Gringo Rebel

Author : Ivor Thord-Gray
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781839740565

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Gringo Rebel by Ivor Thord-Gray Pdf

Gringo Rebel, first published in 1960, is the account of Swedish-born adventurer Ivor Thord-Gray of his time in 1913-1914 in revolutionary Mexico. Thord-Gray first served as an artillery officer in Francisco 'Pancho' Villa’s forces, and later served as a cavalry officer in Carranza’s army under Obregón. He formed close bonds with his Yaqui and Tarahumara scouts, and later prepared a Tarahumara-English Dictionary, and other books about Mexican archaeology. Gringo Rebel offers a first-hand look at the poorly understood conflict in Mexico between the wealthy ruling class and the large majority of land-less peasants living in slave-like conditions, as well as insights into rebel leaders such as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata (leader of the 'Zapatistas'). Seventeen pages of illustrations are included in this new edition.

Author : I. Thord-Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Mexico
ISBN : OCLC:28194812

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Gringo Rebel by I. Thord-Gray Pdf

Author : Alan Knight
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803277717

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The Mexican Revolution: Counter-revolution and reconstruction by Alan Knight Pdf

Volume 2 of The Mexican Revolution begins with the army counter-revolution of 1913, which ended Francisco Madero's liberal experiment and installed Victoriano Huerta's military rule. After the overthrow of the brutal Huerta, Venustiano Carranza came to the forefront, but his provisional government was opposed by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, who come powefully to life in Alan Knight's book. Knight offers a fresh interpretation of the great schism of 1914-15, which divided the revolution in its moment of victory, and which led to the final bout of civil war between the forces of Villa and Carranza. By the end of this brilliant study of a popular uprising that deteriorated into political self-seeking and vengeance, nearly all the leading players have been assassinated. In the closing pages, Alan Knight ponders the essential question: what had the revolution changed? His two-volume history, at once dramatic and scrupulously documented, goes against the grain of traditional assessments of the "last great revolution."

Author : Robert L. Scheina
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574885132

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Villa by Robert L. Scheina Pdf

Analyzes the raucous career of one of the Mexican Revolution's central figures

Author : Samuel Brunk
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826316204

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Emiliano Zapata! by Samuel Brunk Pdf

This clearly written and carefully argued narrative presents a less mythical and more human Zapata against the dramatic and chaotic background of the Mexican Revolution.

Author : Emil Willimetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114378461

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Gringo by Emil Willimetz Pdf

A memoir of an unconventional life, this work offers both general readers and scholars a journey behind the lines of the Great Depression, combat in Normandy and northern Germany, early civil rights and labor organizing in the south.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : LCCN:76218627

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REBEL. by Anonim Pdf

Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0786482575

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Wars of Latin America, 1899Ð1941 by René De La Pedraja Pdf

The years 1899 through 1941 are remarkable even by Latin America’s uniquely turbulent standards. During this time, border disputes and domestic insurrections forcefully shaped the history of this area, as many countries made the rocky transition from agrarian to industrial societies. This volume provides a concise survey of Latin American wars between 1899 and 1941. It compares and contrasts the wars and considers them in light of military theory. It also demonstrates how instrumental wars have been in directing the history of Latin America, and how the United States has often influenced these wars in a decisive manner. Wars examined include border disputes in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, and Costa Rica, and domestic insurrections in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Numerous photographs and maps illustrate the text and make it easy to follow every military campaign. The vivid narrative captures the human drama of the wars and brings to life the violent clashes of powerful personalities in unusually hostile terrain. Jungles, mountains, and deserts ravaged armies no less dramatically than combat, and the emotions the wars released make many episodes unforgettable. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Roberto Cantú
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443893213

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Equestrian Rebels by Roberto Cantú Pdf

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 1873–1952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexico’s Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished member of El Colegio Nacional and, by mid-century, one of Mexico’s leading novelists and literary critics. The author of novels, novellas, plays, biographies, and literary criticism, Azuela served as field doctor under Francisco Villa during the Mexican Revolution and, after Villa’s military defeats in 1915, published Los de abajo (The Underdogs, 1915) while in exile in El Paso, Texas. This book of essays commemorates the first centenary of Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution. Equestrian Rebels: Critical Perspectives on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution includes a full-length introduction and nineteen essays by leading international scholars who study Azuela and other novelists of the Mexican Revolution – such as Martín Luis Guzmán, Nellie Campobello and, among others, José Rubén Romero – from current, yet contrasting and innovative theoretical perspectives. Especially written for this volume, these critical essays are grouped into five sections that separately probe and analyze Azuela’s realism and contemporary affinities with photography; Azuela’s literary criticism; centennial studies on Los de abajo; critical approaches to other novels by Azuela; three independent analyses of Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho (1931); and a concluding section on literary representations of Mexican colonialism and revolution in the narratives of Juan Rulfo (El llano en llamas), Carlos Fuentes (Gringo viejo), and David Toscana (El último lector). This book will be of importance to scholars, teachers, students, and the general reader interested in topics related to the literary, cultural, and political forces and conflicts that led to the transformation of Mexico into a modern nation.

