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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1563
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473062025
Author : Rebecca West
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781453206775
A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers Dame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition. West tackles the country’s broad historical legacy—the Spanish conquest and Mexican revolution, the muralist movement, race relations, and contemporary life—and delves into the personal, intimate lives of key figures such as Hernán Cortés, Montezuma, Dr. Atl, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky. Conceived as a companion to West’s masterful classic Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, this book showcases the complexity of West’s character, addresses the paradoxes inherent in her work, and allows for a mature understanding of her ideology. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rebecca West featuring rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, McFarlin Library, at the University of Tulsa.
Author : Ernestina Sodi
Publisher : Phoenix Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781614670155
Every year, an estimated 5,000 people are kidnapped for ransom in Mexico. Since few kidnappings are ever reported to police for fear of reprisals, the terrifying ordeal that survivors endure has remained a mystery—until now. On September 22, 2002, Mexican writer Ernestina Sodi and her sister, actress Laura Zapata, were kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico City. Both victims are members of the prominent Sodi family; their younger sister is Thalia, an international pop sensation, and the wife of billionaire music mogul Tommy Mottola. Tragically, it was Mottola's glaring fortune which caught the attention of the abductors, making the sisters' kidnapping the most widely publicized in recent memory.
Author : Nicholas Caistor
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781789141108
Mexico City has always been a seat of empire. With its grandiose pretensions, sheer swagger, and staggering proportions, it gives the impression of power exercised over great time and distances. And yet this power has frequently been contested, lending the city a tough, battle-hardened look. At the same time, life in the Mexican capital can be carefree and intoxicating, and the city continues to offer any visitor not only glimpses of past grandeur, but of the fascinating wealth of the culture of Mexico today. This book explores how the city has grown and evolved from the Tenochtitlan city-state of the Aztecs to the capital of the Spanish empire’s “New Spain,” French intervention, revolution, and the newly branded CDMX. Nick Caistor leads us through centuries of history and into the material city of today: from recently constructed museums and shopping malls, to neighborhoods where age-old traditions still appear to be the norm. Whether sampling ice cream at Xochimilco, watching freestyle wrestling at the Arena Mexico, or savoring long Mexican breakfasts, Nick Caistor reveals why Mexico City continues to fascinate and beguile us.
Author : Richard Hill,Peter Hogg
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1611865026
For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would better survive the tropical diseases that so terribly afflicted European soldiers. In both cases, the Africans did indeed fulfill these expectations. The mixture of cultures embodied by this event has piqued the interest of several historians, so it is by no means unknown. Hill and Hogg provide a particularly thorough account of this exotic interlude, explaining its background, looking in detail at the battle record in Mexico, and figuring out who exactly made up the battalion. Much in their account is odd and interesting, for example, the Sudanese superiority to Austrian troops and their festive nine-day spree in Paris on the emperor's tab. The authors also assess the episode's longer-term impact on the Sudan, showing that the veterans of Mexico, having learnt much from their extended exposure to French military practices, rose quickly in the ranks, then taught these methods to others.
Author : George F. Flaherty
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520291072
In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects built by the government in Mexico City mirrored the country’s rapid but uneven modernization. In the same year, a street-savvy democratization movement led by students emerged in the city. Throughout the summer, the ‘68 Movement staged protests underscoring a widespread sense of political disenfranchisement. Just ten days before the Olympics began, nearly three hundred student protestors were massacred by the military in a plaza at the core of a new public housing complex. In spite of institutional denial and censorship, the 1968 massacre remains a touchstone in contemporary Mexican culture thanks to the public memory work of survivors and Mexico’s leftist intelligentsia. In this highly original study of the afterlives of the ’68 Movement, George F. Flaherty explores how urban spaces—material but also literary, photographic, and cinematic—became an archive of 1968, providing a framework for de facto modes of justice for years to come.
Author : Navras J. Aafreedi,Priya Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000381313
Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content, and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner. The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the twentieth century to the present. The volume studies ‘consciously enforced mass violence’ through an interdisciplinary approach and suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass violence in the global context. The volume is essential reading for postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global Studies.
Author : Associated Veterans of the Mexican War. National Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU54299640
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : UGA:32108053598408
Author : Nathaniel Morris
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816541027
The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the Díaz dictatorship in support of agrarian reform, in defense of their political autonomy, or inspired by a nationalist desire to forge a new Mexico. However, in the Gran Nayar, a rugged expanse of mountains and canyons, the story was more complex, as the region’s four Indigenous peoples fought both for and against the revolution and the radical changes it bought to their homeland. To make sense of this complex history, Nathaniel Morris offers the first systematic understanding of the participation of the Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples in the Mexican Revolution. They are known for being among the least “assimilated” of all Mexico’s Indigenous peoples. It’s often been assumed that they were stuck up in their mountain homeland—“the Gran Nayar”—with no knowledge of the uprisings, civil wars, military coups, and political upheaval that convulsed the rest of Mexico between 1910 and 1940. Based on extensive archival research and years of fieldwork in the rugged and remote Gran Nayar, Morris shows that the Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples were actively involved in the armed phase of the revolution. This participation led to serious clashes between an expansionist, “rationalist” revolutionary state and the highly autonomous communities and heterodox cultural and religious practices of the Gran Nayar’s inhabitants. Morris documents confrontations between practitioners of subsistence agriculture and promoters of capitalist development, between rival Indian generations and political factions, and between opposing visions of the world, of religion, and of daily life. These clashes produced some of the most severe defeats that the government’s state-building programs suffered during the entire revolutionary era, with significant and often counterintuitive consequences both for local people and for the Mexican nation as a whole.
Author : Associated Veterans of the Mexican War
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : United States
ISBN : CHI:47415143
Author : Francisco E. Balderrama,Raymond Rodríguez
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0826339735
Examines the social and economic effects on the migrant Mexican families subjected to forced relocation by the United States during the 1930s.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11469633
Author : United States. Pension Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Military pensions
ISBN : OSU:32435062852538
Author : Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647921514
“Through its rich and fascinating collection of documents, Mexico, Slavery, Freedom offers a much-needed window into Mexico’s long history of slavery that will leave readers wanting to learn and discover more. Sierra Silva brilliantly guides his readers through the maze of Mexican archival resources. . . . Through his careful content curation, readers will discover how corruption and discrimination led to persistent enslavement of indigenous Mesoamerican and transpacific peoples despite royal orders to abolish the practice. . . . The rich, detailed-packed introductions--to the book in general and to each chapter--are nonetheless succinct and to the point. Sierra Silva’s . . . editorial approach proves that information and interpretative points are better served in small portions. The documents themselves are the main course. Sierra Silva also recognizes the importance of giving readers both English and Spanish versions of each document in the book. These bilingual transcriptions make Mexico, Slavery, Freedom an equally valuable resource for course instruction in predominantly English-speaking environments, bilingual classrooms, and Spanish-centered courses.” —Mariana Dantas, Ohio University This is the first volume to provide, in dual-language format, selections from primary texts related to the experiences of enslaved Africans, Asians, and their descendants in colonial Mexico.