł |
The Bear and the Porcupine: The U.S. and Mexico
ISBN: 9781558764330 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting the story of US-Mexico relations, this work explains the implications of the Fox administration and the outcome of the 2006 election, reflecting on the volatile immigration issue that has exploded into public debate in the United States.
Presenting the story of US-Mexico relations, this work explains the implications of the Fox administration and the outcome of the 2006 election, refle...
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120,00 zł |
El Paso and the Mexican Revolution
ISBN: 9781531656454 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mexican Revolution took place along the entire length of the border between the United States and Mexico. Most of the intense battles and revolutionary intrigue, however, were concentrated in the border region of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. For 20 years, the U.S. and Mexico border communities dealt with revolution, beginning before the 1909 Taft-Diaz visit and ending with the Escobar Revolution of 1929. In between were battles, assassinations, invasions, and attempts at diplomacy. El Paso was center stage for many of these events. Newspapers and media from all over the...
The Mexican Revolution took place along the entire length of the border between the United States and Mexico. Most of the intense battles and revoluti...
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137,38 zł |
Painted Words: Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism
ISBN: 9780884024187 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Painted Words presents a facsimile, decipherment, and analysis of a seventeenth-century pictographic catechism from colonial Mexico, preserved as Fonds Mexicain 399 at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Works in this genre present the Catholic catechism in pictures that were read sign by sign as aids to memorization and oral performance. They have long been understood as a product of the experimental techniques of early evangelization, but this study shows that they are better understood as indigenous expressions of devotional knowledge. In addition to inventive pictography... Painted Words presents a facsimile, decipherment, and analysis of a seventeenth-century pictographic catechism from colonial Mexico, preserv... |
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315,68 zł |
Cuban Émigrés and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World
ISBN: 9781469631974 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically active Cuban diaspora around the Gulf of Mexico. Offering a new transnational vantage on Cuba's struggle for nationhood, Muller traces the stories of three hundred of these Cuban emigres and explores the impact of their lives of exile, service to the revolution and independence, and...
During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to...
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601,51 zł |
Cuban Émigrés and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World
ISBN: 9781469631981 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically active Cuban diaspora around the Gulf of Mexico. Offering a new transnational vantage on Cuba's struggle for nationhood, Muller traces the stories of three hundred of these Cuban emigres and explores the impact of their lives of exile, service to the revolution and independence, and...
During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to...
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175,86 zł |
International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
ISBN: 9780195327687 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in history." The event drew an all-star cast of characters, including Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and US feminist Betty Friedan, as well as a motley array of policymakers, activists, and journalists. International Women's Year, the first book to examine this critical moment in feminist...
Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week ...
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189,39 zł |
Primeros Memoriales Part II
ISBN: 9780806157498 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Primeros Memoriales is published here for the first time in its entirety both in the original Nahuatl and in English translation. The volume follows the manuscript order reconstructed for the Primeros Memoriales by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso in his 1905-1907 facsimile edition of the collection of Sahaguntine manuscripts he called Codices Matritenses. During the 1960s, Thelma D. Sullivan, a Nahuatl scholar living in Mexico, began a paleographic transcription of the Primeros Memoriales, along with an English translation. After Sullivan s death in... Primeros Memoriales is published here for the first time in its entirety both in the original Nahuatl and in English translation. The ... |
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246,49 zł |
Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain
ISBN: 9780806156972 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this biography of Joaquin de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776-1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served in Napoleon's army, pirates, and various American Indian groups, all attempting to wrest control of the region. Often resorting to violence to deal with the provinces' problems, Arredondo was for...
In this biography of Joaquin de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American ...
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128,63 zł |
A Sign Catalog: Glyphs in Selected Text-Like Layouts at Teotihuacan
ISBN: 9781407313122 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 38 This volume closely examines and catalogs a limited set of glyphic elements found at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan in Mexico. This study serves as an initial investigation to verify whether these glyphs may be part of a writing system in use at the site. The author looks at two specific sources of glyphs and glyph compounds at Teotihuacan that appear to be the largest sets of co-occurring glyphs and contain the largest number of glyphs. One set, in particular, has not yet been studied in detail and therefore will present new... Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 38 This volume closely examines and catalogs a limited set of glyphic elements found at the archaeol... |
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207,51 zł |