Author : John Mraz
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780826501462

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History and Modern Media by John Mraz Pdf

In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and function. He developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is tested here through examining two genres: Indianist imagery as an expression of imperial, neo-colonizing, and decolonizing photography, and progressive photography as embodied in worker and laborist imagery, as well as feminist and decolonizing visuality. The book interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way of showing and describing the past in films and photographs, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several US universities. More importantly, he reflects on what it has meant to move to Mexico and become a Mexican. Mexico is home to a thriving school of photohistorians perhaps unequaled in the world. Some were trained in art history, and a few continue to pursue that discipline. However, the great majority work from the discipline known as "photohistory" which focuses on vernacular photographs made outside of artistic intentions. A central premise of the book is that knowing the cultures of the past and of the other is crucial in societies dominated by short-term and parochial thinking, and that today's hyper-audiovisuality requires historians to use modern media to offer their knowledge as alternatives to the "perpetual present" in which we live.

Author : Héctor Tobar
Publisher : MCD
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374720407

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The Last Great Road Bum by Héctor Tobar Pdf

One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookville’s Favorite Books of 2020. In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a “road bum,” an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts, acclaimed novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum. A decade ago, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson, which chart Sanderson’s freewheeling course across the known world, from Illinois to Jamaica, to Vietnam, to Nigeria, to El Salvador—a life determinedly an adventure, ending in unlikely, anonymous heroism. The Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written, but did truly live—a fascinating, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Héctor Tobar could pull off.

Author : David F. Marley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610694285

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Mexico at War by David F. Marley Pdf

A comprehensive overview of Mexico's military history from 1810 to the present day, including rare facts and information not found online. Mexico's past is riddled with stories of struggle—military battles, internal rebellions, revolutions, and drug wars. This in-depth reference provides a complete military history of that country since its War of Independence in 1810 through the present day. From the evolution of combat in the region, to the motivations and tensions behind recurrent conflicts, to the dubious beginnings of drug gangs and warlords, this is the only book of its kind to explore Mexican warfare in such great depth. This detailed study consists of an alphabetical compilation of roughly 300 entries dealing with different facets of hostile encounters throughout the country's history. In addition to covering key places and people, regional expert and author David F. Marley offers unique insights into more obscure topics such as the 1913 aerial bombardments at the port of Guaymas, visits from American luminaries, colorful Mexican military slang, and the songs that identify various political factions. The work includes a host of important historical documents, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography to encourage further research on the subject.

Author : Alan Knight
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803277725

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The Mexican Revolution by Alan Knight Pdf

"v. 1. Porfirians, liberals, and peasants -- v. 2. Counter-revolution and reconstruction."

Author : Lyle Brandt
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628158403

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Rebel Gun by Lyle Brandt Pdf

The Epic Western by the Author of Vengeance Gun The hunter becomes the hunted... The Civil War is over. The American West is on the mend, but turmoil still brews south of the border. And one man 's search for peace finds him the subject of a Mexican manhunt. Matthew Price is weary of the trail, lies tired He’s tired of living by the gun—tired of finding trouble everywhere he rides. So when he recognizes the face plastered on a public execution notice in a tiny Mexican village, He's tempted to turn His back and hightail it out of town. But the man pictured is Gray Wolf, the Apache to whom he owes his life. Matt knows it's time for him to return the favor. Breaking Gray Wolf out of jail is the easy part. Soon Matt discovers that by setting free his compadre’s cellmate, he has also released the federales’ greatest threat: fierce resistance leader Cesar Zapata de León. Running with the revolutionary means that this time Matt has more than a bounty at stake. Now the price is on his head.

Author : Andrea Tang
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781984835116

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Rebelwing by Andrea Tang Pdf

"Mixing everything that's best about dragons, dystopia, and generational conflict, Tang delivers a high flying debut that pulls no punches." --E.K. Johnston, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Things just got weird for Prudence Wu. One minute, she's cashing in on a routine smuggling deal. The next, she's escaping enforcers on the wings of what very much appears to be a sentient cybernetic dragon. Pru is used to life throwing her some unpleasant surprises--she goes to prep school, after all, and selling banned media across the border in a country with a ruthless corporate government obviously has its risks. But a cybernetic dragon? That's new. She tries to forget about the fact that the only reason she's not in jail is because some sort of robot saved her, and that she's going to have to get a new side job now that enforcers are on to her. So she's not exactly thrilled when Rebelwing shows up again. Even worse, it's become increasingly clear that the rogue machine has imprinted on her permanently, which means she'd better figure out this whole piloting-a-dragon thing--fast. Because Rebelwing just happens to be the ridiculously expensive weapon her government needs in a brewing war with its neighbor, and Pru's the only one who can fly it. Set in a wonderfully inventive near-future Washington, D.C., this hilarious, defiant debut sparkles with wit and wisdom, deftly exploring media consumption, personal freedoms, and the weight of one life as Pru, rather reluctantly, takes to the skies.