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Mexico S New Cultural History

Author : Gilbert M. Joseph,Susan Deans-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822364956

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Mexico S New Cultural History by Gilbert M. Joseph,Susan Deans-Smith Pdf

In this special issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review, the editors stepped outside the sometimes narrow confines of technical academic writing. They sought contributors who were willing to dive into an honest, open discussion of Mexico's cultural history. The result is a vigorous, complex, innovative, and occasionally humorous discussion of the pros and cons of a new cultural historical approach to Mexican history. All the contributors to this issue agree on the importance and relevance of a historical study of culture in its most inclusive sense. But there is much less consensus about the promise and potential of a "new cultural history" of Mexico and Latin America. While some of the contributors celebrate new interpretive and methodological advances, others express concern about the dangers of overinterpretation, untoward speculation, and the imposition of postmodernist concepts. Contributors and topics covered include: Susan Deans-Smith and Gilbert M. Joseph on the Arena of Dispute Eric Van Young on the New Cultural History William E. French on Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Mexico Mary Kay Vaughan on Cultural Approaches to Peasant Politics in the Mexican Revolution Stephen Haber on Mexico's "New" Cultural History Florencia E. Mallon on Cycles of Revisionism Susan Migden Socolow on Putting the "Cult" in Culture Claudio Lomnitz on the Politics of the "New Cultural History of Mexico"

Fragments of a Golden Age

Author : Gilbert M. Joseph,Anne Rubenstein,Eric Zolov
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822383123

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Fragments of a Golden Age by Gilbert M. Joseph,Anne Rubenstein,Eric Zolov Pdf

During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume’s contributors—historians, popular writers, anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics—weigh in on a wealth of topics from music, tourism, television, and sports to theatre, unions, art, and magazines. Each essay in its own way addresses the fragmentation of a cultural consensus that prevailed during the “golden age” of post–revolutionary prosperity, a time when the state was still successfully bolstering its power with narratives of modernization and shared community. Combining detailed case studies—both urban and rural—with larger discussions of political, economic, and cultural phenomena, the contributors take on such topics as the golden age of Mexican cinema, the death of Pedro Infante as a political spectacle, the 1951 “caravan of hunger,” professional wrestling, rock music, and soap operas. Fragments of a Golden Age will fill a particular gap for students of modern Mexico, Latin American studies, cultural studies, political economy, and twentieth century history, as well as to others concerned with rethinking the cultural dimensions of nationalism, imperialism, and modernization. Contributors. Steven J. Bachelor, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Seth Fein, Alison Greene, Omar Hernández, Jis & Trino, Gilbert M. Joseph, Heather Levi, Rubén Martínez, Emile McAnany, John Mraz, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Elena Poniatowska, Anne Rubenstein, Alex Saragoza, Arthur Schmidt, Mary Kay Vaughan, Eric Zolov

A Companion to Mexican History and Culture

Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444340587

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A Companion to Mexican History and Culture by William H. Beezley Pdf

A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present. Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholars Essays are separated into sections on the four major chronological eras Discusses recent historical interpretations with critical historiographical sources, and is enriched by cultural analysis, ethnic and gender studies, and visual evidence The first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis This book is the receipient of the 2013 Michael C. Meyer Special Recognition Award from the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies.

China

Author : Cho-yun Hsu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231528184

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China by Cho-yun Hsu Pdf

An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's written history and extending through the twentieth century, Hsu follows the content and expansion of Chinese culture, describing the daily lives of commoners, their spiritual beliefs and practices, the changing character of their social and popular thought, and their advances in material culture and technology. In addition to listing the achievements of emperors, generals, ministers, and sages, Hsu builds detailed accounts of these events and their everyday implications. Dynastic change, the rise and fall of national ambitions, and the growth and decline of institutional systems take on new significance through Hsu's careful research, which captures the multiple strands that gave rise to China's pluralistic society. Paying particular attention to influential relationships occurring outside of Chinese cultural boundaries, he demonstrates the impact of foreign influences on Chinese culture and identity and identifies similarities between China's cultural developments and those of other nations.

Fragments of a Golden Age

Author : Gilbert M. Joseph,Anne Rubenstein,Eric Zolov
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 082232718X

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Fragments of a Golden Age by Gilbert M. Joseph,Anne Rubenstein,Eric Zolov Pdf

DIVThe first cultural history of post-1940s Mexico to relate issues of representation and meaning to questions of power; it includes essays on popular music, unions, TV, tourism, cinema, wrestling, and illustrated magazines./div

Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North

Author : Susan M. Deeds
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292782303

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Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North by Susan M. Deeds Pdf

Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2004 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2003 In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico—the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras. Yet, when the colonial era ended two centuries later, only the Tepehuanes and Tarahumaras remained as distinct peoples, the other groups having disappeared or blended into the emerging mestizo culture of the northern frontier. Why were these two indigenous peoples able to maintain their group identity under conditions of conquest, while the others could not? In this book, Susan Deeds constructs authoritative ethnohistories of the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras to explain why only two of the five groups successfully resisted Spanish conquest and colonization. Drawing on extensive research in colonial-era archives, Deeds provides a multifaceted analysis of each group's past from the time the Spaniards first attempted to settle them in missions up to the middle of the eighteenth century, when secular pressures had wrought momentous changes. Her masterful explanations of how ethnic identities, subsistence patterns, cultural beliefs, and gender relations were forged and changed over time on Mexico's northern frontier offer important new ways of understanding the struggle between resistance and adaptation in which Mexico's indigenous peoples are still engaged, five centuries after the "Spanish Conquest."

Cultural Politics in Revolution

Author : Mary K. Vaughan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0816516766

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Cultural Politics in Revolution by Mary K. Vaughan Pdf

"Innovative study of the cultural legacy of the Mexican Revolution, using the story of rural schools. Focuses on Puebla and Sonora and the attempt by the central government to implement socialist education and to advance its nationalist agenda. Stresses the importance of negotiation among national and local leaders, teachers and peasants"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Mexico City

Author : Nick Caistor
Publisher : Signal Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 190266907X

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Mexico City by Nick Caistor Pdf

A cultural guide to the Mexico City.

Culture Across Borders

Author : David Maciel,Mar’a Herrera-Sobek
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816518335

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Culture Across Borders by David Maciel,Mar’a Herrera-Sobek Pdf

For as long as Mexicans have emigrated to the United States they have responded creatively to the challenges of making a new home. But although historical, sociological, and other aspects of Mexican immigration have been widely studied, its cultural and artistic manifestations have been largely overlooked by scholars—even though Mexico has produced the greatest number of cultural works inspired by the immigration process. And recently Chicana/o artists have addressed immigration as a central theme in their cultural productions and motifs. Culture across Borders is the first and only book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the immigration experience, including art, literature, cinema, corridos, and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular culture both in Mexico and the United States—and how Mexican and Chicano/Chicana artists, intellectuals, and others have used artistic means to protest the unjust treatment of immigrants by U.S. authorities. Established and upcoming scholars from both sides of the border contribute their expertise in art history, literary criticism, history, cultural studies, and other fields, capturing the many facets of the immigrant experience in popular culture. Topics include the difference between Chicano/a and Mexican representation of immigration; how films dealing with immigrants are treated differently by Mexican, Chicano, and Hollywood producers; the rich literary and artistic production on immigration themes; and the significance of immigration in Chicano jokes. As a first step in addressing the cultural dimensions of Mexican immigration to the United States, this book captures how the immigration process has inspired powerful creative responses on both sides of the border.

The Yaquis

Author : Edward Holland Spicer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Yaqui Indians
ISBN : 9780816505883

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This study is based on a thirty-month residence in Yaqui communities in both Arizona and Sonora and consists of integrating information from documented historical writing, of some primary source documents, of three centuries of contemporary descriptions of Yaqui customs and individuals, and of anthropological studies based on direct observation.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture

Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 2360 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 019068089X

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture by William H. Beezley Pdf

In 129 articles, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture provides a compendium of Mexico's historical experience. An international group of authors that includes leading Mexican scholars examines politics, economics, biography, environment, gender, culture, and digital resources for the study of Mexican history.

The Other Rebellion

Author : Eric Van Young
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0804748217

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The Other Rebellion by Eric Van Young Pdf

This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an intensely localized struggle by rural people, especially Indians, for the preservation of their communities.

The Mestizo State

Author : Joshua Lund
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816656363

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The Mestizo State by Joshua Lund Pdf

The wide-ranging relations between race and cultural production in modern Mexico

Mexico at the World's Fairs

Author : Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520301078

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Mexico at the World's Fairs by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Pdf

This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted—with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History

Author : Roberto Cantú
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527568648

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Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History by Roberto Cantú Pdf

This volume brings together a number of critical essays on three selected topics: biography, nationhood, and globalism. Written exclusively for this book by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the United States, the essays propose a reexamination of Mexican American cultural history from a twenty-first century standpoint, written in English and approached from different analytical models and critical methods, but free of theoretical jargon. The essays range from biographies and memoirs by leading Chicano historians and studies of globalism during the rule of Imperial Spain (1492-1898), to the modern rise and global influence of the United States, particularly in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Also included are critical studies of novels by Chicano, Latin American, and Caribbean writers who narrate and represent the dominant role played by the United States both within the nation itself and in the Caribbean, thus illustrating the historical parallels and relations that bind Latinos and Americans of Mexican descent. This book will be of importance to literary historians, literary critics, teachers, students, and readers interested in stimulating and unconventional studies of Mexican American cultural history from a global perspective.